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They rise again, but the new cases of Coronavirus identified in Sicily in the last 24 hours remain below one thousand: they are 932 compared to 9,264 swabs with a positive rate of 10%. (yesterday 894 cases of 8,689 swabs and 10.2% positivity).
Patients with symptoms decrease and are 1,028. The number of beds occupied in intensive care remains stable: 176 with six new entrants (in line with 7 yesterday). In total, 1,204 patients are hospitalized for Covid. While in home isolation there are 32,410 people (yesterday they were 32,257). The total current positives is 33,614. 800 are discharged / cured in the last 24 hours, a figure that brings the total to 51,197. There are ten other victims (for a total of 2,213).
The division of new cases by province: Catania 238, Palermo 150; Messina 241; Ragusa 32; Trapani 85; Syracuse 53; Agrigento 37; Caltanissetta 66 and Enna 30.
The number of positives in Palermo remains stable
The number of positives in Palermo has remained stable in recent days, although in just one month it has increased by almost 2,000 units. This is the table that emerges from the data released by the Municipality of Palermo on the situation throughout the province (updated on December 22). The number of positives remains stable above 9,000 in the city and above 11,000 in the metropolitan area. It went from 7,748 on November 22 to 9,323 on December 22. The peak was reached on December 2 with 9,743 positives.
Safe schools
There are fewer and fewer positive cases among students in Sicily. From the last survey of the regional office of the school, in the last week 429,251 students from 543 schools (93% of the first cycle) were positive for Covid-19 are 957, equal to 0.22% while a week ago the index was 0.28%. The lowest incidence is in kindergarten: 80 out of 93,785 (0.09%), 23 less than seven days ago (-22%). In primary school, the positives were 459 out of 197,998 (0.23%), 122 less (-21%), while in first grade 418 out of 137,468, 150 less (-26%) than a week ago.
At the tampon fair also at Christmas and New Years
There are 54,285 swabs and 3,483 (6.42%) positives found since the start of the activity (last October 30) in the unit set up at the Mediterranean Fair. Yesterday the maximum influx was registered with 1,612 swabs and 130 positives (which were subjected to molecular swabbing as required by the sanitary protocol for definitive verification). The activity at the Fair, carried out in collaboration, among other things, with the Italian Army, will continue uninterrupted throughout the festive period. (The full article)
Vaccines
In Sicily, 685 people will participate in the initial phase of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign that will begin on Sunday, December 27, as well as throughout Europe, with the vaccination day scheduled at the Civic Hospital. Councilor Ruggero Razza: “Phase 1 of the vaccination campaign has been approved by the national Parliament. As is known, it will correspond to health professionals, who are in hospitals, who work more in contact with positive patients and who are involved in ’emergency’. (The full article)
Outbreak at Ingrassia Hospital
The Covid outbreak grows inside the Ingrassia hospital where the total number of infections registered in recent weeks amounts to 33. The latest cases have arisen thanks to antigen control swabs that are performed every 48 hours to slow the advance of the virus. (The full article)
The situation in Italy
In our country, 14,522 new infections by coronavirus have been registered in the last 24 hours, according to updated data from the Ministry of Health and Civil Protection. The deaths more than yesterday were 553: more than 70 thousand victims since the beginning of the emergency.
Currently positive: 598,816
Deaths: 70,395 (+553)
Downloaded / Cured: 1,322,067 (+20,494)
Hospitalized: 27,170 (-465)
Hospitalized in ICU: 2,624 (-63)
Buffers: 25,558,583 (+175,364)
Total cases: 1,991,278 (+14,522, + 0.7%)
The newsletter of December 23 in Italy
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