Milan, 12 January 2021 – The coronavirus infection in Lombardy, red zone at risk from January 16, by virtue of a indice Rt rose to 1,24. The latest rumors about the new DCPM (or decree) they speak of a further tightening of nightlife (stop takeaways for bars after 6pm) and the extension of the ban on travel between regions throughout Italy. At the moment, the hypothesis of always orange weekends is excluded, while the exception to visit friends or relatives once a day (within the Municipality) could be confirmed in red zone. Possible introduction of a white area (where theindice Rt remains below 0.50) while stricter criteria should facilitate entry into orange zone and in the higher risk range Yesterday in Lombardy the infections in the region were 1,488 but, like every Monday, in the face of a reduced number of pads: as soon as 13.356.
Coronavirus Lombardy
Today, however, i new cases in the region are 1.146 compared to 15,964 swabs, for a new positives / swabs ratio of the 7,1%. I am instead 54 the victims in the last 24 hours (25,903 since the beginning of the pandemic). The healed are 1,184 and 3,586 discharged. Four more people hospitalized in intensive care compared to yesterday (but with 38 new entrants), +119 hospitalized in other Covid wards. On the front vaccines, were 14.717 the anticovid vaccinations performed yesterday in health facilities. The Region emphasizes that, since the beginning of the campaign, they are 86.260 the doses administered.
As for the cases in the various province the new cases are divided as follows: Milan 355 of which 135 in the capital; Bergamo 26; Brescia 135; Como 54; Cremona 7; Lecco 37; Praise 39; Mantua 154; Monza and Brianza 48; Pavia 95; Sondrio 52; Varese 144.
Covid: the contagion in Italy / Pdf
I am instead 14.242 the new positives in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health: 1,710 more than yesterday. The victims I’m 616, which is 168 more than yesterday. The rate of positivity, therefore, is equal to 10% (yesterday 13.6%). In total, 2,303,263 people have been infected since the beginning of the emergency and 79,819 died. Other 16,035 i discharged / healed, while the current positives are decreasing: they are 3,953 less, 575,979 in total. There are six fewer patients in intensive care for Covid-19 compared to yesterday, while hospitalized with symptoms in ordinary departments they rose by 109 units, bringing the total to 23,712. In home isolation there are 543,692 people, 6,042 fewer than yesterday.
Galli against the zone system
The zone system, in the meantime, comes criticized by Massimo Galli, infectious disease specialist of the Sacco of Milan. “I data indicate that we are not saying all over again – he said speaking tod ‘Agorà’ su Rai 3 – but in one uneventful situation, with the possibility of meeting again next week with the hospitals in great difficulty. There is no certainty, but as it is configured, the situation gives us high chances of being in bad shape in the short term “.
Another victim among health workers
The category of health workers another dead mourns in the fight against the coronavirus. It is about Giovanni Baldi, was 56 years old and worked at the Maggiore Hospital in Crema.E state infected with the coronavirus, a fight that began ten months ago, with a long period of hospitalization in intensive care due to the worsening of his condition. Then he was transferred to a rehabilitation facility in the province of Brescia. On Saturday his conditions worsened again, so much so that he was again required to be transferred to intensive care in Crema, to his hospital where he died on Sunday.
The pandemic changes scientific research
I university researchers, like other workers with high human capital, have changed their ways of working due to the pandemic COVID-19. The implications of this phenomenon are manifold in particular in terms of organization of space for their work. He explains it an interdisciplinary research group of the Politecnico di Milano that collected the experiences of 8,049 university academics (49% women, 51% men, average age 51) throughout Italy between 24 July and 24 September 2020.
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