Rt index on the rise and intensive care on the critical threshold: the pandemic does not slow down! They are 18.627 the new cases of Covid recorded in Italy in the last 24 hours (yesterday 19.978); while 361 are the victims (yesterday 483). They were 139.758 swabs carried out (172.119 yesterday) while the ratio with new cases (18.627) rises to 13,3% (+ 1,7% compared to yesterday). These are the figures released by the Ministry of Health for today.
There are 2.615 patients in intensive care for Covid (+22 compared to yesterday) with 181 new daily admissions. Patients with symptoms, on the other hand, reach 23.427 (+167 compared to yesterday). In Italy there are 1.617.804 discharged or healed (+11.174 compared to yesterday), the currently positive 579.932 (+7.090 compared to yesterday). The total victims are 78.755 and the cases 2.276.491.
Intensive care once again on the critical threshold
After a period of relative 'respite' - in which there had been a slowdown in the curve of cases from Covid-19 - the epidemiological situation in Italy returns to worsen. In fact, the transmissibility index Rt rose above 1 (to 1,03), for the first time after 6 weeks. The incidence is also growing again and the impact of the pandemic on welfare services is increasing. As a result of this, the intensive care units that are located above the critical threshold of 30 per cent of employment at the national level. The data from the weekly monitoring of the Ministry of Health and Higher Institute of Health (ISS) indicate, this week, a "general worsening" of the pandemic indices.
Data that lead to an “increased risk of a epidemic not controlled and not manageable ". An alarming picture that, it is noted in the monitoring, highlights how the epidemic is "in a delicate phase that seems to herald a new rapid increase in the number of cases in the coming weeks. This, in the event that more stringent mitigation measures are not defined and rigorously implemented ". After the Christmas holidays, therefore, the contagion data becomes more critical even if, the president of the ISS specified Silvio Brusaferro we will have to wait until next week for more precise data.
