While the new infections of coronavirus tripled in Italy in just four days, the Government recognized today a “tendency to increase for three weeks”, although it assured that it is “mostly asymptomatic” and asked that the measures of security to avoid “a further increase” of those infected.
The Health Ministry reported today a new increase in cases in the last 24 hours, reaching 947 across the country, compared to 840 reported on Thursday. Thus, the number of new positives tripled from the 320 infections reported on August 17.
The northern regions of Lombardy, with 174, and Veneto, with 116, were those that registered the most cases along with Lazio, where the capital Rome is located, which added 137 positives.
Only two of the 21 autonomous regions and provinces, the northern Valle d’Aosta in the North and the southern Basilicata, did not report new infections.
Anyway, with an average age of the new positives of 35 years in the last month, according to official figures, the number of daily victims has remained below ten deaths for days, with nine deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
“The number of new cases of infections remains broadly contained but with an increasing trend for three weeks,” stated the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) in the weekly monitoring document on the evolution of the situation epidemiological.
In the event that the security measures in force until September 7, such as the use of masks and social distancing, are not complied with, “in the coming weeks we could witness a further increase in the number of cases nationwide”, warned monitoring.
In this framework, now that the average age of infections has dropped to half of the almost 65 years of the average of the total infected since the beginning of the pandemic, the health entities raised the profile of the new positives.
“A change is seen in the dynamics of transmission, with an increase in cases and foci associated with recreational activities both in the national territory and abroad, and a lower clinical severity of the diagnosed cases, mostly asymptomatic,” they stated. So far, 35,427 people have died in Italy from the coronavirus.
Yesterday, the Scientific Technical Committee that advises the Italian Government in the fight against the pandemic stated that it had “under control” the increase in infections for three weeks. “We are in a widely anticipated trend. The curve is in slow growth but, for the moment, the epidemic is under control,” said the coordinator of the CTC, Agostino Miozzo, in an interview with the Corriere newspaper.
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