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Covid: 35,427 positive, 41 victims, rate at 19%

2022-06-17T14:52:03.583Z


There are 35,427 new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 36,573. The victims are 41. Intensive care is stable, ordinary hospitalizations are slightly increasing (ANSA)


There are 35,427 new infections from Covid recorded in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

Yesterday there were 36,573.

The victims are instead 41, down from 64 yesterday.

A total of 185,819 swabs were performed, including antigenic and molecular,

with the positivity rate at 19%

, stable compared to 18.7% yesterday.

191 patients are

hospitalized in intensive care

, 1 less than yesterday.

Daily admissions are 24. There are 4,320 hospitalized in ordinary wards, or 17 more than yesterday.

Also based on the ministry's data, the currently positive ones drop to 572.045, 28.736 less in the last 24 hours.

In total,

the number of Italians infected since the beginning of the pandemic rose to 17,809,934

, while the dead reached 167,658.

The discharged and recovered amounted to 17,070,231, with an increase of 64,865.

THE ISS-MINISTRY OF HEALTH WEEKLY MONITORING

The weekly incidence of Covid-19 cases at the national level rises: 310 per 100,000 inhabitants (10/06/2022 -16/06/2022) against 222 per 100,000 inhabitants last week (03/05/2022 -09/06 / 2022).

In the period 25 May - 7 June 2022, the average Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was instead equal to 0.83 (range 0.73-1.18), an increase compared to the previous week when it was equal to 0.75, with a range that exceeds the epidemic threshold.

This is evidenced by the

weekly monitoring Iss-Ministry of Health

The transmissibility index based on cases with hospitalization, detects the weekly monitoring, is increasing, with an interval that reaches the epidemic threshold of 0.95 (0.91-1) on 07/06/2022 compared to a Rt equal to 0.80 as at 31/5.

The

employment rate in intensive care of Covid patients drops

to 1.9% (daily survey by the Ministry of Health as of June 16) compared to 2.0% on June 9.

The employment rate in medical areas at the national level, on the other hand, slightly rises to 6.7% (daily survey by the Ministry of Health as of June 16) compared to 6.6%, again compared with June 9.

Two Regions this week return to exceed the 15% alert threshold

for the occupation of ordinary hospital wards by Covid patients.

They are

Sicily

, at 15.5%, and

Valle d'Aosta

at 15.3%.

The incidence of Covid cases per 100,000 inhabitants this week has also risen again, settling at 222. The highest incidences are recorded in Sardinia, where the value has jumped to 448.6 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, and Lazio where the value reaches 406. , 7.

The data emerges from the table on the decision-making indicators, which ANSA was able to view, attached to the weekly monitoring by Iss-Ministry of Health.

In Italy on 7 June the Omicron variant of the SarsCoV2 virus had an estimated prevalence of 100%, with the BA.2 sub-variant predominant.

It is also underlined the increase in cases attributable to the sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, the latter rising to 23.15% of Omicron itself.

These are the

results of the rapid survey conducted by the Higher Institute of Health and the Ministry of Health together with the regional laboratories and the Bruno Kessler Foundation

.


Source: ansa

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