Rome, November 17, 2020 – New bulletin in chiaroscuro on the progress of the Coronavirus in italia. I contagion they increase compared to yesterday, about 5 thousand more, in the face of a significant increase in tampons. “They are stable data, slightly decreasing,” he explains at a press conference Gianni Rezza, Director General of Prevention of Ministry of Health. Spike in deaths, with 731 dead in the last 24 hours (here yesterday’s Covid data). They also speed up the terapie intensive and hospitalizations.
Today’s data
The new infections from Coronavirus in Italia there are 32,191 compared to 208,458 swabs (yesterday about 152,000). The total number of infected people thus rises to 1,238,072. Second Rezza the daily variation (yesterday just over 27 thousand new cases) is due to the number of tests conducted and we are therefore in the presence of “a sort of stabilization” of the daily positives with, indeed, “perhaps with a slight decline”. A decline confirmed by the relationship between positives and swabs carried out which falls to 15.47%, two and a half points lower than yesterday (it was 17.92%).
I 731 deaths communicated in the last 24 hours are the highest figure of the second wave, there were not so many deaths since April 2 (then they were 766). It should be noted that the regions have specified that some of the deaths recorded today date back to days ago. The total number of victims amounts to 46,464.
New leap of terapie intensive: +120 today compared to +70 yesterday. Currently, there are 3,612 critically ill Covid patients: the ISS has confirmed that 11 thousand places can be activated in intensive care in Italy. These amount to 33,074 i ordinary hospitalizations, 538 in 24 hours (yesterday 489). Bli currently positive have risen to 733,810, an increase of 16,026 compared to yesterday. The healed and discharged since the beginning of the epidemic are 457,798, 15,434 more than on Monday.
As for the regions, the largest number of new cases registered once again in Lombardy (8,448), before Veneto (3.124), Campania (3.019), Piedmont (2.606) e Lazio (2.538).
Covid deaths
Of the 731 victims, the highest number of deaths is recorded in Lombardy (202), Veneto (100), Piedmont (73), Lazio (59) and Tuscany (52). Followed by Emilia Romagna (48), Sicily (39), Puglia (36), Liguria (20), Campania (19), Abruzzo (13), Umbria (13), Trentino Alto Adige (12), Sardinia (12), Marche (11), Friuli Venezia Giulia (10), Calabria (7), Valle d’Aosta (4), Molise (1). No deaths from Coronavirus today only in Basilicata.
The chart
The regions / Lombardy
With 202 deaths recorded today, the total number of victims of the Coronavirus in Lombardia since the beginning of the epidemic, 19,668 rises. In the last 24 hours, 8,448 new cases have been recorded compared to 38,283 swabs.
Veneto
In Veneto there are 3,124 positives more than yesterday. But, for the first time, the shelters go down to -3 compared to the previous day. At the same time the Region records the record of dead that I am +100 compared to yesterday (2,967 the total). Intensive care also recorded a negative figure with +15 hospitalized, but the discharged were +147.
Emilia Romagna
Covid cases slow down Emilia Romagna. In the last 24 hours, they registered 2,219 new positives in the region, of which 1,235 symptomatic and 984 without symptoms, out of 22,381 swabs carried out, in addition to 3,784 serological tests. The ratio between new cases and swabs is also back below 10%: 9.9% to be precise. The new deaths, unfortunately, are 48.
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Piedmont
There are 2,606 new cases of Covid in Piedmont on 16,131 swabs analyzed. Atrre 73 victims, of which 9 occurred today. The number of hospitalized is still increasing: 5,150 (+ 76 compared to yesterday), of which 384 (+6 compared to yesterday), in intensive care.
Lazio
Other 2,538 cases of Coronavirus in Lazio compared to about 25 thousand tampons. on 25 thousand swabs. 59 deaths in the last 24 hours, another 494 recovered. The ratio between positives and swabs drops slightly, hospitalizations drop (-33) while intensive care increases (+30)
Tuscany
In Tuscany there are 84,197 positive cases, 2,361 more than yesterday (1,666 identified in the course of tracing and 695 from screening activities). Today there are 52 new deaths: 28 men and 24 women with an average age of 83 years. The healed grew by 7.7% and reached 28,078 (33.3% of total cases). The swabs performed reached 1.363.146, 15,695 more than yesterday, of which 15% positive. The currently positive are today 54,152, + 0.6% compared to yesterday. The hospitalized are 2,069 (8 more than yesterday), of which 277 in intensive care (7 less).
Liguria
685 are new infected by the Covid in Liguria , identified on 5,670 swabs. 1,510 people are hospitalized in the hospital, 18 more than yesterday. Of these, 117 are in intensive care. Another 20 victims in the last 24 hours: these are people between 70 and 94 years old, who died between 5 and 16 November.
Market
In the Market have been identified in the past 24 hours 357 new cases, 29% of the 1,229 swabs processed. Compared to yesterday, compared to an increase in positives and swabs processed (there were 282 out of 928 tests), the incidence decreased (yesterday to 30.4%). The total of positive cases identified throughout the region since the start of the pandemic crisis rises to 23,955.
Umbria
Highlights a decrease of nine Covid hospitalized in the hospitals of theUmbria, today 438 against 447 yesterday, 70 of which in intensive care, two less, today’s update of the Umbria Region on the pandemic. 351 new cases registered, 19,510 total, compared to 5,603 swabs analyzed, 367,077 since the beginning of the pandemic. With a positive index dropped to 6.26 percent against 37.4 percent yesterday. However, the number of victims is still high, 13 in the last 24 hours, 275 total, while the healed were 333, 7,986 overall. The current positives are therefore 11,249, five more than yesterday.
Campania
The positives are down, but so are the swabs processed in the last 24 hours in Campania. There are 3,019 new cases, another 19 died and 1,788 recovered. Another 9 patients admitted to intensive care, 201 in total out of 656 places available. As for hospitalization, we are at 2,236 occupied places (+46 compared to yesterday) out of 3,160 available.
Puglia
There are 1,234 new cases of Coronavirus in Puglia, where 6,228 tests were recorded. 665,959 tests have been carried out since the start of the emergency. 9,052 are the patients recovered. 26,607 are currently positive cases. The total of positive Covid cases in Puglia is 36,716. There are 36 new deaths.
The other regions
The number of new infections continues to rise in Basilicata: 296 new positives against 2371 processed swabs. In Sardinia there are 502 new cases and 12 deaths. Another 145 infected by the Covid in the Aosta Valley, where four additional victims are recorded.
Latest news
Meanwhile, the Christmas. Per Andrea Crisanti, director of Microbiology and Virology in Padua, a reopening “is unacceptable”. But Conte hopes to be able to restore oxygen to production activities and is working on a new Dpcm ad hoc for the holidays. Regarding the situation in our country for the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco “we are on the plateau” and “there will be no peak, thanks to the measures adopted and the progressive lockdown in the red and orange regions”.
On the contagion front they continue to be recorded positive in Serie A (Alexander Kolarov dell’Inter, Ruslan Malinovskyi of Atalanta and the Milan assistant coach Giacomo Murelli), but also the contagion of Damiano and Victoria of the band of Maneskin. But the death of 5 other doctors engaged in the fight against Covid, which increase the deaths of white coats to 196 according to the data released by Fnomceo. The numbers arriving from the rest of the world are also heavy: the United States have recorded more than 120,000 cases in the last 24 hours, while the Great Britain exceeded 70,000 deaths in 2020 since the start of the pandemic compared to the average of previous years.
