Covid hospitalizations in Tuscany almost tripled: the bulletin marks a new record +879 positive

“Tuscany is the first region to offer the ability to book online for those who want a quick swab.” This is what Governor Eugenio Giani said when presenting the initiative at the Palazzo Sacrati Strozzi. The service will be active from Sunday, October 18 in the morning, on the single regional portal at the address https://prenotatampone.sanita.toscana.it. For young people, there are also special tours and rapid tests. The reservation requires an electronic prescription from the family doctor, pediatrician or medical guard to perform a swab at the health centers. Home tests, on the other hand, will continue to be reserved by doctors. To book online, you must go to the site, enter your tax code, mobile phone number and electronic prescription, choose the hospital or health district, and select the time to take the exam (within 24 hours of booking). Then a confirmation notification will arrive with the possibility to print the note. The test report will be collected digitally. The rapid tests, which give the result in a maximum of 30 minutes, will be dedicated mainly to school-age children to meet the needs of families and schools to have the answers quickly.

But in the meantime, the latest ASL and Region bulletin arrives and sets a new record for positives in the last 24 hours: +879, average age 44 years and two deaths, a man and a woman with an average age of 82.5 years , one for Florence the other in Arezzo).
There are 6,206 cases in total to date in Florence (259 more than yesterday), 1,493 in Prato (24 more), 1,494 in Pistoia (58 more), 1,829 in Massa (42 more), 2,531 in Lucca (67 more), 2,756 in Pisa (179 more), 1,123 in Livorno (51 more), 2,043 in Arezzo (91 more), 1,105 in Siena (87 more), 766 in Grosseto (21 more).

The swabs performed reached 903,865, 13,548 more than the previous day.

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Meanwhile, there is no good news from the health sector: in recent days in Tuscany there has been an “almost exponential” increase in hospitalizations, which in the last four weeks have tripled. This was revealed by a report from the Regional Health Agency (Ars) of the Tuscany Region. “There are 359 people currently hospitalized in the Covid wards – specifies Ars -, there were 170 a week ago and 111 four weeks ago”. “Less abrupt” the increase in intensive care “, which went from 24 hospitalized to 30, to the current 51”. “We recall – the report also reads – that at the time of the peak in April there were about 1,500 Covid-19 patients, of which 300 were in intensive care. We are, therefore, in the presence of a progressive increase in committed hospital health resources, which are to once again increase the number of beds for patients with Covid-19 “.

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Also according to the report, at this time the average age of positives has moved to around 43 years, although the proportion of those over 65 is increasing again. Regarding school-age cases, between September 15 and October 15, 939 were registered, 12% of the positive cases arose.

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“We remind – specifies Ars – that these are not necessarily positive detected in the school environment, that they are much less according to the reports of the school complexes to the ASL prevention departments, but positive in school age, which can therefore discount the percentages of abandonment after the age of the obligation. In general, Ars always points out, around 85% of the positives detected in Tuscany are asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic. “