New cases of coronavirus in Italy drop to 17,012.
This was announced by the bulletin of the Ministry of Health, specifying that 141 victims have been registered in the last 24 hours.
The number of tampons also fell:
124,686, about 40,000 fewer than yesterday,
when there were 161,880.
Patients in intensive care due to Covid have increased by 76, reaching 1,284.
The people hospitalized are 12,997, 991 more than yesterday.
There are 222,403 positive people in home isolation.
The healed and discharged are 268,626, 2,423 more than yesterday.
The percentage of positives on the swabs carried out is around 13.6%.
This can be seen from the new bulletin issued by the Ministry of Health.
The swabs carried out in the last 24 hours (124,686) are about 40,000 fewer than yesterday, when they were 161,880.
At this time of the epidemic it makes no sense to swab 'carpet', it is better to focus on tracing contacts and make them only 'targeted',
but without getting to do them only to those who are symptomatic.
This is the comment of the epidemiologist Donato Greco on the hypothesis advanced by some regions to test only the symptomatic and family members.
"Objectively, an extraordinary mass of tampons on the asymptomatic does not make sense, it is better to concentrate on the symptomatic and then insist and strengthen the tracing, which is in difficulty, and then tamp down close contacts - said Greco -. Now it happens instead that tampons are made. unmotivated, perhaps because there has been a case in your condominium, or because some doctor prescribes it lightly, with the result of clogging the system ".
