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Another 699 deaths in Italy in the last 24 hours, for a total of 48,569 since the start of the pandemic, but “the strategy is working, we are on the plateau.” 37,242 new cases of coronavirus were registered compared to the 238,077,000 swabs made. The positivity rate returns to 15.6% (yesterday it was 14.4%).
“In recent days, the number of cases has begun to flatten and this indicates a slowdown in incidence,” said the president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro during the conference on the analysis of data from regional monitoring of the control room . The goal is not “slow growth, but a rapid decline that can only be achieved with an rt below ‘1, a threshold at which systematic monitoring is possible,” explains Brusaferro.
However, the flattening of the curve does not allow us to “claim victory” but rather “we must respect the measurements because Rt is equal to 1.18 and this means
that the cases continue to grow, although more slowly ”. For this reason, “the epidemic remains at critical levels both in terms of incidence and because the healthcare structures are very busy.” “We are in a high-risk phase throughout the country,” explains Brusaferro, “but there are signs of effectiveness of the measures.”
The president of the ISS also highlighted that among the positive aspects “the average age is growing, still below the levels reached in February-March, but it is beginning to grow.” Those hospitalized in intensive care “are mainly men” with an age that “remains stable at 70 years,” said Brusaferro, specifying that the proportion of children under 50 years is “minimal.”
Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Council of Health Franco Locatelli, is also of the same alert: “The data are evidently indicative of an important gap that is opening, but this is a reason to insist”. “Everything indicates how the strategy of diversification of the measures has had a manifestation of its effectiveness”, continues Locatelli, “but I am very clear that these indicators of improvement and deceleration of the curve must be an invitation to be even more rigorous and rigorous. It is necessary to lower Rt below 1. The data is indicative of a significant opening opening but this is a reason to insist. Let’s avoid repeating the mistakes of last summer ”.
“If on one side we can see a flash, on the other we have to endure. Rates for beds and intensive care are not positive. Hospitals will continue to suffer for weeks ”, continues in the same vein as his colleagues Gianni Rezza, general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health. “A slowdown is confirmed, but with a still very high incidence. We are “, he underlines,” in more than 700 cases per 100,000, this summer we were between 10 and 15. Unfortunately, even with the decrease in RT, the suffering of the health services will continue. ”
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