Coronavirus, another 32,616 cases with 191 thousand tests. 331 deaths. Positive rate at 17%. Doctors: “So 10,000 deaths in a month, reverse the trend”

As often happens on weekends, new infections from coronavirus in our country: they have been ascertained in the last 24 hours 32,616 almost compared to almost 40 thousand yesterday. At the same time i decrease tampons, passed from 230 thousand to 191mila of today. Consequently, the rate of positivity (i.e. the relationship between positives and tests carried out) remains substantially stable at 17%. 331 the dead, while they are almost 1,500 new beds occupied by Covid patients: 115 need the intensive care, while 1,331 were hospitalized in other wards (400 only in Lombardy). People discharged from the hospital or heal instead they are 6,183. Numbers that prompt the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli, to ask for a “lockdown totale, throughout the country ”, mainly due to the increase in pressure on hospitals. “With the current average in a month we would arrive at additional 10 thousand deaths“.

Data from the Regions – Among the Regions is the Lombardy to record the greatest increase in infections (+6,318) compared to 38 thousand tests. 117 the dead. Here the positivity rate drops dramatically as it passes 25% to 16.5%. The number of hospitalizations is stable. Follows the Campania, once again struggling with more than 4 thousand cases daily (+4.601), while the Piedmont it drops to 3,884 with 3 thousand fewer swabs than yesterday. In Veneto another 3,362 infections have been ascertained, while Emilia Romagna, Lazio e Tuscany are close to 2,500. New cases drop to 886 in Liguria, exceeding one thousand in Sicily. The situation remains difficult in Puglia (+766) and in autonomous province of Bolzano (+781), followed by Umbria (+660) and Abruzzo (+584). Another 500 cases both in the Marche and in Friuli, while in Sardinia they stop at 424. +359 cases ascertained in Calabria, 246 in Basilicata and 182 in province of Trento. Valle d’Aosta e Molise, on the other hand, they return below 100, marking respectively +55 and +91 infections in 24 hours.

Weekly comparison and overall numbers – Looking at the spread of the coronavirus on weekly basis, it appears that between Monday and Sunday 225,788 cases were ascertained across the country, while last week they were 183,577. 14 days ago they slightly exceeded the threshold of 100 thousand (111,550), that is half than those ascertained in the last 7 days. Overall, 935,104 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Italy since the beginning of the emergency, 41,394 deaths. THE patients discharged from the hospital or recovered therefore rise to 335,074, while the currently positive citizens are 558,636 (529,447 in home isolation). Of these, 132,410 reside in Lombardy alone and almost 70,000 in Campania. Between intensive care units and Covid wards, the beds occupied by patients suffering from Sars-Cov2 are currently almost 30 thousand.

Rings: “We risk another 10 thousand deaths in a month” – According to Anelli della Fnomceo, therefore, if the epidemic trend does not undergo a reversal, we will find ourselves faced with a situation “dramatic“And a sharp increase in deaths, since the health system” will not be able to cope “and the effects of the new restrictive measures”they will not be seen for 20 days“. The total lockdown “is a strong request but they arrive from many parts of the country very worrying signs. The situation seems more and more to highlight a national health system on the ropes “. The numbers “tell us that this week we had one average of 1000 hospitalized per day; this means that, if the trend does not change, in the next 30 days, for the Immaculate Conception, we will have another 30 thousand hospitalized which will be added to the current 26 thousand “. Also this week, he states numbers in hand, “we also had an average of 116 hospitalized per day in intensive care, therefore in 30 days, always at an unchanged trend, we will have another 3 thousand people in intensive care, for a total of over 5 thousand patients in these departments. But about 5 thousand – he underlines – was the maximum endowment of beds available in intensive care last March, and if it is true that the government has increased the number of beds to about 11 thousand, it is also true that today we do not have enough doctors and nurses to manage these additional posts “.

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