Coronavirus in Lombardy, today’s newsletter October 2: 307 new cases and 4 deaths



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Coronavirus
Coronavirus

Milan, October 2, 2020 – After the boom of Yesterday, the new ones fall almost in Coronavirus in Lombardy: in 24 hours they are registered 307 (Thursday 324), of which 27 ‘weak positive’ and 1 after a serological test. It’s hard the number of tampons also dropped executed: 19,842, general total: 2,153,477 (yesterday 24,691). THE 4 deaths, one less than yesterday. THE healed / downloaded increased: +304 (yesterday 212) for a general total: 81,228 (+304), of which 1,419 were discharged and 79,809 recovered. The number of hospitalizations in intensive care was also higher +4 (39) mi in other departments +4 (302).

Data from the provinces

As for the Lombard provinces, half of the Lombard cases are in the Milan area: 159, of which 81 in the capital city (yesterday +168 and +110 respectively). Follow Varese with 30 new infections (yesterday +39), Monza and Brianza with 28 (yesterday +22) and Brescia with 20 (yesterday +25). TO Bergamo 13 (yesterday +18), to Cremona 10 (yesterday +1), Pavia 9 (yesterday + 20) and a Mantua 7 (yesterday +5). Then, Lecco has 5 new positives (yesterday +1), while Lodi and Sondrio +2 (yesterday +8 and +1 respectively).

Coronavirus, the data for Friday, October 2 in Lombardy

Covid, an anticancer agent can block the first symptoms

Give one cancer drug new hopes against Covid-19. A research coordinated by the University of Milano-Bicocca, carried out together with the University of Brescia and published in the ‘Journal of Medical Virology’, indicates that the methotrexate – used for decades against tumors and autoimmune diseases – achieves block the replication and proliferation of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in laboratory tests and therefore has “the potential to limit damage in milder patients or in the first symptoms. Clinical trials will begin as soon as possible,” announces Bicocca.

Coronavirus, 42.3% of the inhabitants infected in Val Seriana

It’s statisticsto one of the most affected areas of Italy and the world of the diffusion of coronavirus. Now comes the confirmation of the data, arising from the serological research promoted by Municipalities of the Seriana Valley (according to Ats Bergamo and the Lombardy Region): almost one in two inhabitants has antibodies against the coronavirus. Therefore, 42.3% of the subjects evaluated were positive, with an increasing trend of positivity after 45 years. There is a consistently higher prevalence of positivity in the female gender. The municipality with the highest percentage of positives was Selvino (56.4%).

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