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Rome, October 23, 2020 – Weekly follow-up Iss-Ministry of Health about him Coronavirus, for the week 12-18 October 2020 (updated to October 20, 2020), highlights that “the epidemic is rapidly getting worse”. In today’s bulletin, the threshold of 19 thousand cases in 24 hours was exceeded. The document indicates that measures are necessary, with priority for the most affected areas, that favor a drastic reduction of physical interactions between people and that can alleviate pressure on health services, including restrictions on non-essential activities and restrictions on the mobility ”.
The situation in Italy shows signs of the criticality of local services and of the “imminent achievement of critical thresholds for assistance services”. Case evidence increasing rapidly with National Rt of 1.5 at their average value and significantly above 1, indicate a situation “generally and widely very serious in the national territory with the risk of important short-term critical problems in many Italian / AP regions “
Graph: the Rt index in the regions
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There are a total of 7,625 active outbreaks, of which 1,286 are new but there is a decrease in new outbreaks “since local services have not been able to identify an epidemiological link: they have been reported 23,018 cases not associated with known chains of transmission (vs 9,291 last week) which corresponds to 43.5% of the total cases reported this week. “The workload – it is highlighted – is no longer sustainable in the local health services with evidence of the impossibility of fully tracking transmission chains and increase in the proportion of cases highlighted by symptoms (surpassing for the first time this week cases identified through contact tracing)
“This week, outbreaks in which transmission could have occurred are increasing School environment even if intra-school transmission still appears limited (3.5% of all new outbreaks in which the transmission context was reported). “The document states that” however, it is clear that extra and peri schools can be a trigger of transmission chains where the foreseen prevention measures are not respected ”.
The report explains that “it is essential that the population stays at home whenever possible and reduce all opportunities for contact with people outside the home that are not strictly necessary. We remind you that it is mandatory to adopt rigorous individual behaviors and to respect current sanitary measures regarding the distance and correct use of masks ”.
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