ROMA. Sicily from Monday 30 August in yellow zone and masks also in the street. The Minister of Health signed the order Roberto Speranza, who commented: “It is confirmation that the virus is not yet defeated and that the priority is to continue investing in the vaccination campaign and in the prudent and correct behavior of each of us “.
To weigh on the transition from the white area to the yellow area, the overcoming of the indicators that regulate entry into the areas at risk: the region records, in fact, according to the data of the ISS-Ministry of Health monitoring, a intensive care occupancy rate at 12.1% (against the 10% threshold), occupancy of beds in the non-critical medical area of 19.4% (against the 15% threshold) and 7-day incidence (20-26 August) highest in Italy with 200.7 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants against the threshold of 50.
At the national level “the incidence of cases is still growing, albeit slightly, reaching a 77 per 100 thousand inhabitants, while the RT tends to decrease to 1.01, just above unity. Unfortunately, the occupancy of places in the medical area increases to 7.1 and intensive care to 5.4% “, explained the Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health. Gianni Rezza.
From the sequencing activity it also emerges that the circulation of the Delta variant is now largely prevalent in Italy, as it dominates in the EU.
Meanwhile, the contagion curve in the last 24 hours remains stable as well as that of deaths: 7,826 Covid test positives, yesterday they were 7,221. The victims in one day are 45 compared to 43 the day before. The tests carried out were 265,480 between molecular and antigenic against 220,872. The positivity rate is down, 2.95%, from 3.27% yesterday.
The people who have died from Covid since the beginning of the pandemic are 129.002. There are 511 patients admitted to intensive care, eight more than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses. The daily admissions are 42 while the hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 4,114, 55 more than yesterday.
What is still worrying is the speed of diffusion of the Delta variant, the scientists explain. “It is more aggressive and will also infect many vaccinated. We will have an increasing number of people to follow at home and wards full of unvaccinated, serious, and we will once again have to convert entire wards and postpone treatment to other patients who have been waiting for two years, “said the microbiologist and former director. of the Ema Guido Rasi.
After all, the numbers speak for themselves: in Sardinia 11.2% of intensive care units and 14% of the medical area are occupied, with 148.5 incidence. In Calabria 15.2% in the wards and 5.9% intensive with an incidence of 101.5. The Regions and Autonomous Provinces that are classified a moderate risk in the weekly monitoring Iss-ministry of Health are Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Liguria, Piedmont, Trento, Puglia, and Valle d’Aosta.
The remaining 11 Regions (among which therefore South Tyrol) I am at low risk.
Meanwhile, the dichotomy is confirmed, explained several times in recent days by experts, between the number of infections and the number of hospitalizations. As in the case of Sardinia where the new infected are decreasing but the hospitalized continue to rise: today there are in fact 343 further confirmed cases of positivity on 2946 people tested. Patients in intensive care wards fell to 24 (one less than yesterday), while those in the medical area increased by five to 233 now, with a positive balance. High attention on the island, where the mayor of Villasimius has imposed the mask also outdoors, and even on the beach, when spacing is not possible.