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Florence, February 18, 2021 – There are 956 new positives to COVID-19 in Tuscany as anticipated by President Eugenio Giani on Facebook. 21,027 tests were performed, of which 12,902 molecular swabs and 8,125 rapid tests, with a new positive rate of 4.55% (8.5% in the first diagnoses). The data of the new cases is higher than yesterday (they were 773), with a substantial stability of the tests (they were 20,725), so an increase in the rate of positives is observed (it was 3.73%).
Among the cases of yesterday instead 13 were discovered among the students of a school in Monteroni d’Arbia, in the province of Siena: among these one would have been beaten by Brazilian variant. Meanwhile, the Region has the InfoCovid regional center has been strengthened at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence: forty telephone lines to give directions and support to all citizens, with young employees who will give answers about vaccines and health emergencies. / Covid Toscana newsletter, read all the issues
Brazilian variant in a school in Siena
“Immediate closure” of all schools of all levels in Monteroni d’Arbia, a town a few kilometers from Siena, run by Mayor Gabriele Berni, after the presence of cases of positivity to the Brazilian variant of the coronavirus, of which he was informed this morning. The order also decided to interrupt group sports activities.
“Vaccines, yes, buy independently, but beware of repairmen”
“I am absolutely in favor” of autonomously buying anti-Covid vaccines “where possible”, but “to date, after a month of talking about it, I have not seen anything concrete. In fact, I’ve seen research on fixers playing this parallel vaccine market game. ” Affirmed it Eugenio Giani, President of the Tuscany Region, at the presentation of the InfoCovid service.
In rsa a new cuddle room
“Embrace: the courage to let go of oneself and give it to others.” It’s the writing that you read on the mobile structure, with two pairs of heart-shaped portholes, which was installed in the ‘Santa Maria Assunta’ sanitary residence in Santa Maria del Giudice (Lucca), to finally enable safe contact between guests and their loved ones.
“In Tuscany we are 100% monitoring”
“A total of five hundred young markers have allowed Tuscany to get to 100 percent monitoring: the region is in 13th place in real fatality rates, presence in intensive care and in Covid rooms. We are among the most virtuous regions, the best situation among all the realities of the central north. “This was stated by the president of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, speaking with Infocovid in Florence.
Covid info on the phone, here is the number
Information on the vaccination campaign, innovative citizen service system, guidance on covid issues. Infocovid is the new regional service – Infocovid number 055/9077777– that on its first day of activity it registered around a thousand phone calls. Renewed and strengthened with the integration of 79 students from medical schools or courses of the health professions, the service is available to all Tuscans for information on vaccines, buffers, quarantines; the call center is active every day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Giani’s advances
The data had been anticipated as usual by the president of the Region Eugenio Giani on Facebook. The swabs in 24 hours reached 20 thousand between the molecular and the fast ones. The rate of positivity in the first swabs dates back to e touches 7.6%. It is a figure that fluctuates from day to day (yesterday it was 5.9%).
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Giani: “With the summer things will improve”
With the summer things will improve, there will be less spread of covid ”. The President of the Region says so Eugenio Giani talking about the coronavirus infection in Tuscany. The curve descends, albeit irregularly. The situation throughout the region it remains uncertain, also in light of the variants of the covid that concern the greater ease of contagion. Reread the live broadcast of the previous day
On Tuesday, February 16, 444 new cases were registered, with a decrease in the rate of positivity, that is, the positives in the first swabs performed. On Tuesday, there were also 15 deaths in Tuscany.
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Giani: “It’s about resisting 2-3 months”
“We have passed the middle of February, the same days in which last year we met the Coronavirus and we lived moments of total blockage until the heat of late April-early May that took us to a new stage. That is why I tell everyone, especially young people who are impatient, it is a matter of resisting these two and a half or three months. This is what the president of the Region Eugenio Giani said.
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Vaccines continue
The 200 thousand vaccinations have been exceeded in Tuscany. Administrations continue to the different categories admitted: the first phase of vaccinations, that of health professionals, is completed, while the vaccination of teachers and armed forces between 18 and 55 years old and those over 80 years old is in full swing, for which family physicians will contact each patient.
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Screening at school
There are 13,000 rapid swabs to detect the presence of Coronavirus that were donated by the Cr Firenze Foundation to the Northwest Municipalities of Florence, which includes the territories of Calenzano, Campi Bisenzio, Lastra a Signa, Scandicci, Sesto Fiorentino, Signa and Vaglia. The purpose of the donation is to improve the monitoring of infections in schools, from centers for young children to secondary schools, for a total of around 25,000 students between public and private institutions.
Variants of the covid, which are more contagious, are also a cause for concern in Tuscany. This was underlined by the regional health agency, which foresees an orange zone that will remain in Tuscany for about a month.
The island of Giglio is once again free of covid
Il Giglio is once again a covid free territory. “Good news that reassures the municipality and that comes during a period of great criticality for Tuscany and for the whole country – said the mayor Sergio Ortelli – The asymptomatic resident girl, who contracted the infection outside the Giglio area, is now negative.
Intensive care, complex situation in 4 regions
There are four Italian autonomous regions and provinces that exceed the 30% occupancy threshold for Covid patients, defined as “critical” by the Ministry of Health. The most worrying data arrives from Umbria with 60%, followed by Friuli Venezia Giulia which stands at 35%, Autonomous province of Bolzano with 40%, and Market 34%. This is what emerges from the latest data, updated last night, by the Health Services Agency (Agenas), which shows a national average figure, quite stable for days, at 24%.
Siena, vaccination parties for people over 80
Vaccination of people over eighty years of age in the province of Siena began on Tuesday, February 16. In the Arca medical center there were six people to receive the administration, the first in Tuscany in the phase that will involve those over 80. For this, the councilor for the Right to Health and Health of the Region was present, Simone bezzini. “The idea behind the agreement with general practitioners – said Councilor Bezzini – is to offer multiple vaccination channels, together with those activated by the health authorities of the area, to diversify the offer according to the recipients and reach the largest number of people possible. The doses for now are in moderate numbers, but when they arrive in larger quantities we will have a well-established network ready to carry out tens of thousands of vaccinations every day throughout the region. ”
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