Covid: in 24 hours 79,895 positive, 128 victims. Positive rate rises to 15.1%

   There are 79,895 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

Yesterday there were 72,568.

Instead, the victims are 128 (yesterday there were 137). 

There are 1,088,217 people currently positive at Covid, with an increase of 34,050 in the last 24 hours.

A total of 13,645,834 Italians have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic, while the deaths rise to 157,442.

The discharged and healed are 12,400,175, with an increase of 48,190 compared to yesterday.  

 There are 529,882 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours.

Yesterday there were 490,711.

The positivity rate is 15.1%, up from 14.8% yesterday.

Instead, 473 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, four less than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits.

The daily admissions are 51. The hospitalized in the ordinary wards are 8,397, or 13 less than yesterday.

THE GIMBE MONITORING

The contagion curve points upwards, registering + 36% of cases in 7 days, and slows the decline in hospitalizations in the medical area (-3.5%) while that of intensive care remains stable (-16.4% ) and deaths (-18.7%).

This is revealed by the weekly monitoring of the

Foundation  which also highlights how there are 17 provinces with an incidence of over 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

In the week 9-15 March, Gimbe therefore recorded an increase in new cases (+379.792) against a slight increase in tampons (+ 8.4%).

And the provinces with an incidence exceeding 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants rise to 66.

Hospitalizations in intensive care (-90), in the medical area (-303) and deaths (976 vs 1.201) are decreasing.

"After five weeks of decline and the arrest of the descent last week - declares Nino Cartabellotta, president of Gimb - the curve of new weekly cases is clearly reversed, which amount to around 379 thousand, with an increase of 35.9% and a 7-day moving average that rises from about 40 thousand cases on March 8 to over 54 thousand on March 15 (+30.3). A trend reversal that recognizes various causes: from the relaxation of the population to the spread of the most contagious Omicron BA.2 variant, from the decline in vaccine protection against infection to the persistence of low temperatures that force indoor activities ".

The vaccination campaign is "stalled, despite the fact that there are almost 4.6 million Italians who can be vaccinated with the first dose and 2.9 with boosters"

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The Gimbe monitoring for the week 9-15 March 2022 detects this.

The number of administrations is still decreasing in the last week (441,837), with a 7-day moving average of 63,120 administrations / day: third doses (320,925) and 22.3 are reduced by 6.6% % new vaccinated (23,783).

Therefore, says Gimbe, the percentages of the population vaccinated with at least one dose (85.6%) and with a complete cycle (83.8%) are not increasing.

The coverage rate of third doses is 83.5%, with clear regional differences, while the fourth doses administered to the immunocompromised are 35,390.

As of March 16, there are still 6.98 million people who have not received even a dose of the vaccine, of which 2.39 million are temporarily protected as they have recovered from Covid-19 for less than 180 days.

As for the children,