Covid emergency in Italy, today for the first time the positive cases have exceeded the threshold of 30 thousand. In fact, according to the bulletin of the Ministry of Health, the people who tested positive for Coronavirus are today in our country 31.084. Furthermore the increase in victims is 199 in 24 hours for a total of 38.321 deaths.
Today the threshold of 30 thousand positive cases has been exceeded
"The percentage of positives on swabs carried out exceeds 10 percent and is not a good indicator. It means that the epidemic is galloping, that the virus it circulates quite fast". He stated it Gianni Rezza, Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health. The ministerial data also shows that they are 16.994 hospitalized in the ordinary wards of hospitals, with an increase of 1.030 patients compared to yesterday, while in intensive care there are now 1.746 people, 95 more than yesterday. The increase in positives in one day is 26.595 which brings the total number of patients to 325.786. On the other hand, the increase in the healed is much smaller: 4.285 in the last 24 hours for a total of 283.567.
"Bend the curve to regain tracking capacity"
"The role of general practitioners is crucial to ensure the optimal management of Covid patients. They are at the center of this care process and our thanks go to them". These are the considerations of the president of the Superior Health Council, Franco Locatelli. "Tracking remains our goal. To bring it back completely under control we need to lower the curve again.
A positive person even if they have 5 close contacts in the past 48 hours, and often have more than 5, is a huge multiplier. The human resources to be able to contact all these people are difficult to put in place. So the theme is to reduce the number of cases, bend the curve and by bending the curve we regain the ability to trace all ". These are the declarations of president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro.
Positive cases increasing exponentially
The epidemic in Italy is "rapidly worsening", compatible with a type 3 scenario but evolving towards a type 4 scenario. It should be noted that in some Italian regions the transmission speed is already compatible with a scenario 4 with the risk of the health services holding up in the short term.
A situation is therefore confirmed "overall and widely very serious on the national territory with the risk of important short-term criticalities in numerous regions and autonomous provinces". This week, for the first time, overshooting was reported in some territories of the critical threshold of employment in medical areas (40%) and there is a high probability that 15 regions and autonomous provinces will exceed the critical thresholds for intensive care.
