After 5 weeks the Covid infection curve is reversed: + 1.5% in 7 days
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Against this change of gear
, hospitalizations in the medical area (-16.1%) and in intensive care (-16.4%) have dropped;
deaths are also down (-19.3%)
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These are the main data of the independent monitoring of
the Gimbe Foundation
for the week 2-8 March.
In particular - says Gimbe - there has been an increase in new cases (+4,179) despite a drop in tampons (-8.8%).
Deaths are still decreasing: 1,201 in the last 7 days (95 in previous periods), 172 per day against 213 in the previous week.
In intensive care -116 and in the ward -1,680 admissions.
After five weeks, explains the president of the Gimbe Foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, "the decline of new weekly cases stops, despite a drop in the number of tampons of 8.8% compared to the previous week. The new cases amounted to around 279 thousand , with an increase of 1.5% and a 7-day moving average rising from 39,339 cases on 1st March to 39,936 on 8 March (+ 5.8%) ".
In absolute terms, the new cases in the period considered are 279,555 against 275,376 in the previous week.
The currently positive are 1,011,521
, people in home isolation 1,002,153 (against the previous 1,062,066), hospitalizations with symptoms (8,776 versus 10,456) and intensive care (592 versus 708).
The number of total swabs drops further
from 2,885,324 in the week of 23 February 2022 - 1 March 2022 to 2,632,634 in the week of 2-8 March 2022 (-8.8%).
In particular, rapid buffers decreased by 8.1% (-174.500) and molecular ones by 10.7% (-78.190).
The 7-day moving average of the positivity rate for molecular buffers rises from 9.2% to 9.5%, while for rapid antigenic agents from 9.7% to 11.2%.
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It is sheer folly to think of abandoning the use of masks indoors, regardless of the expiration of the state of emergency
"This was stated by the president of the Gimbe Foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, commenting on the new independent weekly report on the trend of Covid in Italy and underlining that" the circulation of the virus is still very high: almost 40,000 new cases a day, over 1 million of positives and a positive rate of swabs of 11.4% ". It will take 7-10 days, he says," to understand if the rise of the curve of the new cases is a simple rebound or the beginning of a new wave. "The recent increase in new cases probably results from the interaction of various factors: relaxation of the population, spread of the more contagious Omicron BA.2 variant, persistence of low temperatures that force indoor activities,likely drop in vaccination protection against infection after a few months from the booster dose ", reports Cartabellotta who on the vaccination front, considering that a large slice of the population is susceptible to contagion" the administration of the primary cycle remains a priority at 4.67 millions of people and of the booster to 2.8 million, especially those over 50 at high risk of serious illness ".
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