Italy exceeds the threshold of 100 thousand victims for Covid.
A little over a year after the death of
Adriano Trevisan
, the 78-year-old from Vo 'Euganeo, the first victim of the virus in our country, the total number of people killed by the virus has reached 100,103.
In the last 24 hours, the increase is 318.
There are 2,700 patients in intensive care for Covid in Italy, 95 more than yesterday in the daily balance between entries and exits.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, daily admissions to resuscitation are 231 (yesterday they were 161).
In the ordinary departments there are instead 21,831 people, an increase of 687 units compared to yesterday.
There are 13,902 positive tests for coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health, which bring the total from the beginning of the emergency to 3,081,368.
Yesterday there were 20,765 infections.
There are 184,684 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday there were 271,336.
The positivity rate is stable at 7.5% (yesterday it was 7.6%).
Agenas, 11 regions with ICUs beyond the critical threshold
- The weight of the pandemic in Italian ICUs continues to grow again, where the occupation of beds by Covid patients returns to reach, at national level, 29% or just one point below the defined critical threshold.
And 11 regions surpass it.
This is what emerges from the monitoring carried out by Agenas (National Agency for Regional Health Services) updated on 7 March, which shows, compared to the data of 1 March, a growth of 4% at national level and two more regions beyond the threshold.
The 11 regions that exceed 30%, or the level defined as 'critical' since once exceeded it is difficult to assist other non-Covid patients, are exceeded by: Abruzzo (40%), Emilia Romagna (37%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (33%), Lombardy (40%), Marche (42%), Molise (49%), PA of Bolzano (38%), PA of Trento (53%), Piedmont (32%), Tuscany (34%) , Umbria (58%).
As for the places occupied by Covid patients in hospital wards of infectious diseases, pulmonology and general medicine, the national share rises to 33%, still below the critical threshold of 40%, but 3 percentage points more than the data of the first. March.
In this case, the critical threshold is exceeded by 7 regions, or 2 more than a week ago: Abruzzo (43%), Emilia Romagna (45%), Lombardy (44%), Marche (52%), Molise ( 43%), Piedmont (40%) and Umbria (50%).
Meanwhile, the Regions split over the closures
.
The hypothesis of introducing more restrictive measures to limit the new spread of the pandemic, thanks to the variants, divides the governors, while the red zones multiply in the local area: starting in
Naples
, from 10 the provinces of
Fermo and Pesaro-Urbino
, Monday could also touch
Piedmont
.
The governor of
Veneto
, Zaia, warns that at the moment there are no further restrictions beyond the orange zone;
the president of
Liguria,
Toti, says he is "firmly opposed" to weighing down the measures.
