Covid today Italy, Civil Protection and regional contagion bulletin 22 December

Numbers and data from Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto, Tuscany and Lazio, Campania, Puglia and Sicily The bulletin with Covid numbers in Italy today, Wednesday 22 December 2021, data and news from the Civil Protection and the Ministry of Health – region by region – on coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths. The numbers from Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto, Tuscany and Lazio, Campania, Puglia and Sicily. The bulletin of the big cities like Milan, Rome and Naples, the point on the vaccination campaign and the spread of the Omicron variant. Waiting for the control room chaired by Prime Minister Mario Draghi scheduled for tomorrow. “The arrival of the Omicron variant has opened a new phase in the pandemic. Tomorrow a control room will be held to decide what to do on the basis of the epidemiological framework,” said the prime minister at the press conference at the end of the year. VENETO There are 4,522 new coronavirus infections today 22 December 2021 in Veneto, according to data and numbers from the latest Covid-19 bulletin of the Region. There are another 20 deaths. 27,107 molecular swabs and 91,459 antigenic swabs performed. There are 10 new hospitalizations in the medical area while the number of hospitalizations in intensive care is decreasing (-12) .TUSCANY There are 2,038 coronavirus infections in Tuscany today, December 22, 2021, according to numbers and covid data from the region’s bulletin. There are five other deaths. The new positive cases (1,975 confirmed with molecular swab and 63 by rapid antigen test), bring the total to 321,653 from the beginning of the coronavirus health emergency. New cases are 0.6% more than the previous day’s total. The healed grew by 0.2% and reached 294,615 (91.6% of total cases). Today, 16,022 molecular swabs and 27,941 rapid antigenic swabs were performed, of which 4.6% were positive. On the other hand, 12,979 subjects were tested today (with antigenic and / or molecular swabs, excluding control swabs), of which 15.7% were positive. The currently positive today are 19,536, + 7.5% compared to yesterday. There are 437 hospitalized (13 more than yesterday), of which 64 in intensive care (3 more). Today there are 5 new deaths: 5 women, with an average age of 79.4 years. These are the data – ascertained at 12 today on the basis of the requests of the National Civil Protection – relating to the progress of the epidemic in the region. “Today the new positives are back above 2 thousand cases, it is time to be responsible and not let your guard down”, says the president of Tuscany Eugenio Giani, on his social profiles.