There are 30,710 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours,
according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday there were 59,555.
The victims are 95, an increase compared to 82 yesterday.
There are 1,254,056 people currently positive for Covid, with a decrease of 8,835 in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
A total of 14,396,283 Italians have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic, while the deaths rise to 158,877.
The discharged and healed are 12,983,350, an increase of 40,300 compared to yesterday.
There are 211,535 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday there were 384,323.
The positivity rate is 14.5%, down from 15.5% yesterday.
487 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 23 more than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses.
Daily admissions are 39. There are 9,496 hospitalized in ordinary wards, or 315 more than yesterday.
The occupation of seats in 'non-critical area' hospital wards by Covid patients is still at 14% in Italy
(exactly one year ago it was 43%) but in the last 24 hours it has grown in 10 regions and in 6 exceeds the 20%: Calabria (34%), Umbria (32%), Basilicata (29%), Sicily (25%), Marche (22%), Puglia (21%).
Intensive care employment, on the other hand, is now stable at 5% in Italy compared to 40% reached exactly one year ago, and is under 10% in all regions.
This is indicated by the data of the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas) of 27 March 2022.
In detail, based on daily monitoring, the occupancy of places in hospital wards in the medical (or 'non-critical') area by patients with Covid-19 grows in 10 regions or autonomous provinces: Calabria (34%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (11%), Lazio (18%), Bolzano (12%), Trento (10%), Piedmont (9%), Sicily (25%), Tuscany (16%), Umbria (32%) ), Valle d'Aosta (10%).
It is stable in the remaining 11 regions: Abruzzo (20%), Basilicata (29%), Campania (16%), Emilia Romagna (11%), Liguria (15%), Lombardy (9%), Marche (22 %), Molise (16%), Puglia (21%), Sardinia (20%) and Veneto (8%).
Also on a daily basis, the employment of intensive care by patients with Covid-19 is growing in 7 regions: Calabria (10%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (3%), Lazio (8%), Liguria (5%), Puglia (7%), Sicily (8%), Tuscany (6%),
while it decreases in Abruzzo (7%), Piedmont (3%) and Umbria (3%).
In Valle d'Aosta (0%) variation not available.
Instead, it is stable in 10 regions or autonomous provinces: Basilicata (3%), Campania (7%), Emilia Romagna (4%), Lombardy (2%), Marche (4%), Molise (0%), Pa Bolzano (4%), Pa Trento (2%), Sardinia (9%) and Veneto (2%).
"If we continue with about 100-150 deaths a day, we will reach 60,000 deaths
in a year
, placing Covid as the leading
cause of death
in Italy".
And
these deaths "are not young people who are not vaccinated, but mostly elderly people on whom the vaccine has not been effective"
.
So
we can reduce it "only by protecting the frail from contagion"
.
This was stated by Andrea Crisanti, microbiologist of the University of Padua, in Agorà, on Rai 3 that he invites to provide "a good tampon" to test who is in close contact with them.
The vaccine, he specified, "has decreased the probability that an elderly person will develop a severe form but allows a very low coverage against transmission, which after three months drops to 30%, even if it continues for the complications of the disease. In the meantime, however. , we have a virus that has a very high transmission index, equal to measles, with which
all measures of social distancing do not work "
.
This means that "we need to protect the fragile from contagion", because "the 120-150 deaths a day are not no vax but,
in 95% of cases, they are fragile and vaccinated,
this means that the goal is to decrease the chances of contagion of these people, first of all by taking the fourth dose.
But this must not be an alibi, because the immunocompromised may not react even to 7 doses ".
Therefore, concluded Crisanti, "if a fragile person works, he must have smartworking and revoking it for everyone is wrong".
If the frail is an elderly person and stays at home,
"he becomes infected when relatives and caregivers go to him"
, so to encourage these people to test themselves, "we should provide for
coupons to make a molecular swab
".
"
We are in a plateau of new daily cases of contagion that have stabilized for about seven days at around 70-71 thousand
.
Probably this is a prelude to a descent of the curve, hoping that there will not be a spread of the infection in the northern regions. "To take stock of the current phase of the Covid-19 epidemic is Nino Cartabellotta, president of the GIMBE Foundation, who spoke on Radio Cusano Campus. "The very strange thing about this substantial increase in cases - notes the expert - is given by the increase in infections mainly in the central and southern regions while the large northern regions, including Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and to a lesser extent Veneto, have remained substantially stable with cases.
Obviously, the increase in cases has led to an increase in the occupancy of hospital beds, especially in the medical area: on 12 March we had 8,234 beds occupied while yesterday there were 9.
181, or almost a thousand more.
In intensive care, on the other hand, employment by COVID patients is substantially stable: from 447 beds on March 12 to 464 yesterday ". This however shows that," even though we are faced with a more contagious and less serious variant, when cases increase dramatically there is always a rebound within hospitals.
If the circulation of the virus remains this - concludes Carabellotta - we should not have particular problems ".
when cases increase significantly, there is always a rebound within hospitals.
If the circulation of the virus remains this - concludes Carabellotta - we should not have particular problems ".
when cases increase significantly, there is always a rebound within hospitals.
If the circulation of the virus remains this - concludes Carabellotta - we should not have particular problems ".