Florence, 21 November 2020 – The new positives are falling: they are 1.892 more than yesterday (1,200 identified in the course of tracing and 692 from screening activities). yesterday there were 2207. in total in Tuscany there are 92,776 cases of Coronavirus positivity. The healed grew by 7.4% and reached 37,471 (40.4% of total cases). The swabs performed reached 1,440,310, 18,527 more than yesterday, of which 10.2% positive. On the other hand, 7,766 subjects tested today (excluding control swabs), of which 24.4% were positive. To these are added the 4,500 rapid antigenic swabs performed today. Currently positive are 53,140 today, -1.4% compared to yesterday.
L‘indice Rt, that describes the infectiousness rate of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, in Tuscany it fell 1.8 to 1,3. A lowering that made Governor Eugenio Giani breathe a sigh of relief, who said he was “serene and optimistic”. The lowering of the RT is a fundamental datum for the evaluation of the risk bands.
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