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Coronavirus, 5 deaths in the last 24 hours in the Prato area. There are 25 new infections
Eight deaths between December 31 and January 1. The number of deaths amounts to 254. Infections reach 10,463. In Tuscany 498 new cases and 20 deaths. The number of hospitalizations increases slightly. Increase your positivity rate. Meanwhile, Tuscany is the first in Italy to administer the vaccine to older RSA hosts.
Eight deaths in two days from coronavirus in the province of Prato: to the three deaths on the last day of 2020, five were added on New Year’s Eve: a man and a woman from Prato, 87 and 88 years old respectively, a man and a woman from Montemurlo, 82 and 90 years old respectively, a man from Vernio, 87 years old; all were admitted to the Santo Stefano hospital. The death toll thus rises to 254. The new infections are instead 25 (17 in Prato, 6 in Montemurlo, one in Poggio a Caiano and one in Vaiano) with a total of 10,463. These are the numbers of the bulletin published today, Saturday, January 2, by the Region to take stock of the progress of the epidemic in Tuscany, where there are 498 new cases – a total of 121,415 – and 20 deaths – a total of 3,720. The latest victims are 12 men and 8 women with an average age of 82 years.
The latest infections came from the analysis of 5,083 swabs – the positivity rate is 9.8 percent. Excluding the control swabs, the subjects tested were 1,963 with a positivity of 25.4 percent, compared to 17 percent the day before. To date, Tuscany has just over 10,000 positive people.
The number of patients in Tuscan hospitals is increasing, although slightly: in total there are 964, 11 more than yesterday; of them, 139 are in intensive care, 4 fewer. In the Prato hospital there are 71 patients in the Covid area and 5 in intensive care.
293 people were declared cured in the last 24 hours: 43 became asymptomatic and 250 were negative on the control swab.
Regarding the vaccination campaign, at 1:00 p.m. today in Tuscany 5,346 administrations were carried out, 1,614 of which in Rsa. Tuscany is the region with the most vaccines in this category: “It is not a question of claiming any primacy – explained the Councilor for Health, Simone Bezzini – but of underlining the choice we made by immediately focusing on older people in the RSA, or more fragile and vulnerable. “
Health workers will be vaccinated on January 8 and the first supply will run out of them. A second supply of vaccines will be delivered between January 4-6 and online reservations will be reopened for personnel involved in phase 1 and who had pre-registered.
