The number of new ones infected by Covid in the last 24 hours in Italy is stable: they are 233, compared to 230 yesterday. The victims are instead 11, decreasing after 20 yesterday. The total cases rise to 243,967, the deaths reach 35,028. The data were published by the Ministry of Health. The currently positive are now 12,456 (-17), the healed 196,483 (+237).
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ISS, SLIGHT INCREASE IN CASES, SALE R T Slight increase in coronaviruis cases in Italy. This was revealed by the weekly monitoring of the Ministry of Health and ISS for the period 6 - 12 July. Overall, however, the overall picture of the transmission and impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Italy remains "low critical". In almost all Regions, new cases of infection were diagnosed in the monitoring week July 6-12, with cases increasing compared to the previous monitoring week in some Regions. This feedback is largely due to the intense screening activity with identification of close contacts. This was revealed by the weekly report of the Ministry of Health and ISS. In addition to the outbreaks attributable to the reimportation of the infection, some small transmission chains are reported, the origin of which remains unknown. In some Regions / PAs, the presence of new cases of infection imported from another Region and / or from a foreign country is reported. The epidemiological situation is therefore "extremely fluid". (At the national level, there is a slight increase in the number of new cases diagnosed with a national transmissibility index (Rt) of 1.01. This indicates that "the transmission in our country has been substantially stationary in the past few weeks." weekly from the ministry of health and institute of health for the week of 6-12 july There are six regions with the Rt index above 1. Based on the data of the monitoring conducted by the ISS and the ministry of health, the regions that the thresholds are: Emilia Romagna (1.06), Lazio (1.23), Lombardy (1.14), Piedmont (1.06), Tuscany (1.24) and Veneto (1.61).
Necessary "to continue to behave inspired by prudence. For its part, public health must intervene promptly to intercept any outbreaks and contain them quickly". This was said in a video commentary on the weekly monitoring, the Director General for Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Giovanni Rezza. "The number of cases compared to last week is more or less stable with an Rt of 1.01" with an oscillation that goes slightly above and slightly below the unit. "This is due - explains Rezza - to the presence of more or less significant outbreaks often due to cases imported from abroad".
NEW CLUSTER IN SAVONA A new Covid19 cluster has been identified in a restaurant in Savona. This was confirmed by the governor Giovanni Toti. "The cluster involves a new number of positive people - he said -. Currently there are 18 new cases of contagion. 100 verification swabs have been carried out". one of the people who was in the restaurant where the new Covid-19 cluster would be generated is Matteo Aicardi, the centroboa of Pro Recco and the national water polo team, hospitalized on 15 July in the Albenga hospital. It's a "quite large cluster. Patients are all fine, but this confirms that the virus is still circulating," Toti said.
CLOSED BATHING FACILITY IN OSTIA "Asl Roma 3 has ordered the closure of a bathing establishment in Ostia pending verification of the contacts of a positive case of nationality of Bangladesh". This was communicated by the Covid-19 Crisis Unit of the Lazio Region. "The epidemiological investigation is already being carried out by the ASL starting from the employees of the structure and from the close contacts of the man who was placed in isolation - continues the Regional Crisis Unit -. The index case seems to be a roommate always of Bangladesh nationality gone to Milan. Start the national contact tracing procedures ".
