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Ancona, March 4, 2021 – They keep growing coronavirus cases in the Marche region and it also increases the positivity index. Today, in fact, according to data from the Region, there is a record of infections, up to 919 (yesterday there were 759), while the percentage of positives stands at 23.3% (yesterday it was 15.9%). This on March 4, after the Ancona province he turned Red zone from yesterday and will be until tomorrow, March 5 (but there is a new closing provision on the way). But also Macerata it will probably be restricted. 70% of the infections occur between these two provinces.
Red zone: after Ancona Macerata also risks
The Health Service published the first Covid bulletin of the day, highlighting that the new 919 positives were found when analyzing 3,937 swabs in the new diagnostic route. In the antigen screening route, 1,121 tests were performed and 44 positive cases were found (to be subjected to molecular swabbing). The positive / proven ratio is 4%.
The contagion map
The positives in the new diagnostic pathway are 919: 206 in the province of Macerata, 437 in the province of Ancona, 117 in the province of Pesaro-Urbino, 72 in the province of Still, 61 in the province of Ascoli piceno and 26 outside the region.
How is it infected?
These cases include symptomatic subjects (94 cases detected), contacts in the home environment (174 cases detected), close contacts of positive cases (384 cases detected), contacts in the work environment (19 cases detected), contacts in living / social environments (4 cases detected), contacts in environmental care (2 cases detected), contacts with the participation of students of all educational levels (30 cases detected), detection of health care pathways (3 cases detected) and 1 case from outside the region. For another 208 cases, epidemiological investigations are still underway.
Hospitals that collapse
In Marche hospitals are collapsing due to the coronavirus pandemic that blocks all patients who have to undergo other surgeries. More precisely, there are: 84 hospitalized in intensive care, 167 in semi-intensive care 645 hospitalized in non-intensive wards with 204 additional guests in local facilities and 84 patients in the emergency room. It is the province of Ancona that is asking for help, despite having at least seven hospitals lined up next to each other. It starts from Torrette and passes from Inca with Osimo. Then there are Jesi, Senigallia and Fabriano, as well as some private clinics and some minor hospitals like Chiaravalle.
Red zone in Ancona. And Macerata?
Ancona and its province have become Red zone since yesterday and will remain so until tomorrow, march 5. But, as soon as the government approves the Dpcm, the measure will certainly be extended by the governor of the Acquaroli Region. For weeks the province of Ancona has been the target of an exponential number of cases, due to the spread in the territory of the English variant, which has a more pronounced contagion than the original strain of the virus. There is also the risk of redness. the province of Macerata: some of your municipalities may change color.
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