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Infections are increasing in the province of Cremona: in the last 24 hours the new positives are 221 compared to 124 the day before. In the Region, 44,294 swabs were processed, the new 8,853 positive, therefore with an incidence of 20%, a slight decrease compared to yesterday, when the new infections registered were 9,221.
Six more admissions to the ICU, for a total of 936, while the patients admitted to other wards increased by 10, for a total of 8,314. There are 169 dead.
As for the rest of the provinces, Milan is always the province with the highest number of infected: 3,232, of which 1,144 only in the city; Bergamo 304, Brescia 462, Como 655, Lecco 160, Lodi 77, Mantova 338, Monza and Brianza 758, Pavia 385, Sondrio 67 and Varese 1,970. The healed / discharged are 5,640.
“There are 40 days until Christmas and at this moment the epidemiological data tell us that we cannot move between regions, but we hope that the numbers will improve and therefore exceptions are possible,” explained the undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Sandra Zampa. (Pd), guest of Lilli Gruber in ‘Otto e mezzo Sabato’ in La7. “On New Year’s Eve – he added – gatherings will not be allowed in the square and parties as in past years. As a government we must have a very rigorous attitude and, unlike this summer, there will be no exceptions, because we cannot imagine a third wave ”.
“This Christmas we must make the effort to be really the smallest possible number – concluded the undersecretary -: it is not the number itself, but the more circle of people who do not usually frequent, the greater the risk. I suppose you can say five, six people at most among the closest loved ones, but it is obvious that it will not be possible to control it, so everyone will be asked to limit the people who come together as much as possible ”.
In Italy there are 34,767 new cases of Covid, about 2,500 less than yesterday, with 237,000 swabs, bringing the total to 1,380,531 cases. The positivity rate is 15%. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the increase in victims is 692, for a total of 49,261 since the beginning of the emergency. It stops the increase in hospitalized patients in intensive care for Covid: in the last 24 hours, 10 people have been admitted to resuscitation rooms, bringing the total to 3,758. On the other hand, the threshold of 34 thousand hospitalized in ordinary wards has been exceeded: there are 34,063, an increase of 106 patients compared to yesterday. The positives are currently 791,746, 14,570 more in one day.
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