The number of cases tested was slightly higher than the previous week: 429,984 vs 394,396. The positive / tested cases ratio also increased: 4% vs 3.1%.
The number of deaths and intensive care is growing Compared to the previous week, there is also an increase in deaths +18 (+ 13.1%), in patients admitted to intensive care: +48 (+ 17.7%), in patients with symptoms: +577 (+18.9 %); new cases: +17,252 (+ 42.4%); currently positive cases: +9,504 (+ 18.8%); cases tested +35,588 (+ 9%); total buffers: +63,351 (+ 9.7%).
“New cases have increased tenfold since mid-July” “In the last week – says Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation – the contagion curve has soared, as a result of the net increase in the positive / cases tested ratio. The constant growth of patients hospitalized with symptoms and of those in intensive care”.
Since mid-July, new weekly cases have more than tenfolded (from just over 1,400 to more than 17,000), with an increase in the positive / case ratio from 0.8% to 4%. This trend has generated the progressive increase in the currently positive cases, which have quintupled since the end of July: from 12,482 to 60,134. “The increase in the positive / tested cases ratio – explains the president – confirms that the virus circulates in a more sustained manner: for this reason, in the Regions where it exceeds 5% it is crucial to strengthen testing & tracing activities”. In the week 30 September-6 October, these are Liguria (7.7%), Campania (6.3%), the Autonomous Province of Trento (6.8%), Piedmont (6.2%) and Valle dʻAosta ( 5.4%).
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