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In the last 24 hours in Italy, 20,884 new positive cases of coronavirus and 347 deaths from COVID-19 have been detected. There are currently 22,174 patients (277 more than yesterday), of which 2,411 in intensive care units (84 more than yesterday) and 19,763 in the other wards (193 more than yesterday). 192,341 molecular swabs and 166,543 rapid antigenic tests were analyzed. The percentage of positive molecular swabs was 9.5 percent, while that of antigen tests was 1.6 percent. On Tuesday, the registered infections had been 17,083 and 343 deaths.
The regions that have registered the most cases in the last 24 hours are Lombardy (4,590), Campania (2,635), Emilia-Romagna (2,456), Piedmont (1,537) and Lazio (1,520).
The main news of the day
• One of the most debated topics of the new DPCM approved this Tuesday by the government is the possible closure of schools. The decree establishes that in the red zones, those with the highest epidemiological risk, all schools of all levels are closed, including nursery schools. Regarding the yellow and orange areas, the decree distinguishes the situations in which the schools have to closed, as in red areas, and those in which can Be closed, by decision of the regional presidents. The distinction is not very clear, but in this article we have arranged the main novelties of the decree.
• According to the latest estimate by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, in a sample of 1,296 sequenced swabs, 54 percent of coronavirus infections in Italy are caused by the “English variant” (B.1.1.7). Among the regions that have sequenced the most swabs, and therefore where the estimate is most reliable, there are some interesting data: the English variant in Lombardy was detected in 64.3 percent of the 213 sequenced swabs, in Campania in 59.3 percent of the 86 sequenced swabs and in Lazio in 34 percent of the 169 sequenced swabs.
– Read also: The vaccine situation in Italy, in real time
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