There are 31,760 new cases of Covid-19 registered in the last 24 hours, against 35,043 yesterday, according to the daily update of the
Ministry of Health
.
The victims are 94 against 93 yesterday.
The positivity rate is 15.43 (yesterday it was 16.16).
The molecular and antigenic swabs performed were 205,738 against 216,735 the previous day.
Contagions continue to decline (-14.4%), intensive care is returning (-8.7%), hospitalizations are stable (+ 1.6%) and deaths are increasing (+ 2.8%)
.
These data summarize the trend of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy in the week of October 19-25, according to the
monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation
.
Compared to the previous 7 days, and for the second consecutive week - declares Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Foundation - there is a decrease in new weekly cases: from over 275 thousand last week they have dropped to 236 thousand, with a 7-day moving average of almost 34 thousand cases a day ".
With the exception of Sicily (+ 3.3%), the decline in new cases affects all Regions
(from -3.8% in Lazio to -34.5% in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano).
On the hospital front, says Marco Mosti, Operations Director of the Gimbe Foundation, "intensive care is returning after three consecutive weeks of increase, while hospitalizations in the medical area stabilize. In absolute terms, the number of Covid beds occupied in the critical area , after reaching the maximum of 254 on October 17, they fell to 232 on October 25; in the medical area, after reaching the minimum of 3.293 on September 24, they reached 7.106 on October 25 ".
On the other hand, the number of deaths increased slightly: 559 in the last 7 days
(of which 14 referred to previous periods), with an average of 80 per day compared to 78 in the previous week.
On the other hand, 6.8 million Italians are not vaccinated against Covid
: of these 830 thousand recovered are protected only temporarily.
In addition, 7.46 million people have not yet received the third dose, of which 2.36 million recovered who cannot receive it immediately.
For the fourth dose, the national coverage rate is 21.4% with clear regional differences: from 10% in Sicily to 33% in Piedmont.
This is what emerges on the vaccine front from the independent weekly monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation for the period 19-25 October which also shows that the new vaccinated people are decreasing: 1,411 compared to 1,576 the previous week (-10.5%).
As for the fourth dose, the audience for the second recall is 19.1 million people: of these, 13.2 million can receive it immediately, 1.8 million are not immediately eligible as less than 120 recovered. days and 4.1 million have already received it.
As of October 26, 4,092,138 fourth doses have been administered, with a moving average of 35,944 administrations per day, an increase compared to last week's 35,486 (+ 1.3%).
Finally, on the fifth doses, no official data is currently available.
Gimbe's monitoring, in the variants chapter, underlines that, according to forecasts, the new variant BQ1 and its sub-lineage BQ1.1 (the Cerberus) will become dominant between mid-November and early December 2022, with a likely increase in cases in the next weeks or months.
Based on the available studies, BQ.1 has a significant ability to escape the immune response, induced by both vaccination and natural infection.
At present, Gimbe's monitoring concludes, there is no evidence that this variant is associated with a greater severity of infection than Omicron BA.4 / BA.5.
(HANDLE).