It will be the effect of the Easter tables but the contagion curve has started to rise again, as have deaths, while the pressure on hospitals remains substantially unchanged, with a slight increase in hospitalizations in medical wards. The epidemic situation in Italy on the eve of the farewell to the green pass and masks in many indoor places is photographed by the usual weekly monitoring by the ISS, being examined this morning by the control room.
In fact, the weekly incidence of cases rises from 675 to 699, while the Rt, the contagion index, drops from 0.96 just to 0.93.
The occupancy rate of the beds decreased slightly, from 4.2 to 3.8% in intensive care and from 15.8% to 15.6% in medical wards, with the usual regional differences however, because Calabria a has 28.5% of bed occupancy w Umbria even at 31.4%, while Lombardy does not go beyond 12.4% and Piedmont at 11.6%.
However, the fact remains that after last week’s sharp decline, new cases of Covid-19 in Italy are rising again. From 20 to 26 April they were 22.7% more than the previous week, going from 353,193 to 433,321. There are 11 provinces with an incidence of more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and in all Regions there is a percentage increase in new cases: from +2.9% in Piedmont to +44.8% in Basilicata. The swabs carried out went from 2,294,395 in the week of April 13-19 to 2,563,195 in the week of April 20-26, with an increase of 11.7%.
The average of new daily cases has risen to almost 62,000, the positivity rate for molecular drugs has exceeded 18% and the number of positives, widely underestimated according to the Gimbe Foundation, exceeds 1.23 million.
