Rome, 21 July 2021 – Four Regions since yellow zone. There is pressure on confrontation with the government for the review of the parameters to apply “colors” to the Region because, with the current legislation, already four Lazio, Veneto, Sardinia and Sicily – the yellow zone restrictions should apply. With the surge in infections in recent days these four regions have exceeded the quota 50 weekly cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants, the threshold that makes you leave the white area to end up in the yellow one.
The Lazio in particular, with the strong growth of cases in the last week (in Rome cases quintupled), reaches an incidence of 54 cases per hundred thousand. The Veneto, with an incidence of 54.5 per hundred thousand, and the Sicily, 56.5 per hundred thousand. However, it has the highest incidence Sardinia, 64.4 per hundred thousand. Just three weeks ago they all had incidences of around 10 cases per hundred thousand, even less.
No other Region comes close to 50 cases, but some are over 30, which with the current rate of growth does not shelter from risk of further deterioration: the Tuscany is at 34.3, Umbria at 31.7, the Province of Trento to 30.3. It’s still not that troubling Lombardy, which settles at 26.3. In any case, things change if we look at the admissions data, the new parameter proposed to decide the “color” changes object of the comparison between the Regions and the government.
Waiting for the government’s decisions on the matter, which should be taken tomorrow, 21 July – or, according to sources of the executive in the evening, Thursday if the ongoing interlocutions on the new law decree take further time – the terapie intensive in Veneto, for example, those of Lazio at 3%, Sicily at 3.3% and Sardinia at 1.4%. One of the hypotheses on the table is precisely that of triggering the yellow zone when it exceeds 5%, while the “red” risk threshold would trigger with 30%.
The numbers of intensive care in the four Regions currently “from yellow” would avoid the risk of leaving the white zone already using the monitoring data of this Friday, it should also always be remembered that hospitalizations tend to follow the infections by several days. In any case, the key factor remains that linked to vaccines, currently the only elements capable of cushioning the surge in infections and, above all, of reducing the risks of hospitalization and the need for intensive care.
