Coronavirus, data: 822 dead. There are 29 thousand new infections with 232,711 tests, a decrease in hospitalizations

am 29,003 new cases of coronavirus in Italy in the last 24 hours with 232,711 swabs processed, of which 110,261 diagnoses. The death toll remains tragic: in one day they were 822. The trend of hospitalizations, with a decrease in Beds employed in Covid departments for the third day in a row-275). Today even the intensive therapy (-two). Gives Monday a Thursday have been checked 101,018 positivity, in the same days last week had been 130,003: the decrease is therefore around 2. 3%. Positive rates have also dropped: the ratio of infections to tampons equals 12.6% (15.4% execution week), while in proven cases the rate is 25.4% (it was 27.9%). Red of the dramatic figure of the deceased, therefore, the curve still shows signs of Slow down.

“If for three weeks – he says Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation – you register a reduction of the percentage increase in new cases, for the first time during the second wave there was a reduction both in absolute terms of new cases and in the ratio of positive / proven cases ”. “The effects of the containment measures – continues Cartabellotta – are also beginning to manifest themselves in hospitalization curves me intensive therapy, which tend to look more like a plateau than a peak similar to that recorded in the first wave. To loosen the pressure in hospitals will take then more time compared to last spring, because the scope of the current containment measures is significantly less than the total blockade ”.

In fact, there are currently even more than 34 thousand people hospitalized and again 3,846 patients in the beds of intensive care. Finally, in front of others 24 thousand healed, still remain 795,845 people nowadays positive to the coronavirus in Italy. For this, the Gimbe Foundation, remembering that they were only there from November 18 to 24 4,842 deaths, in its follow-up demands prudent choices. “While more than 1% of the population is currently positive for infection – explains Renata gili, Head of Research in Health Services of the Foundation – the virus circulation in our country it still is very high. And in this phase of slow decline in the contagion curve, the increase in new cases post-loosening measurements will be visible no earlier than 2-3 weeks. “According to Cartabellotta’s analysis, in conclusion,” a reckless loosening of the measures is likely to trigger one before the end of the year new investment curve of the contagion which, as we well know, is then reflected in hospitals still in overload and with the top ofseasonal flu arriving “.