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Florence, October 8, 2020 – In Tuscany there are 16,612 positive cases of Coronavirus, 339 more than yesterday (192 identified in the course of tracking and 147 from detection activities). New cases are 2.1% more than the total of the previous day.
Average age
The average age of 339 cases at present is approximately 42 years (20% are under 20 years old, 31% between 20 and 39, 29% between 40 and 59, 8% between 60 and 79, 12% are 80 years or more) and, regarding clinical states, 62% were asymptomatic, 32% pauci-symptomatic. Of the 339 positivity today, 24 cases are attributable to older guests at RSA’s facilities, where some cases had already emerged in recent days. 5 cases can be linked to returns from abroad. 37% of the cases is a contact linked to a previous case. Those cured grew by 0.2% and reached 10,693 (64.4% of all cases). The swabs performed reached 806,096, 9,050 more than yesterday. The current positives are 4,749 today, + 7.2% compared to yesterday. There are 159 hospitalized (8 more than yesterday), of which 27 in intensive care (1 less).
No deaths
Today there are no new deaths. These are the data – verified today at 12 o’clock based on requests from the National Civil Protection – regarding the advance of the epidemic in the region. It should be remembered that as of June 24, 2020, the Ministry of Health changed the data collection system on the spread of Covid-19. Positive cases are no longer indicated by province of notification, but by province of residence or domicile. The following are the cases of positivity in the area with the change from yesterday. To date, there are 4,734 cases in Florence (121 more than yesterday), 1,061 in Prato (25 more), 1,139 in Pistoia (16 more), 1,578 in Massa (13 more), 2,015 in Lucca (27 more), 1,933 in Pisa (71 more), 846 in Livorno (16 more), 1,361 in Arezzo (26 more), 746 in Siena (14 more), 649 in Grosseto (10 more).
There are 550 positive cases reported in Tuscany, but residing in other regions. Therefore, there are 162 cases found today in the Central Local Health Authority, 127 in the Northwest, 50 in the Southeast. Tuscany is confirmed in 10th place in Italy in terms of the number of cases (including residents and non-residents), with around 445 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (Italian average of around 553 x 100,000, yesterday’s figure). The reporting provinces with the highest rate are Massa Carrara with 810 cases x 100,000 inhabitants, Lucca with 519, Florence with 468, Livorno with 253, the lowest. In total, 4,590 people are isolated at home, as they have mild symptoms that do not require hospital treatment or are asymptomatic (311 more than yesterday, plus 7.3%). There are 10,325 (442 more than yesterday, more 4.5%) people, also isolated, under active surveillance, for having had contact with infected people (Asl Centro 3,640, Northwest 4,799, Southeast 1,886). or
Hospitalizations
The people hospitalized in the beds dedicated to Covid patients today are a total of 159 (8 more than yesterday, plus 5.3%), 27 in intensive care (1 less than yesterday, minus 3.6%). In total there are 10,693 people cured (20 more than yesterday, plus 0.2%): 324 clinically cured people (stable compared to yesterday), that is, they became asymptomatic after presenting clinical manifestations associated with the infection and 10,369 (20 more compared to yesterday, plus 0.2%) declared completely cured, the so-called viral cures, with double negative swab. Today there are no new deaths. Therefore, 1170 deaths remain since the beginning of the epidemic as follows: 422 in Florence, 54 in Prato, 84 in Pistoia, 180 in Massa Carrara, 149 in Lucca, 97 in Pisa, 65 in Livorno, 53 in Arezzo , 33 in Siena, 25 in Grosseto, 8 people died on Tuscan soil but were residents outside the region. Tuscany’s crude death rate (number of deaths / resident population) for Covid-19 is 31.4 x 100,000 residents versus 59.7 x 100,000 for the Italian average (11th region). Regarding the provinces, the highest mortality rate is found in Massa Carrara (92.4 x100,000), Florence (41.7 x100,000) and Lucca (38.4 x100,000), the lowest in Grosseto (11.3 x 100,000).
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The progression of the infection.
The day-to-day trend of new positives (in parentheses the number of swabs performed and the percentage of positives found in that number of swabs)
- October 8th 339 (9050; 3.7%)
- October 7 300 (10,014; 3.00%)
- 6th of october 209 (6.965, 3.00%)
- October 5th: 185 (5,314; 3.5%)
- 4th of October:188 (8,305; 2.2%)
- October 3: 197 (8,839; 2.2%)
- October 2nd: 223 (8,873; 2.5%)
- October 1st: 144 (8,253; 1.7%)
- September 30th: 120 (7.703; 1.5%)
- September 29th: 56 (4,731; 1.2%)
- September 28: 85 (4,396; 1.9%)
- September 27th: 101 (7.541, 1.3%)
- September 26: 110 (6,953, 1.6%)
- September 25th: 139 (7,245; 1.9%)
- 24th September: 156 (7,710; 2%)
- September 23: 90 (7.502; 1.2%)
- September 22: 74 (5,632; 1.3%)
- September 21st: 84 (4,138; 2%)
- September 20: 147 (8,036; 1.8%)
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