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Twenty-two new positives fewer than the day before despite nearly a thousand more swabs. This is the most prominent piece of information that emerges from today’s newsletter on the Covid situation in Sicily, which the Ministry of Health has just published. The positivity rate decreased: it went from 11.9% 24 hours ago to 10.6%. Today 1,065 new cases were registered on the island (yesterday there were 1,087) of the 9,974 swabs. If on Tuesday there were 14 new admissions to intensive care, today there were 18. To report another 29 victims (2,059 the total since the start of the pandemic).
1,188 people hospitalized with symptoms in Sicily. The total number of people admitted to intensive care is 183 units. Currently, 33,805 people are in home isolation. The total number of people currently positive on the island is 35,176 subjects. Number that makes the total number of coronavirus cases in Sicily jump since the beginning of the pandemic to 81,256. The new healed are 1,829.
On the province-by-province distribution front, there were 285 new cases in Palermo. The other provinces: Catania 297, Messina 253, Ragusa 32, Trapani 52, Syracuse 69, Agrigento 36, Caltanissetta 3
Vaccines, 129,000 doses will arrive in Sicily
There are just over 129 thousand doses of the anti-Covid vaccine distributed by Pfizer that will arrive in Sicily. The vaccination campaign in Italy will begin with the first 1,833,975 doses, assuming that in the session of December 21 the EMA approves the placing on the market of the vaccine and the AIFA will be validated almost immediately. This was announced in a note by the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, Domenico Arcuri.
In detail, the distribution in the Regions (first shipment): Abruzzo 25,480; Basilicata 19,455; Calabria 53,131; Campania 135,890; Emilia Romagna 183,138; Friuli VG 50,094; Lazio 179,818; Liguria 60,142; Lombardy 304,955; Gears 37,872; Molise 9,294; PA Bolzano 27,521; PA Trento 18,659; Piedmont 170,995; Puglia 94,526; Sardinia 33,801; Sicily 129,047; Tuscany 116,240; Umbria 16,308; Aosta Valley 3,334; Veneto 164,278.
Coronavirus, today’s newsletter in Italy
Coronavirus, the new Coronavirus bulletin from the Ministry of Health today Wednesday, December 16, 2020 in Italy reports 17,572 new cases of people positive for Sars-Cov-2 but a significant reduction in hospitalizations. Of the 645,706 positives currently, 30,268 are those who need hospital treatment, just under 3,000 critical patients requiring intensive care, 77 less than yesterday. Unfortunately today there are 680 deaths and the admission of 191 people to intensive care units.
- New cases: 17,572 (yesterday 14,844)
- Tested cases: 78972 (yesterday 62707)
- Swabs (diagnosis and control): 199,489 (yesterday 162,880)
- Currently positive: 645,706 (yesterday 667,303)
- Hospitalized: 26,897, -445 (yesterday 27,342, -423)
- Hospitalized in ICU: 2,926, -77, 191 new (yesterday 3,003, -92, 199 new)
- Total positive cases: 1,888,144 (yesterday 1,870,576)
- Deaths: 66,537 (yesterday 65,857)
- Total discharged / cured: 1,175,901 (yesterday 1,141,406)
