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by Ivano Porfiri
There are 263 Covid cases in Umbria in the last 24 hours out of a total of 3,690 swabs. In the last week they were 648 compared to 302 in the previous one. “The situation has changed with the opening of schools – said the Councilor for Health Luca Coletto during a press conference -. Attention is high and we are readjusting intensive care, as in the first phase. As of tomorrow, we enter a level 4 alert in hospitals. The comforting data is the average age of those infected, which remains around 40 years ”. And this is also the key to interpreting the Region: “The contagion spreads among young people but then at home it spreads to other age groups.”
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Schools and transportation to places of interest Coletto stressed that the situation was under control until September 19, then there was a “significant evolution between the end of September and especially the beginning of October. It must be aligned with the opening of schools. It is precisely in the schools where the commissary unloads most of the growth of infections. “The graphs show us how the resumption of other activities after the closure did not lead to a decline. Schools started in mid-September and transportation as a corollary. Here we must intervene, the numbers say, in fact we had to do it first. Especially in high schools. Pupils must be divided between morning and afternoon, as was done in the 1960s, thus relieving both people in the classroom and transportation. Lessons from home? They are also an option for college students. If we intervene as a Region? Of course, we cannot think that the curve will continue to grow. Now we have an important red flag, we cannot wait for the wave to unload on health, which is the last component of the system.
113 isolated classes The emergency commissioner, Antonio Onnis, described the alarming data of the last days. “In the schools – he said – immediately after the reopening we had a first phase with sporadic extemporaneous cases (52 classes in 52 schools). Then the situation changed: yesterday there were 113 classes in 59 schools and 2,770 blocks, up to 5 classes in a single school. The phenomenon of school outbreaks is a subject of great attention. As for the figures in general, “we have 648 cases in a week and a significant increase in hospitalizations, with a rate of hospitalizations of 6% on the positive, which increasing the figures can put stress on the hospital system. We are streamlining the notification times for swabs: 81% are done in 24 hours, 98% in 48 hours thanks to the extraordinary effort of laboratories and local health authorities. In swabs, it sped up, reaching 4,000 per day. “We have also distributed the first antigenic tests to family doctors and pediatricians – Onnis stressed – ‘quantitative’ antigenic tests are being introduced, which also require a step in the laboratory, while we wait for the rapid molecular tests of the national commissioner. They will be another tool to use.
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Covid Hospitals The Director of Regional Health, Claudio Dario, spoke about the situation of the hospitals. We must act because the numbers indicate that we are going towards the decompensation of the system ”. Which means immediately establishing two hospitals as Covid hospitals. “It cannot be Screen – Darío specified – because the ministry has not included it among those eligible and funded. Two first-rate Goddesses must be taken between Città di Castello, Branca, Foligno, Spoleto and Orvieto. There are options to be able to concentrate patients and free places in second-level hospitals (Perugia and Terni) ». Discussions are underway at this time, including with the ministry, and a decision will be made very soon.
Towards level 4 “Until mid-September – Darío remarked – the situation was ‘offset’ between hospitalizations and discharges, concentrated in the main hospitals. Our scheme contemplated, in case of increases, a phase 3 that was divided into four levels: the first involved only the hospitals of Perugia and Terni; the second is extended to Città di Castello and Foligno; the third with additional beds in these hospitals; the fourth with a greater expansion and participation of Screen, even if only partially, since it is not included in the financing of the ministry for Covid hospitals. At the same time, an effort is made to keep the other rooms open for patients with other pathologies. Today we are 12 patients in Covid intensive care, so we would be at level 3, but with infections we are entering the room. Also because with an incidence of 6% of positives in the next 15 days we will see that hospitals are filled with tested positives today.
