Coronavirus, the update of infections in Palermo and Sicily on October 26, 2020

38 more people ended up in hospital with coronavirus in Sicily in the last 24 hours, compared to 568 new infections found. The swabs processed yesterday (Sunday always a little less than the rest of the days of the week) were 4,976 (11.4% positive). There are also 11 people who died with Covid today (439 in total). While 167 are cured, bringing in more than 6,000 people who have left the virus behind since the start of the pandemic.

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The number of people hospitalized thus rises to 677 (+35), to which must be added the patients in intensive care (98, +3 compared to yesterday). The current positives on the island are 10,945, of which the majority (10,170) are in home isolation: that is, 92% of all infected. But be careful not to be fooled by the percentages: the absolute figure, if we talk about people who need hospital care, is not marginal. Rather.

Statistics from the statistics office: + 53% positive in 7 days

Today the president of the Region Nello Musumeci reiterated that “even in Sicily we must prepare for the worst. We need more and more beds for the positives who need care and more and more intensive care places for those in serious difficulties. But, along with the beds,” said the governor , we need health workers. specialists: there is a lot to do with the ones we already have (which I sincerely thank, along with the operators), because everywhere in Italy there is an appalling shortage of these professionals. Each hospital must, therefore, give something to give absolute priority to Covid patients. “In summary, do not panic but pay attention.

In the province of the capital the highest number of infections was found today: 220. Then there is Catania with 121, Messina 89, Syracuse 65, Agrigento 35, Enna 24, Caltanissetta 9, Trapani 3 and Ragusa 2.

He closed another nursery in Palermo

The Pantera Rosa municipal nursery school, in the Altarello district, has been closed since this morning after verifying the positivity to Covid-19 of an employee. The Municipality announced: “The procedures provided for in the anti-Covid Protocols were immediately applied and the names of the adults, girls and boys who attend the nursery were delivered to the ASP prevention department. The nursery activity was suspended. and The children’s parents have been warned. The educational facility will remain closed for sanitation pending the ASP to provide more health information. “

The situation in the rest of Italy

The new coronavirus bulletin from the Ministry of Health today, Monday, October 26, 2020, says that positive Covid patients in Italy exceed 236 thousand, levels never reached during the first wave. Today there are 17,012 cases out of only 78,816 cases analyzed. Leap of the dead, 141 in the last 24 hours. Hospitalizations and intensive care are growing.

Coronavirus, today’s newsletter Monday, October 26

New cases: 17,012 (yesterday 16,079)
Cases tested: 78,816 (yesterday 101,876)
Swabs (diagnosis and control): 124,686 (yesterday 170,392)
Currently positive: 236,684 (yesterday 222,241)
Deaths: 37,479, + 141 (yesterday 128)
Hospitalized patients: 12,997, + 991 (12,006, +799)
Hospitalized in Intensive Care: 1,284, + 76 (yesterday 1,208, +80)
Total positive cases: 542,789
Downloaded / Healed: 268,626