Covid, Gimbe report: cases and deaths decreasing. Sharp reduction in swabs. The comment of Nino Cartabellotta
All numbers are decreasing Covid-19 in Italy. The independent monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation detects in the week of May 4-10, compared to the previous one, a decrease in new cases of 27,5% (286.350 compared to 394.945) and in deaths, down 12,5% (842 against 962).
Also decreasing are currently positive cases (1.082.972 compared to 1.199.960), people in home isolation (1.074.035 compared to 1.189.899), hospitalizations with symptoms (8.579 compared to 9.695, -11,5%) and intensive care (358 compared to 366, -2,2%).
“The number of new weekly cases continues to decline – comments Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation – which stand at 286 thousand with a 7-day moving average that is close to 41 thousand daily cases, despite a 23,6% drop in total swabs”.
In the week 4-10 May, a percentage reduction in new cases was noted in all Regions: from -18,6% in Emilia-Romagna and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano to -32,9% in Puglia.
Compared to the previous week, a percentage reduction in new cases was recorded in all provinces (from -4,8% in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola to -41,1% in Mantua).
The incidence exceeds 500 cases per 100.000 inhabitants in 48 provinces: Chieti (897), Ascoli Piceno (818), Pescara (783), Teramo (768), Avellino (726), Catanzaro (700), Benevento (698), Crotone (674), Isernia (669), Salerno (669), South Sardinia (660), Campobasso (656), Fermo (626), Vicenza (625), Padua (623), Cagliari (620), Oristano (619), Caserta (610), Perugia (610), Macerata (607), L'Aquila (605), Potenza (603), Bari (599), Taranto (597), La Spezia (596), Treviso (575), Ravenna (572), Rovigo (569), Terni (562), Matera (561), Syracuse (553), Ancona (550), Venice (548), Modena (548), Brindisi (544), Frosinone (539), Reggio Emilia (538), Latina (538), Rieti (533), Cosenza (527), Verona (525), Ragusa (523), Siena (520), Bologna (520), Parma (515), Messina (511), Caltanissetta (507) and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (502).
Article published on May 12, 2022 - 11:00 pm
