Florence, 20 December 2020 – As the governor of Tuscany had anticipated this morning Eugenio Giani the new cases of coronavirus today, Sunday 20 December sit 483 more than yesterday. The average age of the new positives is around 48). They register 24 deaths. HERE THE COMPLETE BULLETIN
Healed grow by 0.7% and reach 99,538 (86% of total cases). THE swabs performed reached 1,790,932, 10,922 more than yesterday, of which 4.4% positive. On the other hand, 3,935 subjects were tested today (excluding the control swabs), of which 12.3% were positive. To these are added the 2,013 rapid antigenic swabs performed today. The current positive today is 12,806, -1.7% compared to yesterday. The hospitalized are 1,150 (37 less than yesterday), of which 187 in ICU (2 less).
Today there are 24 new deaths: 12 men and 12 women with an average age of 80.3 years.
Regarding the province of residence, the deceased people are: 6 in Florence, 4 in Prato, 1 in Pistoia, 5 in Massa Carrara, 1 in Lucca, 2 in Pisa, 3 in Livorno, 1 in Siena, 1 in Grosseto.
on 10,922 molecular swabs and 2,013 rapid tests performed “. “A little princess at Meyer wanted to dedicate a thought to the hospital staff, a beautiful image – added Giani, publishing the photo of a little girl from behind while writing something on a wall of the pediatric hospital in Florence – ‘You too can say grazie ‘is a notice board that we have posted in every hospital in Tuscany to thank those who have been fighting on the front line for months: thanks to all the women and men of our irreplaceable health system! Tuscany is cured “, concludes Giani.
Meanwhile the Tuscany, even if only for four days, from today it is on yellow zone, the one with fewer restrictions in the fight against the Covid 19 pandemic. From Thursday 24 to 7 January, the red zone will be activated on holidays and before holidays and the orange zone on weekdays.
Italy red zone on holidays and pre-holidays, armored Christmas / Christmas decree, the text in pdf / The complete bulletin of December 19: admissions stable / Covid Toscana, the percentage of positives on the total number of swabs
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Covid. The Palio di Fucecchio 2021 will not take place in May
The decision was made in the organizing assembly. SI works to identify alternative dates. HERE THE ARTICLE
Governor Giani anticipates the data of December 20
The governor of Tuscany Eugenio Giani anticipates the new cases of coronavirus today, Sunday 20 December: “I am 483 on 10,922 molecular swabs and 2,013 rapid tests performed “.” A little princess at Meyer wanted to dedicate a thought to the hospital staff, a beautiful image – added Giani, publishing the photo of a little girl from behind intent on writing something on a wall of the ‘pediatric hospital in Florence -‘ You too can say thank you ‘is a notice board that we have posted in every hospital in Tuscany to thank those who have been fighting on the front line for months: thanks to all the women and men of our irreplaceable health system! Tuscany takes care of itself “, concludes Giani.
Covid Siena, the virus enters the rsa Campansi. Ten infected
These are 9 elderly guests and a health worker, both positive and asymptomatic. HERE THE ARTICLE
Covid Empolese Valdelsa, the virus kills 46 year old. He is the youngest victim
It happened in Montelupo Fiorentino. HERE THE ARTICLE
Outbreak in an RSA in the Sienese area: 11 positives
Outbreak to Rsa ‘Pietro di Domenico‘of Siena. After a first case of Covid-19 positivity found in recent days in a guest of the facility, an extraordinary monitoring was carried out which highlighted other positive swabs: a health worker and 9 guests infected. HERE THE ARTICLE
Giani and the data of December 19: anticipation on the data
“The new positive cases recorded in the last 24 hours in Tuscany I’m 540 out of 11,028 molecular swabs and 4,736 rapid tests performed “. He announces it on Facebook the president of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, anticipating the data of the regional bulletin on the progress of the coronavirus epidemic. In the post Giani publishes a photograph of Castiglion Fiorentino (Arezzo) taken from above, and writes: “In Castiglion Fiorentino, ‘L’Abbraccio’ by the artist Giuliano Macca stands out from above. A work that best expresses the hope we have in the heart: come back to hug us freely. To do this as soon as possible, however, we must continue to fight against Covid by keeping distance and a mask “.
“Is there a large supply of syringes for covid vaccines?”
“In a short time, the first doses of the anti-Covid vaccine will also arrive in our region and we obviously cannot but rejoice. We hope, however, that an adequate number of syringes will also be available for to inject the drug; in fact, it would be really sensational and unacceptable that it would not be possible to vaccinate all those people who are primarily entitled to it “. He states it Elisa Montemagni, Group leader in the Tuscany Regional Council of the Lega.
