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The week that just passed in Sicily was the worst in 5 months for the growth of infections. Between April 5 and 12, in fact, 400 cases of coronavirus had been exceeded in 7 days (432 to be exact), the same thing happened between August 30 and yesterday: 412 infections, a clear increase compared to the week between August 22 and 29, when there were 290.
On this occasion, among other things, infections linked to migrants are in a sharp decline (less than 15% of the total), so what experts already define as the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic seems to be winning terrain too ”. internally”.
But beware, it is not an alarm yet. The reason? Simple: incomes, in proportion, are few and there are no emergency beds, neither in the ordinary regime, nor in intensive care. Furthermore, this jump was expected and expected, because it was linked to the flow of vacationers in August that has now produced its effects. Not only that: it must also be borne in mind that in Sicily the absolute record for tampons has been reached, almost 27,000 in seven days, well above the average of about 20,000.
In Sicily there are 1,343 current positives (against 1084 last week), with 100 hospitalized (there were 70 last Saturday) of which 12 in intensive care (+2). Therefore, there is an increase in patients in the hospital, but still limited (+20) when compared with the number of new cases. The “home isolation” data explains everything, since it has gone from 1004 to 1243. Three deaths in the last week (289 in total).
The last time there was such a strong increase in infections, between April 5 and 12, in fact, in seven days there were 43 victims, with 620 people in the hospital and 58 places in intensive care. Definitely different figures, much more worrying.
Basically, in the last month on the island, of the newly infected with Covid-19 diagnosed only about 4% had to resort to hospital treatment. In intensive care, always based on current infections, 0.6% ended up there. The rest, at home, in home isolation. Asymptomatic
For this reason, on the island today, despite the fact that the number of new positives is considerably higher than a few weeks ago, we are still a long way from the emergency and the nightmare of finding ourselves with full hospitals and intensive care.
Returning to the figures, from August 4 to September 5, from 1,371 new cases, those hospitalized increased from 39 to 100, thus an increase of 61 units, while the rest (that is, 1,310 people) did not need any hospital support.
note that 950 of these 1,371 new cases were intercepted by screening activities or by examining subjects who came into contact with positive people or with positive serological tests later confirmed by swab. After all, it has been clear for days that the new identikit of the coronavirus patient is less than 30 years old and, in fact, asymptomatic.
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