After four days of progressive decline, a sudden surge in the number of people who died in Italy due to complications from coronavirus infection: today there are +474 over yesterday, bringing the total to 28.710. Lower numbers had been recorded in recent days: 362 additional deaths on April 28, 323 for the 29th, then 285 for Thursday, April 30, while yesterday, May 1, the figure was +269, or the second lowest increase in the number of victims since early March. Today this surge.
However, the number of people in intensive care and those hospitalized with symptoms continues to drop, further easing the pressure on hospitals. Of the 100.710 infected with coronavirus, 17.357 are hospitalized with symptoms, 212 fewer than yesterday, 81.808 are in home isolation and 1.539 in intensive care, 39 fewer than yesterday. This is what the Civil Protection bulletin on the spread of coronavirus in Italy reports. This is the twenty-seventh consecutive day in which the number of people in intensive care has dropped. The decline in the number of people hospitalized in Italian hospitals because they are infected with coronavirus and who present mild or less serious symptoms has slowed. And the decrease recorded in the number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units is also slowing: today there are 1.539 compared to 1.578 yesterday, with a decrease of 39 (compared to -116 in the previous 24 hours).
In Italy, the total number of infected people, i.e. those currently positive for coronavirus, victims and recovered, is 209.328, with an increase of 1.900 compared to yesterday. The data was released by the Civil Protection. – again according to the data released by the Civil Protection, 17.357 people are hospitalized with symptoms, with a decrease of 212 patients compared to yesterday. Instead, there are 81.808 people, equal to 81% of those currently positive, in isolation without symptoms or with mild symptoms.
In detail - according to data released by the Civil Protection -, the currently positive cases are 36.667 in Lombardy, 15.719 in Piedmont, 9.323 in Emilia-Romagna, 7.431 in Veneto, 5.365 in Tuscany, 3.598 in Liguria, 4.452 in Lazio, 3.205 in Marche, 2.721 in Campania, 1.282 in the autonomous province of Trento, 2.954 in Puglia, 2.186 in Sicily, 1.109 in Friuli Venezia Giulia, 1.879 in Abruzzo, 703 in the autonomous province of Bolzano, 196 in Umbria, 730 in Sardinia, 98 in Valle d'Aosta, 713 in Calabria, 191 in Basilicata and 182 in Molise. The increase in total coronavirus cases in Italy (the data that includes positives, victims and recovered) in the last 24 hours is concentrated - according to Civil Protection data - in Lombardy (+533), Piedmont (+495) and Emilia-Romagna (+206). There are regions where cases are increasing very little such as Umbria (+1), Molise (+1) and Sardinia (+2). No cases were recorded in Calabria. In Lazio, the total new cases in 24 hours are 84.
Article published on May 2, 2020 - 18:23 pm
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