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New cases fall, the rate of positivity decreases, the victims and current positives decrease, but also the occupied places of Covid in hospitals. In Sicily, after days of stagnation, the figures published today by the Ministry of Health bulletin are encouraging. The new infected are 872 of the 9,353 processed tampons (9.3% of the percentage of positives, yesterday it was 10.6%), the dead instead of 28. In contrast there are 1,332 cured, that is, in the Island the number of people who currently have the virus, which are still 34,688 (488 less than yesterday).
Let’s move on to the hospitals. The number of ordinary hospitalized patients fell dramatically from 1,188 yesterday to 1,131 today (-50), while in intensive care it went from 183 to 179 with ten new admissions daily. The other 33,378 are in home isolation.
Today Palermo is the province with the highest number of infections, 286. It follows Catania (243), Messina (141), Ragusa (40), Trapani (29), Siracusa (49), Agrigento (31), Caltanissetta (23) , Enna (30).
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What will the 2020 Christmas blockade look like?
A new Dpcm, a red zone for eight days and lunches with two family members: Conte’s government is working on the restrictions for all of Italy in force from December 24 to 27 and January 31 to 3. Orange zone possible on other days. The exceptions and a possible decree of law are being debated. “Except”, for now, next weekend (go to the article).
The situation in the rest of Italy
The contagion does not stop: there are 18,236 cases of Coronavirus registered in Italy in the last 24 hours compared to 17,572 yesterday. The number of victims remains dramatically high: 683. The good news of the day is the drop in hospitalized patients with symptoms, -470, and in the balance between admissions and visits to intensive care (-71).
The fact is, 18,000 infections a day does not bode well, as the Christmas holidays approach. Virologists have been insisting for weeks on the need to comply with safety measures and behave with the utmost caution. But more and more white coats believe an increase in new cases since January is almost obvious. It will also be necessary to understand how much the measures that the government is preparing to launch at this time will affect.
Coronavirus: today’s newsletter December 17
New cases: 18,236 (yesterday 17,572)
Swabs (diagnosis and control): 185,320 (yesterday 199,489)
Currently positive: 635,343 (yesterday 645,706)
Hospitalized with symptoms: 26,427, -470 (yesterday 26,897, -445)
Hospitalized in Intensive Care: 2,855, -71 (yesterday 2,926, -77)
Total positive cases: 1,906,377 (yesterday 1,888,144)
Deceased: 67,220, +683 (yesterday 66,537 + 680)
Total discharged / cured: 1,203,814, +27,913 (yesterday 1,175,901)
