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The tests of the suspected cases were positive, 23.9%. And, after many weeks, the current positives are down slightly. The Prato case
FLORENCE – The number of new positive cases identified in Tuscany in recent days does not change much, today they are 2,508 against 2433 yesterday, with an average age of 47 years, but a record number of swabs have been made in the last 24 hours – 22,365 – and the percentage of those carried out on suspected cases -more than ten thousand- that gave positive results has varied considerably: 23.9% against 34.9 yesterday. To these are added the 2,721 rapid antigenic swabs that are carried out today.
“The Tuscan system has weathered well a wave that has experienced an undoubted moment of suffering – declared the regional health adviser Simone Bezzini to the Health Commission of the Regional Council – Infections have grown exponentially and the system has struggled to withstand the impact . But we recover. “
Out of 2,508 new cases, 1,759 were identified by monitoring contacts of known cases and 749 through detection activities, for a total, since the start of the epidemic, of 86,705 people who contracted the infection. In the last 24 hours, 2,500 have healed and the total amounts to 30,573 (35.5% of the total infected).
Today 55 new deaths have also been included in the regional bulletin, some of which, however, occurred in recent weeks. The total amounts to 2,022. It is about 32 men and 23 women with an average age of almost 83 years. Regarding the province of residence, the deceased lived 31 in Florence, 4 in Prato, 2 in Pistoia, 4 in Massa Carrara, 1 in Lucca, 8 in Pisa, 2 in Arezzo, 3 in Grosseto.
The positives currently at Covid in Tuscany are today 54,110, Finally slightly decreasing after many weeks of steady increase (yesterday it was 54,152). Of these, those hospitalized are 2,087 (18 more than yesterday), of which 282 in intensive care (5 more). Others 52,023 positives for Covid are instead isolated at home with mild symptoms that do not require hospital treatment or without symptoms (60 less than yesterday). The number of people in quarantine and under the supervision of the ASL after contact with the infected continues to increase considerably (therefore, it is not yet known whether they were infected or not): they are 3,232 more for a total of 51,016 (Asl Centro 18,401, Northwest 21,126, Southeast 11,489).
The following are the cases of positivity in the area with yesterday’s change:
– 24,509 cases in total to date in Florence (671 more than yesterday), 7,620 in Prato (219 more), 7,326 in Pistoia (197 more),
– 5,433 in Massa (213 more), 8,490 in Lucca (429 more), 12,013 in Pisa (354 more), 6,043 in Livorno (169 more),
– 8,171 in Arezzo (124 more), 3,639 in Siena (51 more), 2,906 in Grosseto (81 more). 555 positive cases were reported in Tuscany, but residing in other regions.
Therefore, there are 1,087 cases found today in the ASL Center (sum of the provinces of Florence, Prato, Pistoia), 1,165 in the Northwest (Massa Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, Livorno), 256 in the Southeast (Arezzo, Siena, Grosseto). ).
Tuscany remains in seventh place in Italy in terms of number of cases (including residents and non-residents), with approx. 2,325 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure higher than Italian average: 2,051 x 100,000. The reporting provinces with the highest rate are Meadow with 2,957 cases x 100,000 inhabitants, Pisa with 2,867, Massa Carrara with 2,788, Grosseto lower with 1,311.
About Meadow, one of the provinces least affected during the first wave of the pandemic, the director of the Prevention Department of the ASL Toscana Centro Renzo Berti specified that, during this second wave, the high incidence of contagion depends on whether it is an area with a high population density from the plain to Vernio and that, in the city with the largest Chinese community in Europe, citizens of eastern origin who have contracted the infection are “a small number” compared to the total.
The Tuscan crude death rate (number of deaths / resident population) for Covid-19 is 54.2 x 100 000 residents, lower than the national: 77.0 x 100 000 of the Italian average. Regarding the provinces, the highest mortality rate is found in Massa Carrara (122.6 x 100 000), Florence (75.2 x 100 000) and Lucca (53.4 x 100 000); the lowest in Grosseto (18.5 x 100,000).
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