Milan, 15 November 2020 – Second Sunday from the red zone in Lombardy which from Friday, after the“technical” orange assigned from monitoring of the control room of the Ministry of Health-Iss, is once again hoping for a relaxation of anti-Covid measures. For days the Rt index it fell to around 1.5 at the regional level and to 1.2-1.3 in Milan, and even today there is a decline in the new positives: 8.060 (yesterday 8,129), albeit with a slight increase in tampons: 38,701 those processed in the last 24 hours, against 35,550 yesterday. And it drops by 22.8% the buffer / positive ratio is 20.8%. While the data relating to the deaths, which today record the highest figure since the beginning of the second wave: 181 died in 24 hours, yesterday it was 158. Numbers which bring the total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic in the region to 19,367. But the most worrying figure remains the pressure on hospitals. Even today there is a new increase in patients admitted to intensive care: +20 against 16 yesterday (total 837 seats occupied), while in the other departments 160 more people were hospitalized in the last 24 hours (overall 7,781). The healed / discharged increase +1,617 in 24 hours, of which 7,972 discharged and 130,900 recovered.
Data from the Lombard provinces
It’s still Milano the province most affected in the second wave of the virus. Despite the decline in positives at the regional level, today there is an increase in the metropolitan city, where there are 3,302 new cases, of which 1,266 in Milan city (yesterday they were respectively 2,895 in the province and 1,082 in the capital). The province of also remains over a thousand infections Monza and Brianza which records 1,140 positives in one day, follows Varese with 684 and Brescia with 644. More contained increases in the other provinces: a Pavia the new positives are 465, a How 425, a Bergamo +354, a Lecco +329, a Mantua +214, a Lodi +149, Sondrio +92 ea Cremona +82.
The data of November 15 in Italy
Contagions in decline throughout Italy. The new positives are 33,979, but with 195,275 swabs, more than 32 thousand less than yesterday. Deaths are stable at 546 (yesterday 544). Leading the ranking of the regions most affected by the virus is always the Lombardy with 8,060 new cases, follows the Piedmont with 4,021 positives and Lazio with 3.159.
Ieo: Covid in Italy as early as September 2019
If the official entry of the Coronavirus into our country is dated February 2020 and attributable to Mattia, patient 1 from Codogno, today it turns out that the Covid 19 was circulating in Italy as early as September 2019. The confirmation comes from a study ofCancer Institute of Milan and the University of Siena, which has the scientific director as its first signatory Giovanni Apolone, published in the Tumori Journal. Analyzing the samples of 959 people, all of them asymptomatic, who had participated in the screening for the lung cancer between September 2019 and March 2020, 11.6% (111 out of 959) had coronavirus antibodies, of which 14% already in September, 30% in the second week of February 2020, and the largest number (53.2%) in Lombardy.
Fontana: the hospital at the Fiera is our strength
If in the first wave thehospital in Fiera it had hosted few patients and ended up at the center of fierce controversy, in the second wave it is proving to be a fundamental hub, so much so that the number of places available is constantly increasing. And already at the endand next week, more may be active 20 to assist particularly serious Covid-19 patients. “The hospital in Fiera di Milano, that I never wanted to build and use, that considered by some useless today is our strong point. Thanks to the health and nursing staff of all the Lombard hospitals who, moved by a spirit of solidarity, like Dr. Malara (the Codogno anesthetist who discovered patient 1, ed), they have come to carry out their mission even away from their teams, demonstrating how the Lombard health system is one great team! “, wrote the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana on his Facebook profile.
Swab or serological test? When to do it
Unavailable in the first wave, in the second they became the keystone to circumscribe the virus and study its evolution. Swab (or molecular test) and serological tests are indispensable tools for tracing and to better analyze the daily data on the infection, which inevitably are also linked to the number of swabs performed. But what are the differences between the two exams? The buffer is used to diagnose presence of the virus in the body and then to find out if there is an infection in progress. THE serological tests are used instead for the search for direct antibodies against the virus, to understand then if a person is has already come into contact with Covid 19. Here is a vademecum on swab and serological test.
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