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The number of new cases of coronavirus detected in Sicily in the last 24 hours continues to increase. According to data from the Ministry of Health, today there are 1,391 compared to 7,597 swabs for a positivity rate of 18.3%. Yesterday it was 16.5%. There was also a clear increase in the number of victims: 34 in 24 hours. The total since the beginning of the pandemic is 2,528.
Compared to yesterday, the number of hospitalized patients with symptoms increased, today there are 1,181 (44 more). In Intensive Care there are two other beds occupied for a total of 186 (13 new accesses). Overall, there are 1,367 patients in the hospital with Covid, 46 more than yesterday. The number of people in home isolation also grows, up to 35,211 (yesterday 34,270). The total of positives currently exceeds 36,000 (36,578 to be exact). There are another 370 discharged / healed, bringing the total to 58,132.
This is the division of the new cases by province: Catania 396; Palermo 295; Messina 210; Ragusa 69; Trapani 76; Syracuse 197; Caltanissetta 56; Agrigento 44 and Enna 48.
The trend of infections in the last week
New positives, hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths are increasing. On the other hand, discharges and healed are decreasing. These are the data released on Sunday, January 3, 2021 by the Department of Civil Protection in relation to the health emergency linked to Covid -19 in our region. The data show a general worsening of the pandemic trend. In detail, in the week that just ended, the new positives in Sicily amounted to 6,931, 36.2% more than the previous week, when a 19.8% decrease was registered. Coronavirus, increases the number of new positives in Sicily: 7 thousand in a week. Positive swabs are equivalent to 14.1% of the swabs performed in the week (the previous week they were 10.5%). Regarding the cases analyzed, the percentage of positives in the week was 23.2%, a significant increase compared to 17.0% the previous week.
The stages
“We evaluate the hypothesis for next weekend to apply the red zone measures for holidays and pre-holidays, with the protection of the smallest municipalities to travel”: it is almost one in the morning when the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza formalizes the government’s intentions on the restrictions that will be enacted throughout Italy after Epiphany. The expiration of Decree Law 172/2020, scheduled for January 7, could be extended with an ordinance of the ministry and there are two hypotheses on the ground: keep the measures in force until January 15, expiration date of Legislative Decree 158/2020 and from Dpcm December 3, or return to the yellow zone on January 7 and 8 and then go to the orange or red zone on the weekend of 9 and 10 and then, based on the monitoring of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, assign the zones to the regions starting the following Monday.
