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Bologna, November 20, 2020 – There is already talk of a coronavirus vaccine, and the Rt index of Emilia Romagna falls 1.14 (the national average is 1.18). However, the number of victims remains high, currently numbering 47. 2,533 and Covidien contagion registered in the last 24 hours (1,036 of which asymptomatic). The number of patients admitted to intensive care is stable (244), but the number of patients in covid wards in the region is increasing (+45). The percentage of new positives out of the number of swabs made (22,300) is today of11.3%, stable compared to yesterday (1.4%). I active cases there are 62,934 (1,928 more than yesterday) 95% are at home because they have mild symptoms. THE healed There are 558, among them Governor Stefano Bonaccini declared COVID negative. The average age is 45.8 years.
It is also thanks to these data that Emilia-Romagna awaits a confirmation of the orange zone. At the top of the worst affected provinces is Modena with 625 new cases, it continues Bologna with 534 and then Reggio emilia with 363.
“The epidemiological curve is slowing down – assures Raffaele Donini – if this data were also confirmed next week, our region would have the characteristics to return to the yellow zone. But this does not authorize us to lower our guard. This virus circulates a lot when they are there meetings, you are mainly infected when you do not use the mask which strongly inhibits the circulation of the virus, in 5% of the cases required Recovery at the hospital. So if today we have data that makes us hope to return to the yellow zone we should not relax ”.
Coronavirus and schools and Cra
Donini also explained that there are 4,615 infections among students and teachers, +838 last week. In nursing homes there are currently 13.51 active cases, or 5% of the hospitalized patients at Cra. There are 45 registered victims.
Rt Emilia Romagna Index
According to the weekly survey of the national control room, the infection transmission rate (Rt) in Emilia-Romagna drops to 1.14. It is the fourth consecutive decrease, after those of the previous three weeks (respectively: 1.63, 1.57, 1.4). A figure that last week did not save our region from turning orange, surpassed by the overcrowding of covid patients in hospitals.
am 37,242 cases of coronavirus identified in Italy in the last 24 hours, about a thousand more than yesterday. The increase in victims instead, it is 699 in one day, compared to yesterday. the currently positive There are 777,176 -with an increase of 15,505 units since yesterday- of these, 739,471 are in home isolation, 33,957 are hospitalized with symptoms and 3,748 are in intensive care (+36 compared to yesterday). In the last 24 hours, 238,077 swabs were made. There Lombardy continues to be the region with the most positives with 9,221 cases, followed by Campania with 4,226 and Piedmont 3,861. I hospitalizations ordinary patients increased by 347 (total 33,957), those of intensive care of 36 (total 3,748). There are 739,471 patients in home isolation, +15,122 compared to yesterday.
Covid victims
Returning to the data of Emilia Romagna, today unfortunately, they are registered 47 new deaths (with an average age of 83.6 years): 13 in the province of Reggio emilia (7 men of 72, 73 and the others respectively of 75, 80, 85, 88 and 92 and 6 women of 74 years, two of 82, 88, 92, 95), 10 to Modena (8 men of 68, 74, 77, 78, two of 79, 92, 95 and 2 women of 74 and 79), 2 years Ravenna (1 woman aged 83 and a man aged 95), 2 in Piacenza (2 men aged 100 and 70), one death in the province of Forlì Cesena (an 89-year-old woman), 12 years Rimini (6 women of 77, 84, 93, two of 94, 99 and 6 men of 58, 79, 84, 85 and two of 89), 3 years Parma (3 males of 73, 85, 86), 3 years Ferrara (3 women of 77, 86, 96 years old), nobody in bologna. An 85-year-old man who died in Modena resided outside the Region. Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, there have been a total of 5,265 deaths in Emilia-Romagna.
Intensive therapy covid
The number of patients admitted to intensive care remains stable: there are 244. Distributed as follows: 13 a Piacenza (+1 compared to yesterday), 14 a Parma (no change from yesterday), 29 a Reggio emilia (+1), 61 to Modena (+1), 63 to Bologna (no change), 5th Imola (no change), 17 a Ferrara (-3), 12 to Ravenna (+1), 6 a Forlì (no change), 1 year Cesena (no change) and 23 a Rimini (-1).
However, those of the other Covid departments increased (+45). Emilia Romagna currently has 46% of beds dedicated to covid patients occupied, a figure that drops to 35% in intensive care.
Coronavirus Italy: today’s infections. Covid Newsletter November 20
Symptomatic and asymptomatic by province
This is how the 2,533 cases are distributed: 309 to Piacenza (of which 74 symptomatic), 125 to Parma (of which 77 symptomatic), 363 to Reggio emilia (of which 270 symptomatic), 625 to Modena (452 of which symptomatic), 534 to Bologna (of which 337 symptomatic), 80 cases a Imola (of which 40 symptomatic), 101 to Ferrara (of which 17 symptomatic), 158 to Ravenna (of which 97 symptomatic), 61 to Forlì (of which 40 symptomatic), 68 to Cesena (of which 47 symptomatic) and 109 a Rimini (of which 46 symptomatic). After verifying the data communicated in recent days, three cases (two in Bologna, one in Ravenna) have been eliminated because they are considered not covid-19.
The direct advisor Donini
Coronavirus vaccine, where it will be kept
The Region and the Health and Hospital Authorities have identified and chosen the facilities where the vaccine doses will be stored for Emilia Romagna and also Health institutions who will administer the first doses, intended in the initial phase to Health workers and there residential facilities for seniors. In particular, facilities must be equipped with freezers that allow temperatures as low as -85 degrees for Pfizer-Biontech’s anti-Covid vaccines.
Places that, for security reasons as required at the national level, are not disclosed. To carry out the recognition of the storage centers and sanitary facilities chosen for the administration of the first doses, today they meet, with the heads of the Regional Directorate of Sanitary Policies, the general directors of all the sanitary and hospital companies, in a meeting by videoconference of viale Aldo Moro.
Regarding the selection criteria, the health establishments, from Piacenza to Rimini, were identified on the basis of the areas of influence, the health personnel employed, in addition to those operating in the area and able to get to garnish in 30-60 minutes.
The President of Emilia Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, turned out negative to Covid-19 after the control swab. He must communicate in a Send on Facebook: “This morning I received good news: I tested negative in the last control swab. For some time, I will have to continue the treatment of pneumonia at home, which is improving but cannot be neglected, but the return to normality is closer today. For the moment I continue working from here – he continues – but certainly today the heart is lighter. Please, let’s all continue to follow the safety rules, to protect ourselves, those close to us and those close to us. the rest “. .
Double lung transplant at the same time
But healthcare is not involved (thankfully) only in the war against covid. Despite a thousand difficulties, the ‘traditional’ healthcare activity continues despite the necessary commotion in the hospitals. To the Sant’Orsola Polyclinic of Bologna became an exceptional double lung transplant (video), which took place the night of October 20-21, in two different patients. Upon the arrival of the call from the Lung Transplant center with the announcement of the availability of two organs – an extraordinary fact – the hospital chose not to choose which patient to operate on first, but to perform two different transplants at the same time. For this, two different teams were mobilized. “The call and the acceptance of a donation trigger the solution 150 professionals health professionals of all levels and abilities. The good thing for us was the possibility of being able to take two calls at the same time, “he said. Piergiorgio Solli, director of thoracic surgery at the Polyclinic.
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