After 13 consecutive weeks of increased infections from Covid-19, the last week saw an inversion of the curve of new cases
, which were 1,197,970 compared to 1,243,789 of the previous 7 days, with a decrease of 3, 7%.
As regards hospital structures, hospitalizations in the medical area increased by 3% (20,037 compared to 19,448), while those in intensive care decreased by 1.4% (1,691 compared to 1,715).
But deaths are also growing: they were 2,519 compared to 2,266 in the previous week, with + 11.2%.
This is what emerges from the monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation for the week 19-25 January.
In 51 provinces, the incidence of new cases of Covid-19 exceeds 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
And, in the week of January 19-25, in 12 Regions there is a percentage increase in infections, with an increase ranging from 0.7% in Umbria to 38.1% in the Marches.
In 9 regions, on the other hand, there is a reduction ranging from -1.4% in Abruzzo to -35.8% in Calabria.
Prato (2,129), Teramo (2,063), Lecce (2,030), Grosseto (2,023), Arezzo (2,012) and Cuneo (2,002).
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After the surge of the past weeks, in the last seven days the number of total swabs carried out in Italy has dropped by 4.5%, from 7,672,378 in the week of January 12-18 to 7,327,579 in the week of January 19-25.
The decrease concerns both rapid buffers (-67,898, equal to -1.2%) and molecular ones (-276,901, equal to -13.9%).
"These numbers - explains
Nino Cartabellotta
, president of Gimbe - confirm that
the circulation of the virus remains high and that, given the rise in the rate of molecular positivity, the decline in the contagion curve must be interpreted with caution
".
