Coronavirus sufferers are falling again . There are 105,814 in total, 290 less than yesterday . The increase on Sunday had been 256 while on Saturday there had been a decrease of 680 patients. The data was provided by the Civil Protection . I healed were 66,624, an increase of 1,696 compared to yesterday. And the downward trend of ICU admissions continuesand for the first time since March 16 the number drops below two thousand. To date they are 1,956, 53 less than yesterday. Of these, 680 are in Lombardy, 26 fewer than yesterday. Of the 105,813 patients overall, 20,353 are hospitalized with symptoms, 1,019 fewer than yesterday - the highest number since the emergency began - and 83,504 are those in home isolation, 782 more than yesterday. As for the victims , they rose to 26,977, an increase of 333 in one day. Yesterday the increase had been 260, the lowest since March 15.
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The numbers show the "success of the containment measures adopted, but we must reflect as we move towards cautious openings: we will have to monitor the number of cases with great attention, for example using intensive care as an indicator, to evaluate the effectiveness of the measures but also the ability in openings to contain infection ". So Silvio Brusaferro of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in a press conference on Civil Protection. "The trend beyond weekend decreases indicates a progressive decrease in deaths and cases of infection, albeit with fewer swabs made. R with 0 shows a decrease. But the circulation of the virus continues, while the number of deaths as we've always said it's a drag on the infections that happened a few weeks ago. " Visits to elderly relatives and family members must be made using " great caution ", stressed Brusaferro, remembering that these are attentions that must be kept above all by those who, for professional reasons, have close contacts with other people. "Elderly people, as we have said several times, are the ones most at risk - stressed Brusaferro - one must be very careful in making these visits".
"Contagions out of control again? It is the scenario that no one wants to imagine, at the moment we have no elements to think about such a scenario, but it cannot be completely excluded . We expect cases, they can happen in small communities and we will have to intervene promptly, or in familiar contexts. If instead there is an uncontrolled spread, with a number of cases of which you are unable to rebuild the chain, this is the most worrying scenario ". So the president of the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) Silvio Brusaferro at a press conference at the Civil Protection. "Before the vaccine it will be difficult to get back to close contacts (between people), now we have to get used to this perspective," he added.
" The ability to identify local outbreaks becomes decisive in the next phase, " added Brusaferro stressing that the indication given to the government is to have "generalized measures" for all of Italy with "generalized local monitoring" precisely to identify new clusters . "We need to have the ability to intervene in a more radical way to modulate much more localized measures. We need a close monitoring of local realities to adopt more appropriate measures in that specific context" with possible red areas.
"One of the indicators that we share with the Regions is to have a growing timeliness of swabs even outside the hospital context and for symptomatic fear. Now we do more than 60,000 swabs a day , we must push to reduce the temporal distance between positivity and diagnosis". This was stated by Silvio Brusaferro from ISS. "A document is under development, which will be made public in the next few hours with indications for phase 2 - he adds -, we must push hard on the organization to reduce the lack of homogeneity in the area". "We have no reports from the Operations Committee on the needs or shortages of tampons - Angelo Borrelli replied -, I confirm the availability of tampons".
THE DATA BY REGION: From the data of the Civil Protection it emerges that there are 35,441 patients in Lombardy (275 more than yesterday), 12,225 in Emilia-Romagna (-116), 15,508 in Piedmont (-11), 8,860 in Veneto (- 278), 5,983 in Tuscany (-86), 3,580 in Liguria (+100), 3,310 in the Marche (+2), 4,562 in Lazio (-11), 2,877 in Campania (-47), 1,707 in the Province of Trento (+ 25), 2,912 in Puglia (-25), 1,258 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+10), 2,123 in Sicily (+16), 2,030 in Abruzzo (-38), 940 in the province of Bolzano (-54), 287 in Umbria (-9), 776 in Sardinia (-7), 782 in Calabria (-15), 235 in Aosta Valley (-19), 217 in Basilicata (-2), 200 in Molise (+0). As for the victims, there are 13,449 in Lombardy (+124), 3,431 in Emilia-Romagna (+45), 2,878 in Piedmont (+55), 1,344 in Veneto (+29), 795 in Tuscany (+17), 1,128 in Liguria (+14), 884 in the Marche (+5), 397 in Lazio (+8), 352 in Campania (+7), 407 in the province of Trento (+2), 405 in Puglia (+6), 271 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+7), 231 in Sicily (+3), 299 in Abruzzo (+4), 270 in the province of Bolzano (+1), 65 in Umbria (+1), 109 in Sardinia (+0) , 83 in Calabria (+3), 133 in Valle d'Aosta (+2), 25 in Basilicata (+0), 21 in Molise (+0).
To date, 1,789,662 swabs have been carried out, involving a total of 1,237,317 people. The increase in the number of swabs compared to yesterday is 32,003.
In Lombardy, the pressure on hospitals continues to drop: 956 fewer admissions to non-intensive care units, to which must be added 26 fewer beds occupied in intensive care. A total of 13,449 deaths, an increase of 124 over yesterday. The total number of positives in the region was 73,479 with an increase of 590 but only 5,053 swabs were made (12,642 those carried out yesterday). These are the data disclosed by the Lombardy Region. In the region there are 680 people hospitalized in intensive care and "compared to April 3 they have more than halved, given that we had about 1400 people in intensive care" : underlined the vice president of the Lombardy Region Fabrizio Sala. "This means that the lockdown measures have worked," he added, recalling that "we are going below 8,000 inpatients and these are extremely important data."
There are about twenty - as far as we learn - the companies that have responded to the expression of interest of Aria, the purchasing center of the Lombardy Region, for the supply of tests for the search for neutralizing antibodies against Sarv-cov-2 (Covid 19). The notice, published on April 20, closed today.
The Region is now waiting for the Istituto Superiore di Sanità to communicate which tests, among the candidate ones, are certified. In the meantime, the experimentation of the only validated serological test continues, namely that developed by the Policlinico San Matteo of Pavia with the multinational Diasorin.
