(ANSA) - BARI, 08 NOV - "I fear that the measures adopted in Puglia are insufficient to avert the collapse of the health system": said the president of Fnomceo FilippoAnelli, who is also president of the Bari Medical Association.
"The lockdown ' soft 'of the orange zone - he highlights - will explain its effects in 20 days, when it risks being too late. Even considering that the growth trend remains constant and does not have an exponential trend, at the Immaculate Conception we risk having 400 deaths and the saturation of places read Covid that Puglia has available ".
The data referred to by Anelli, informs a note, are the regional ones made known by the Ministry of Health and updated to yesterday.
In the week from 31 October to 7 November in Puglia there was an increase of 5,180 positives, with an average of +740 subjects positive for SAR-COV-2 per day.
In the same period, admissions for Covid-19 went from 638 to 876, with an average of 34 new admissions per day, while intensive care admissions went from 87 to 124, with an average of 5 new admissions per day.
Deaths have increased from 723 to 816, with an average of 13 people dying from Covid-19 per day.
"If this trend does not slow down - underlines Anelli - in the space of 30 days we will have over 22 thousand positive and 1876 beds, of the 2000 planned to date for Covid patients, occupied".
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