"We need the utmost caution throughout the national territory. We must not undermine the progress of the last few weeks, the result of the sacrifices made so far. Yellow zone does not mean no danger. The virus is circulating and the risk, also due to the variations, remains high. We cannot. playing with fire ".
This is the appeal of the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, published on Facebook.
New peak of Covid hospitalized in Umbria
, 484 today, 26 more than yesterday, according to the Region's website.
There are 73 patients in intensive care, plus three.
The new positives ascertained on the last day are 382, up 8.8 percent on yesterday, 177 healed, and three dead, 834. The currently positives reach 6,784, 202 more than yesterday.
3,611 swabs and 4,010 antigen tests were analyzed in the last day.
The total positivity rate is 5 percent, 10.57 percent on antigenic alone (yesterday 8.2%).
Iss: on the variants rigor protections but does not change strategy
- "At the moment, no scientific evidence has emerged of the need to change the measures, which therefore remain those already in use: masks, social distancing and hand hygiene. The possibility of coming into contact with a variant must in any case induce particular prudence and strict adherence to protection measures ".
The ISS writes it, which has compiled the Faq on the topic of variants.
And on the tests to identify them: "To be able to discriminate if an infection is determined by a variant, a highly specialized specific test is required which is called sequencing, in which the exact composition of the virus genome is determined".