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The newsletter of Tuesday December 29, with updates on the dissemination of Coronavirus in Lombardy. In the last 24 hours, 843 of the 11,607 swabs performed were new positive cases. Yesterday the figure was 573 new infections out of a total of 5,486. In total, 4,802,831 swabs have been made in Lombardy since the start of the pandemic. The daily death toll decreases compared to yesterday: there have been 49 deaths in the last 24 hours (there were 42 yesterday), for a total of 24,958 official deaths in Lombardy alone since the start of the pandemic.
The situation in the hospitals of Lombardy
Updates on the situation of hospitalizations and intensive care in Lombardy, essential for monitoring the progress of the epidemic, describe a situation that is still improving. In the last hours the number of hospital admissions has dropped 157 units, bringing the total to 3,634 (yesterday they were 3,791). There is also a decrease in admissions to intensive care units: the balance is 14 patients less than yesterday (when the balance between new admissions and discharges was 4 more hospitalized), for a total of 498 hospitalized people. The number of cured / discharged patients continues to grow, now reaching 393,995: 1,141 people have managed to overcome the disease in the last 24 hours.
The new positives in the provinces
As for the Lombard provinces, there are 256 new positive coronavirus cases in the province of Milan. There are 46 new positives in the province of Monza and Brianza, 68 in the province of Varese, 105 in the province of Brescia, 50 in the province of Como and 74 in the province of Pavia. The province of Bergamo has registered 14 new infections, while 34 in Lecco, 29 new infections in the province of Lodi, 38 in that of Cremona, 42 in the province of Sondrio and 46 in that of Mantua.
The first Italian patient older than 85 years vaccinated
His name is Franco Brioschi, 88, the first Italian over 85 to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The man, a patient at Milan’s Pio Albergo Trivulzio, received the first of two doses against the virus yesterday, Monday, December 28. According to Pat, another 50 people were vaccinated with him: 12 RSA guests and 38 employees. According to the scientific supervisor of the facility Fabrizio Pregliasco, it will be more than 8% of the health personnel to join the vaccination campaign.
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