Covid Italy today, infections on the rise: + 37.7% in a week

Covid-19 infections on the rise in Italy: currently there are over 100 thousand. “For the third consecutive week, an increase in new weekly cases is confirmed at national level (+ 37.7%), as documented by the 7-day moving average, which more than doubled in less than a month, going from 2,456 on 15 October to 5,870. on November 9th “. This was reported by Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation, presenting the independent monitoring of the Foundation which detects, in the week 3-9 November, compared to the previous one, an increase in new cases (41,091 against 29,841) and deaths (330 against 257). The currently positive cases also continue to rise (100,205 versus 84,447), people in home isolation (96,348 versus 81,070), hospitalizations with symptoms (3,436 versus 2,992) and intensive care (421 versus 385). Read also In the last three weeks, the increase in viral circulation is well documented by the increase in both the positive / people tested ratio (from 3.6% to 9.9%), and the positive / molecular swab ratio (from 2.4 % to 4.7%). In all Regions there is a percentage increase in new cases, with variations ranging from 12.7% in the Tuscany Region to 75.3% in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. But for now, no region risks the yellow zone. Sixty-six Provinces have an incidence equal to or greater than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants: in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio and Veneto all the Provinces exceed this threshold. In 3 Provinces there are over 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants: Trieste (479), Bolzano (260) and Gorizia (221). “Numbers – comments Cartabellotta – which should lead local administrators to consider restrictions on a municipal or provincial basis, to avoid that the spread of the infection drags the entire Region into the yellow zone “.