Rome, 18 August 2020 – These are crucial days to contain the resurgence of infections from Coronavirus in Italia, many connected to holidays and returning from abroad. Therefore waiting for the Covid bulletin of today, which will serve to make a further point on the trend. Data will be released on total cases, currently positive, dead and cured. Particular attention is paid to the number of hospitalizations and intensive care, again on the rise. Meanwhile, isolations and buffers multiply from North to South. In Sardinia a positive in the resort and the quarantine is triggered for 400 vacationers. In Emilia, the AUSL of Piacenza and Parma are looking for 200 young people present in a nightclub frequented by a girl from Fidenza, who was affected by Covid. TO Cesena an old woman dies infected by the caregiver. And theWHO warns that worldwide the epidemic “is driven by infections among young people”.
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The bulletin of August 18
The data and the Pdf tables will be published shortly
Lombardy
I’m 50 new cases in Lombardy, of which 6 ‘weakly positive’ and 1 following a serological test. According to what emerges from the daily bulletin of the region, the healed / discharged increase (+71, bringing the overall total to 75,319, of which 1,303 discharged and 74,016 recovered. There are no deaths (the total number is 16,840) and not even new admissions to therapy While 3 people were hospitalized, but not in intensive care, 5,548 swabs were performed (overall total: 1,423,476).
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Veneto
I’m 37 new cases of contagion in Veneto. The total of positives since the beginning of the epidemic rises to 21,316. The death toll is stable, 2,096 (between hospitals and retirement homes). 7 patients are hospitalized in intensive care. The subjects currently positive in Veneto are 1,688.
Lazio
“Today they register 43 cases and one death – says the councilor for health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato -. Of these, more than half are import cases. Twelve cases of return from Sardinia and of these six with links to the party in Porto Rotondo. The cases of imports or involving young people returning from holidays come from: eight cases of returning from Greece (one case from Crete and three from Corfu), seven cases from Croatia, five cases from Spain, one case from France and one case of return from Malta. Between yesterday and today – continues D’Amato – we have carried out over 5 thousand tests on travelers returning from countries at risk. The airport control system is working and this allows us to intercept asymptomatic cases early on that would otherwise have traveled to Italy “.
Emilia Romagna
Another 21 infections in Emilia Romagna in the last 24 hours, with 1,789 currently active. Of the newly infected, 13 are asymptomatic and identified through screening. One death is recorded.
Tuscany
In Tuscany the cases of positivity are 31 more than yesterday: 15 identified in the course of tracing and 16 from screening activities. New cases are 0.3% more than the previous day’s total. The healed remained stable at 9,028 (82.9% of total cases). The average age of the 31 cases today is 42 years and, as regards the clinical states, 32% were asymptomatic, 47% pauci-symptomatic and 16% with mild symptoms. There are five cases returned from abroad, of which three for vacation reasons (plus three contacts). The currently positive are 718 today, + 4.5% compared to yesterday. Today there are no new deaths.
Market
They keep climbing in Market confirmed cases of Covid: 15 in the last 24 hours (yesterday there were 8) out of a total of 810 swabs processed in the path for new diagnoses; 317 tests were also carried out on the same day. The new positives were identified 5 in the province of Ascoli Piceno, 4 in the province of Pesaro-Urbino and the same number in that of Ancona, while 2 are not resident in the Marche.
Puglia
Hospitalization needed for three of the 20 people infected with Covid in Puglia in the last hours: these are people residing in the province of Bari who have been admitted to the polyclinic Among the new cases, a 6-year-old child from the Bat (province of Barletta-Andria-Trani), asymptomatic, already in isolation was also reported because a relative of a person who has tested positive in recent days. The cases are divided as follows: 4 in the province of Bari; 4 in the Bat; 2 in the province of Foggia; 9 the Lecce; 1 from outside the region. No deaths were recorded.
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