Tuscany coronavirus, 956 new cases: had not happened in more than two months. Admissions go up

Florence, February 18, 2021 – There are 956 new cases of coronavirus in Tuscany registered on Thursday, February 18. We have to return at the beginning of December to return to figures above those of today. On December 4 in particular, when the cases were 1071. This is the data that comes from the bulletin issued by the Region.

Covid Toscana, the percentage of positives over the total of subjects subjected to swabs

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Both hospitalizations and intensive therapies go back. Just over 12,000 molecular swabs were processed. And the positive rate goes up too in unrolled tampons. The positives currently in Tuscany are now 12,803. Growth cured at 0.4% and reach 128,676.

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The contagion map

There are 40,307 cases in total to date Florence (205 more than yesterday), 12,268 a Meadow (83 more), 12,838 a Pistoia (152 more), 9,256 a Pulp (49 more), 14,928 a Lucca (87 more), 19,254 a Pisa (82 more), 11,356 a Livorno (85 more), 13.101 ad Arezzo (87 more), 7,239 a Siena (109 more), 4,874 a Grosseto (17 more). 555 positive cases were reported in Tuscany, but residing in other regions.

Slight increase due to mean age of new cases

The average age of 956 new positives today is approximately 44 years (17% are under 20 years of age, 24% between 20 and 39 years old, 36% between 40 and 59 years old, 17% between 60 and 79 years old, 6% are 80 years old or more).

Hospitalizations are increasing

The people hospitalized in the beds dedicated to Covid patients today are a total of 861 (25 more than yesterday, plus 3%), 144 in intensive care (7 more than yesterday, plus 5.1%).

The percentage of positives on the swabs.

Today, 12,902 molecular swabs and 8,125 rapid antigenic swabs were performed, of which 4.5% were positive. On the other hand, 11,286 subjects were currently analyzed (with antigenic and / or molecular swabs, excluding control swabs), of which 8.5% were positive.

There are 11 dead

Today there are 11 new deaths: 10 men and a woman with an average age of 77. Regarding the province of residence, the deceased are: 4 in Florence, 2 in Pistoia, 1 in Massa Carrara, 3 in Pisa, 1 in Siena.

The vaccine fee

At 12 noon today a total of 220,650 vaccinations were carried out, 8,153 more than yesterday (+ 3.8%), taking into account that the Companies of the Regional Health System continue throughout the day.