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The number of new coronavirus cases identified in Sicily in the last 24 hours decreases, but the number of hospitalized patients is growing. According to the latest bulletin from the Ministry of Health, the new positives are 792 (yesterday 878) of the 7,109 swabs processed. There are 1,076 hospitalized patients with symptoms (5 more than yesterday ed), while in Intensive Care there are 178 occupied beds (yesterday 174 ed) with 13 new entries. In total there are 1,254 people in the hospital (yesterday there were 1,245 ed). The number of citizens in home isolation decreases, from 32,843 yesterday to 32,629. Unfortunately, there are 24 other victims and the total is 2,155 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The new discharged / healed are 728, for a total of 48,491.
This is the subdivision of the new cases by province: Catania 209; Palermo 271; Messina 89; Ragusa 47; Trapani 3, Siracusa 68; Agrigento 7; Caltanissett 85 and Enna 13.
Early Christmas Masses
Also in Palermo, early Christmas masses are celebrated to allow the faithful to respect the curfew at 10 p.m. imposed by the Government by the Covid 19 epidemic. The Church of Palermo therefore adopts the instructions of the Permanent Council of the CEI and the Sicilian Episcopal Conference. “Christmas Eve Mass – it reads on the Archdiocese’s website – will not begin before 7 pm, ensuring that it ends, in any case and without exceptions, at a time that allows the faithful to return home at 10 pm “. (The full article)
The trips
In the field of travel, Italy has also decided to stop (until 6 January ed) to air connections with the United Kingdom due to the new variant of the Coronavirus identified in the country. Chancellor Luigi Di Maio announced this in a post on Facebook. “The United Kingdom has raised the alarm about a new form of Covid that would be the result of a mutation of the virus. As a government – wrote Di Maio – we have a duty to protect Italians, for this reason, after having warned the government English, with the Ministry of Health we are about to sign the measure to suspend flights with Great Britain. Our priority is to protect Italy and our compatriots. ”
A few hours later, the confirmation of the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. “I signed a new ordinance that blocks outbound flights and prohibits entry to Italy of those who have passed through it in the last 14 days. Anyone who is already in Italy, coming from that territory, must undergo a molecular antigenic swab by contacting prevention departments. The Covid variant, recently discovered in London, is worrying and will have to be investigated by our scientists. In the meantime, we are choosing the path of utmost caution. ”
Through Facebook, from the Falcone-Borsellino airport it is advisable to contact the airlines or public service number 1500. From the ASP they announced that based on the provisions of the ordinance “everyone who is in the territory of Palermo and the province and in the last 14 days they have stayed or transited in the United Kingdom, they are obliged to communicate their entry to the territory to the Prevention Department to be contacted at the following telephones: 339 2929135 or 366 3485129. Interested parties must also urgently communicate close contacts they have had since entering Italy “. (The full article)
Solidarity
From the president of the Region Nello Musumeci, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity (established in 2005 by the General Assembly of the United Nations) a new call to respect the anti-Covid rules. “In a difficult period like the one we are living,” he says, “with important sacrifices requested of all citizens, the International Day of Solidarity acquires an even more particular meaning. Each of us, especially with the proximity of the Christmas holidays, we are called to be in solidarity with others with concrete acts, for example, respecting the limitations established by national and regional governments to contain the infection by Coronavirus, and the safety regulations like the use of masks and social distancing. It is an act of solidarity and true and concrete respect towards, firstly, the members of our family and then all citizens in general, with special attention to the most fragile subjects such as the elderly ”.
The situation in Italy
The new bulletin of the Ministry of Health registers today more than 15 thousand new cases that lead to the growth of the current positives (+2594) for the first time after days of decreasing data. There are 121 new accesses to intensive care by patients who need to be intubated to stay alive. 352 deaths registered in the last 24 hours.
- New cases: 15,104 (yesterday 16,308)
- Cases tested: 64,294 (yesterday 75 112)
- Swabs (diagnosis and control): 137,420 (yesterday 176,185)
- Currently positive: 622,760 + 2,594 (yesterday 620,166, -7,632)
- Hospitalized: 25,158 -206 (yesterday 25,364 -405)
- Hospitalized in ICU: 2,743, -41, 121 new (yesterday 2,784, -35, 160 new)
- Total positive cases: 1,953,185 (yesterday 1,938,083)
- Deceased: 68,799, +352 (yesterday 68,447, +553)
- Total discharged / cured: 1,261,626 +12156 (yesterday 1,249,470)
