In Lombardy, the swabs made are still very few.

05/10/2020 Italy



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Now it is clear. Monitoring the infection from Covid-19 will be essential for managing the Phase 2. A monitoring that passes (also) from swabs. plus Very few the facts in LombardyAlthough it has gone from 4 thousand at the beginning of the emergency to more than 10 thousand on average in the last days (today, however, I am down to 7,369) more than 30 accredited laboratories in front of the initial three.

According to Gimbe Foundation from Bologna however it should be more than double, 250 for every 100,000 inhabitantswhile we are now trapped in 99. This figure places Lombardy in the “critical zone”, despite being the region with the most cases and the most deaths, half of the national total.

The Gimbe Foundation has put the spotlight on the swab jungle throughout the country: Very few and a excess variability from region to region. They range from 222 per 100,000 inhabitants of Trento to 37 in Puglia. “International recommendations, scientific evidence, and reagent availability confirm that an extended testing strategy is needed in Phase 2,” explains the Bolognese study. However, to date, testing in Italy has stopped at an average of 59 per day per 100,000 inhabitants. The Foundation examined the swabs made between April 22 and May 6 and divided the regions according to the 5 classes developed by the David Hume Foundation, which highlighted how there is a correlation between swabs and mortality: «more swabs, less death “

In countries like Israel or Iceland, where more than 250 tampons are manufactured for every 100,000 inhabitants, the death rate is 15 times less than in Italy which is below the “critical threshold” of 60 buffers. The Lombardy case is significant. In our region, a few more swabs than Veneto (477 thousand against 432 thousand). But the Zaia region has half of our population and especially a quarter of infected deaths and a ninth of Covid.

As for Brescia, the five laboratories in the province have so far processed 111,201 swabs (data updated as of May 8). Of these 21489 turned out positive. A figure that does not correspond to 21,489 infected, we emphasize, since a person is subject to a tampon several times. The latest data published by the Lombardy Region speak of 13,550 cases in Brescia.

Severely limiting the number of tests carried out is the problem of the reagents that, as happened in the case of serological tests in BresciaThey are available in limited quantities. A problem that not only concerns Italy, but is occurring internationally. Then there is the problem related to staff and equipment. In general, the Foundation study, however, calls on the regions to “implement the tampon extension” and asks the Government “to include among the Phase 2 indicators a minimum standard of at least 250 diagnostic swabs per day per 100,000 inhabitants. “In order to« neutralize opportunistic behaviors aimed at reducing the diagnosis of too many new cases that would increase the risk of new blockages ».