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Milan, February 26, 2021 – New changes in view for Region colors, also in view of the epidemiological worsening: from the Control Room of the Ministry of Health – Iss, meeting today, came the indication to transfer to the orange Lombardy, Piedmont and Marche. There would also be Regions in rosso: the Basilicata, according to the data, and the Molise who requested it. It’s still about preliminary indications: the last word, as always, to Minister Speranza, who should issue the relative ordinances the same day. Land regions that change zones will enter the new from Monday, March 1. Yesterday at the government-local authorities summit, the Minister of Regional Affairs, Mariastella Gelmini, confirmed that in the new Dpcm the color zone system will remain.
Average Rt in Italy at 0.99
In Italy the average contagion rate calculated on symptomatic cases is equal to 0.99 (range 0.93-1.03), as last week, with an upper limit above 1. According to Draft control room weekly monitoring report Ministry of Health: Ten Regions have a punctual Rt greater than 1 (Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Molise, Piedmont, Trento, Tuscany and Umbria), of which one (Basilicata) has an Rt with the lower limit greater than 1.25, compatible with a type 3 scenario. Of the other nine, five have an Rt at the lower limit compatible with a type 2 scenario.
Problem: image deteriorates, epidemic accelerates
Based on data from the ISS, for the fourth consecutive week a worsening in the general level of risk. There are 15 regions / HAPPs with a high or moderate risk. In particular, five Regions (Abruzzo, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont, Umbria) have a lhigh level of risk. There are 10 Regions (compared to 12 in the previous week) with a moderate risk classification (of which five with high probability of progression are high risk in the coming weeks) and six (compared to eight in the previous week ) with low risk. “The epidemic after a slow initial worsening – highlights the draft of the Iss-Ministry of Health report on the weekly monitoring of the Covid-19 epidemic for the week 15-21 February – this week again enters a phase in which clear acceleration in increasing national incidence. They are needed urgent national mitigation measures and specific mitigation and containment interventions in the most extended areas to avoid a rapid overload of health services ”.
“Stay home as long as possible”
For the ISS “it is essential that the population avoid all occasions of contact with people outside their home that are not strictly necessary and stay home as much as you can. We remind them that it is mandatory to adopt rigorous individual behaviors and to respect current sanitary measures regarding the distance and correct use of masks ”.
Lombardy, the most affected region
Yesterday in Lombardy on 4mila contagion and there was a boom in positives in the provinces of Milan and Brescia. In a region that is currently in the yellow zone, there are already some exceptions: the province of Brescia, 8 municipalities of Bergamo and Soncino, in the Cremona area, are in the enhanced orange zone. Meanwhile, Bollate (Milan), Mede and Viggiù are in the red zone. Above all, they are scary virus variants, They have tracked the daily number of infections and hospitalizations in ordinary wards and intensive care. And the risk of experiencing a third wave is not that far off. Athat in Pirellone they seem to be aware that the panorama is changing, for the worse. “In Brescia there is a third wave. We must act immediately, ”said Guido Bertolaso, the coordinator chosen by the Fontana board for the vaccination campaign on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the governor of the region, Attilio Fontana, made the proposal: “Far get more shots, so that there is one CSign immediately in those territories where the virus is growing. Let’s stop it. “
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