Coronavirus, 27,354 cases with 152 thousand swabs. 504 dead, over 500 new hospitalizations. The positive-test ratio rises again

There are 27,354 new cases of coronavirus ascertained in 24 hours in our country, down from 34 thousand yesterday. As happens every Monday, however, the tampons: 152,663 were carried out, while yesterday they were 195 thousand. To read the data you must therefore look at the rate of positivity, once again slightly increasing: the ratio between positives and tests carried out goes from 17% to 17.91%. The situation does not change if we consider only the new cases tested (thus excluding the control swabs, about 60 thousand of the total): the index is equal to 30.71%. The bulletin of the Ministry of Health then speaks of others 504 deaths occurred within a day due to Covid. +489 patients hospitalized in Hospital, while another 70 ended up in intensive care.

I beds employed in the health facilities of the country therefore reach 32,536, of which 7,901 in Lombardy alone and 5,074 in Piedmont. There are 3,492 citizens for whom hospitalization in intensive care is required, one out of four it is located in Lombardy. Positive news comes from the number of healed: within a day they were discharged from hospitals or 21,554 Covid patients no longer show symptoms. A record. The currently positive people instead rise to 717,784, of which 681,756 in home isolation. The infections since the beginning of the pandemic have reached over 1 million and 200 thousand, while the total deaths are 45,733.

Looking at the individual Regions, in Lombardy 4,128 daily infections were ascertained against 18 thousand tampons. 99 the dead. They follow the Piedmont, with other 3,476 cases, and the Campania (+4.079). Emilia Romagna, Lazio e Tuscany there are around 2,500 infections, while in Sicily another 1,461 infections were recorded. +1,044 in Puglia, only 365 in Liguria (after more than 800 yesterday). Numbers rising in Abruzzo, struggling with 642 new cases, while they are in sharp decline in Market and in Umbria: both are more than 280 with half the swabs compared to yesterday. The situation remains problematic in province of Bolzano (+544), as well as in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+456). 411 the new cases in Sardinia, 297 in Calabria. Trento, Basilicata e Molise they stop below 200 infections, while the only Region with less than 100 daily infections today is the Valle d’Aosta (+99). The ratio between positives and tested cases remains very high in Alto Adige, where it is close to 64.8%, as well as in Umbria (63.17%). It is also over 50% in Lombardy (56.6%) and Veneto (55.5%).

Compared to recent weeks, the infections recorded today throughout Italy no longer increase exponentially. 7 days ago 25,271 cases were ascertained, 2 thousand fewer than the 27,354 today. Two weeks ago they were 22,253, while at the end of October they stood at 17,012. The slowing of the curve in some Regions: Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont and the province of Trento seem to have reached the plateau, while in Veneto, Alto Adige and Campania the peak of cases was practically reached.

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