Covid: Agenas, 10% hospitalization in Sicily, 9% intensive in Sardinia

The percentage of beds in Italian hospital wards occupied by Covid patients rises to 4%.

This is what the monitoring of the National Agency for Regional Health Services shows for 1 August, which sees a growth of 1% compared to 31 July.

The percentage had touched the minimum level of 2% and had remained so until 25 July, from the 26th it began to rise, reflecting the increase in infections of the past weeks.

Intensive care is also growing: 3% of the places are occupied by Covid patients and the 1% increase, after weeks of stability at 2%, started on 30 July.

Sardinia, which went from 5% to 9% in a week, is the region that sees the greatest growth in intensive care units occupied by Covid patients, followed by Lazio and Sicily at 5%. While for Covid hospitalizations in ordinary wards, the regions with the greatest growth are Sicily and Calabria, which reached 10% and 9% respectively in a week, followed by Campania at 6%. The daily monitoring of Agenas highlights how hospitals in the South see values ​​grow faster than the national average. According to the new national parameters, the critical threshold is set at 15% for ordinary hospitalizations and 10% for intensive care. (HANDLE).