Another boom in requests for covid vaccines
There are 128,547 reservations for the anti Covid vaccine, registered on the regional portal, by health professionals, employees and guests of the RSA: the Tuscany Region announces this after the closure of the terms for reservations initially set for 12 today and then postponed at 17 due to the high number of members. The data, it is explained, was communicated to the commissioner Domenico Arcuri, which in recent days had asked all Italian regions for an initial survey of the vaccine needs. The Region has also identified the 12 provincial hospitals to be used for the start of the vaccination campaign: Aou Careggi, new hospital of San Giovanni di Dio in Florence; San Iacopo hospital in Pistoia; Santo Stefano hospital in Prato; San Giuseppe hospital in Empoli; Aou Pisana; Livorno hospital; San Luca hospital unit in Lucca; Apuan hospital in Massa; Aou Senese; San Donato hospital in Arezzo and the Misericordia hospital in Grosseto.
Nottola hospital covid intensive area closes
The Nottola hospital (Montepulciano, Siena) has closed the intended intensive care unit to Covid patients, which had been opened on November 1st with the availability of six support beds of the San Donato hospital in Arezzo. This is what was announced in a note from Usl Tuscany South East Company. After just over a month and a half, the needs that had determined its constitution disappeared, put into practice thanks to a considerable organizational effort with the move to another area of the hospital of cardiological activity, goes on the Healthcare Company. The complete restoration of the situation prior to the opening of the Covid department will be guaranteed as quickly as possible, respecting the technical times necessary for sanitizing the environments and rearranging all the activities involved in the operation.
Pescia hospital covid area closes
Giani also recalls that «today the area dedicated to Covid patients at the Cosma and Damiano hospital in Pescia (Pistoia) closes. The 25 beds will be made available to Internal Medicine. Another hospital returns to its original functions, we continue to maintain responsible behavior to limit the risk of spreading the virus ».
in the meantime Sunday December 20 the Toscana will finally be in yellow zone (the one with the fewest restrictions to contain the Covid 19 pandemic), even if only for a few days given that the red zone looms nationwide in the days around Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Tuscany yellow zone, it is official: the RT collapsed to 0.68, the Cts data
“By the summer, Tuscans vaccinated”
The regional councilor for health, Bezzini, speaks HERE THE ARTICLE
Iacopo Melio: “I’m positive about Covid”
The announcement on Facebook by the regional councilor: ““If I am ill, who has not been out for a year, and who live in a family that is extremely attentive and isolated from others, it can really happen to anyone”. HERE THE ARTICLE
The announcement for the hug room
It is open until December 28th announcement of the Health Society which will allow the 36 Florentine RSAs to equip themselves with the ‘hug room, a way to allow safe (and therefore anti Covid) meetings between the elderly and family members. “The biggest enemy after the virus is loneliness – the mayor wrote on Twitter Dario Nardella -. For this reason, with the Health Society we have created a tender for the creation of ‘rooms of hugs in all the Rsa of Florence. Safe places where love and affection overcome the feeling of abandonment. Do you like the idea? ». The room is an inflatable tent, equipped with two entrances, one for family members and the other for the elderly, with a plastic wall in the center so that there are all the necessary health safety devices.
A Tuscan device will tell if you have the flu or Covid
Covid-19 or flu? A new molecular test provides an immediate diagnosis. This is what it ensures Menarini Diagnostics which introduced the new test: according to what the Florentine pharmaceutical group explains, in 20 minutes the test can identify, with a single diagnostic test and a single pad, if the patient who presents symptoms such as fever, cough or cold, is positive for Covid-19 or if he has contracted the flu type A or B. The test, the company explains, is carried out on the VitaPcr platform, the portable tool (Point of Care) used mainly for the molecular diagnosis of Covid-19, distributed since last April by Menarini Diagnostics and already in use in hundreds of European facilities with over 1,400 units.
Communicate the modalities of the arrival of the covid vaccine in Tuscany
«The extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri he communicated the arrival and the modalities of the first 116,240 doses quota of anticovid vaccine “. The president of Tuscany announces it, Eugenio Giani, in a post on Facebook. The governor then added that “more than 67 thousand booking requests have already arrived on the regional portal among health workers and RSA guests” for the Covid vaccine. «We continue determined in the fight against the pandemic – concludes Giani – to make the #ToscanasiCura».
The covid department of Pescia closes
The Covid19 setting closes at the Pescia hospital (Pistoia). The 25 beds opened last November 12, obtained within the setting of Internal Medicine, return to their original function and will be operational again. In recent weeks, the Pescia hospital has also been dedicated to the hospitalization of Covid-19 cases, in particular to help strengthen the hospital network of the Centro Usl Toscana center in the second phase of the emergency.
You are positive in a Rsa of Monte San Quirico
Four guests and two operators in the structure in the province of Lucca infected. HERE THE ARTICLE
“Multi-resistant germs, submerged pandemic”
Professor Menichetti has been dealing with sepsis caused by multidrug-resistant germs for years: “They are the cause of many deaths of Covid patients. And not only”. HERE THE ARTICLE
