TRIESTE The arrival of the usual weekly report from the ministry on the progress of the pandemic in Friuli Venezia Giulia initially threatened to sound the alarm again: the data that now serves as the main reference, the transmission rate of the infection (Rt) , was 1.03, a sizable increase from last week’s 0.68. With a contagion index higher than 1, the return to the orange zone would have been automatic.
The subsequent meeting of the regional task force led by Professor Fabio Barbone, which was also attended by President Massimiliano Fedriga and the Deputy Governor with responsibility for Health Riccardo Riccardi, in addition to a direct clarification with the national control room in Rome, allowed to exclude too worrying scenarios.
In fact, it turned out that in the complex calculations carried out, which include a total of 21 parameters, the data dating back to the period around January 10, those of the third wave peak, had an impact. The reassurance then came from the capital: the “anomalous” RT will not have repercussions on the measures to be implemented and the region will therefore remain in the yellow zone next week, with the addition of the prudential forecast of a further downward trend in infections also in the third week of February.
According to the ministerial report, the occupancy rate of the total beds in Intensive Care for Covid patients (data updated to February 2) is slightly down, which goes from 37% to 35%, and that of the total beds in the Medical Area that has dropped from 52% last week to 45%. As for the percentage of positive swabs, it went from 12.5 to 12%.- .
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