There are
19,350 positive tests for coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Italy
, according to data from the Ministry of Health illustrated by Gianni Rezza of the ISS at a press conference.
About 180,000 swabs
were carried out
(182,100 to be exact)
, over 50,000 more than yesterday.
The percentage of positivity is around 10%, Rezza said.
The victims are 785.
There are 3,663 patients in intensive care in Italy, down by 81 units compared to yesterday, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are now 32,811, down by 376 compared to yesterday.
There are 743,471 in home isolation, down 8,069 compared to yesterday.
The number of discharged or recovered have reached that of currently positive coronavirus.
According to data from the new bulletin of the Ministry of Health, the currently positive in Italy today are 779,945, while the healed are 784,595, with a difference of just 4,650 cases.
THE CONFERENCE
The positivity rate
, i.e. the ratio between coronavirus positives found and tests carried out,
falls by almost 2% compared to yesterday
.
It is now at 10.6%, down by 1.9% compared to the previous day (it was 12.5% yesterday).
"Today the number of new cases is decreasing but it is still very high.
Individual and collective behaviors determine the probability of spreading the virus. So there are no shortcuts because we are the protagonists".
This was stated by the president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro.
There has been an extraordinary effort in a very short time to be able to develop anti-Covid vaccines
, but this - said Brusaferro - does not mean that safety procedures are waived, so we are not talking about exceptions to safety assessment mechanisms. and effectiveness.
"It will be a covid Christmas, which we hope is unique and we hope last with respect to the history we will live
. This means - said Brusaferro - to organize ourselves avoiding aggregations in the most decisive way possible. we will behave. We must organize ourselves to avoid them. considering that the most fragile people risk more ".
"Phase 4 of pharmacovigilance on anti-Covid vaccines is post commercial authorization and will be carried out as for other vaccines
": said Gianni Rezza, at the press conference at the Ministry of Health on the analysis of the epidemiological situation.
"Compared to 1-2 weeks ago - said Rezza - we have an improving situation but this does not mean that it is a situation of tranquility, far from it, because finding over 19 thousand positives in one day means that we are still at very high levels. I remember that last week the incidence was 700 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, one of the highest in the EU after Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia ".
"We still have high incidences with a falling rt and a number of positive tests that tend to drop but are still very high".