Coronavirus in Lombardy, today’s newsletter October 14: 1844 positives and 17 deaths



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Milan, October 14, 2020 – 1,844 new positives are registered in Lombardy, of these 1032 in Milan, 504 in the city. This is what emerges from Today’s newsletter from the Lombardy region about the Covid-19 emergency. The number of swabs processed is high, 29,048 in the last 24 hours. Yesterday there were 1080 new cases out of 17186 swabs. Therefore, the case / investigation relationship remains substantially stable: yesterday at 6.2%, today at 6.3%. The death toll is growing dramatically – there are 17 victims today, a number that brings the overall total of deaths from the pandemic to more than 17,000 to 17,011. However, a steeply rising epidemic curve continues the positive trend of cured / discharged, which are 865 more today than yesterday (the total from the start of the pandemic is 84,415).

Of particular concern is Milan that is recording in the last days a sharp increase in infections, which is already affecting the front of the hospital. The risk: if you can’t trade suddenly change of route – is having a sudden and unwieldy increase in hospitalizations and patients within 15 days. From the hospital front, in the first line of the health emergency there is a new increase in hospitalizations: those in intensive care amounted to 64 (+2), to 645 in the rest of the wards with an increase of 99. Figures that are not recorded for months and that triggered the maximum alert.

65% of cases related to children under 50 years of age

They are above all under 50 new positives registered in Lombardy. More precisely, it is 65% of the cases. Most (701) are between 25 and 49 years old, but it is the presence of children under 18 is significant, in total 297. In total so far in the region 116,644 people have contracted the Coronavirus, of these 82893 have recovered, while 17011 have died.

The data for Wednesday October 14 in Lombardy

As for the provinces, in addition to Milan, 150 cases were a Monza and Brianza, 110 to Varese, 101 a Pavia, 81 to Brescia, 67 to How, 46 to Bergamo, 42 to Mantua, 30 to Cremona. 20 in Lecco, 23 a I gave it and 14 to Sondrio.

Intensive care, Pesenti: ready to reopen the hospital in Fiera

In Lombardy there are 150 beds in intensive care in the different centers destined to receive Covid patients. As specified by Antonio Pesenti, coordinator of the Crisis Unit of the Region for intensive care, if all were filled, “the project of the Region is reopen the Fiera di Milano hospital “. At the moment, 10 hubs are active in Lombardy with Covid departments, but another 7-8 can be gradually activated. .

Dpcm, Sala and the call to the government

As mentioned, Milan is the special one. After Monday’s decline, new coronavirus infections have started to rise again. the Mayor Giuseppe Sala, in a video on his social pages he is directed to the government why do you indicate “a direction for the future of the country, This is what to do. “The mayor then clarified that” I have nothing against the Prime Minister’s Decree “but there is” fear of a difficult autumn and winter and that is why we must open a window in the future and that is not it is only where we are but in which direction we are going, this is what I think the government should do when indicating guidelines for the development of our country “

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