Coronavirus, 34 new cases and one death in Lombardy. Two provinces with zero infection

Milan, 21 July 2020 – In Italy today, Tuesday 21 July, I am 129 the new infections and 15 the dead in relation to the Covid-19 emergency. On the new national positives, 34 are cases ascertained in Lombardy, the region most affected by the pandemic, with 95,582 infections since the beginning of the emergency. The data relating to deaths: one dead in the last 24 hours, 16,797 in total. Yesterday there were 8 victims, Sunday zero. Today there are 5,973 swabs (overall 1,212,468). Of the new 34 positives 13 derive from serological tests and 15 are ‘weakly positive’. Stable the number of admitted to intensive care and other wardsrespectively 21 and 151, as yesterday. The number of healed / discharged grows: 71,775 (+164), 69,807 healed and 1,968 discharged. Two provinces with zero infections, cases in Milan and Bergamo are decreasing. After Lombardy, the highest number of new positives are registered Veneto (22), Emilia Romagna (18) and Liguria (12).

The new cases by province

The province that today records the greatest increase in new cases is Milano, with 9 cases, including 3 in Milan city. Follows the province of Brescia (+7) and that of Bergamo (+6, down sharply from yesterday when there were 22 new cases). TO Sondrio increase of 3 units, + 2 a Cremona, Monza and Brianza and Pavia. One new case only a Lodi, Mantua and Varese. Zero contagion a Como and Lecco.

Five months from “patient 1”

5 months have passed since the day on 21 February in Codogno (Lodi), patient 1. Mattia, 38, a runner and expecting his first child, was hospitalized in serious conditions and underwent swab, after the intuition of the hospital anesthesiologist. With the first ascertained case of Covid a very difficult phase has opened for Italy and in particular for Lombardy. March and April were marked by the lockdown and from a situation of great difficulty for hospitals, which have found themselves managing a large number of patients with severe respiratory problems. Suffice it to say that at the peak of the health emergency there were about 1,400 Covid patients hospitalized in intensive care. Weeks of sacrifice and suffering for health workers, the sick and their families, in front of an invisible and little known enemy.