Covid today Italy, Iss: Rt stable, incidence rises again

The Covid-19 situation in Italy sees the transmissibility index Rt stable in the latest monitoring, while the incidence still rises. In the period 30 November-13 December, we read in the report of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss), the average Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was equal to 1.13 (range 1.11-1.15), in line with the previous week. However, RT remains “above the epidemic threshold”. Read also The weekly incidence on a national level continues to increase: it is “351 per 100,000 inhabitants”, calculated for the period 17-23 December, against 241 per 100,000 inhabitants in the week of 10-16 December (data from the Ministry of Health).