Covid today Italy, who risks the yellow zone: the EU map

Lombardy “remains in the white zone”, Veneto towards the yellow zone “for Christmas”, Lazio “attentive”. Italy struggling with coronavirus and the Omicron variant is dealing with the increase in infections in the regions while remaining in relatively better conditions than the rest of Europe. In fact, only five regions in the yellow zone in the country according to the ECDC map which yesterday photographed the covid situation in the EU while the new variant dominates the scene. Therefore, the number of Italian regions in yellow, a color that indicates an average risk, decreases in the map updated every week and which serves as a reference ‘compass’ for travel restrictions. Umbria, Puglia, Molise, Sicily and Sardinia are still yellow, all the others are in red apart from Valle d’Aosta, Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, which are in dark red, the maximum risk range. Meanwhile, the rest of Europe is tinged with red or dark red, with the exception of three communities in Spain (Extremadura, Madrid and Cantabria), in yellow, and two regions in Romania. Read also VENETO TOWARDS THE YELLOWVeneto towards the yellow zone for Christmas. This is the scenario outlined by the governor Luca Zaia on 7 December last year on the basis of numbers linked to infections and hospitalizations. “This week we assume we are still in the white zone, this morning we were at 11% for employment in the non-critical area. For the other two parameters, incidence and intensive care, we have already exceeded. Next week will be white, but that of Christmas is very likely to be yellow. “” LOMBARDY REMAINS WHITE ZONE “Lombardy white zone again next week. This was announced yesterday by the President of the Region, Attilio Fontana, anticipating the outcome of the evaluation on the “weekly data that tomorrow (today, ed) the monitoring cabin of ISS and the Ministry of Health”. “The hospital Rt index continues to drop and goes from 1.19 in the previous seven days to 1.03. The occupancy percentages of beds (recorded last Tuesday by Iss) in intensive care are still below the alert thresholds (recorded last Tuesday by Iss) in intensive care, 8 for one hundred, and medical area, 12 percent “. In the Region yesterday there were 1,486 infections and 20 deaths since yesterday according to the latest bulletin of the Civil Protection and Ministry of Health. “IN LAZIO SITUATION TO BE CAREFUL” Yesterday in Lazio “on 13,386 molecular swabs and 13,815 antigenic swabs for a total of 27,201 tampons, 1,376 new positive cases were recorded (-178). The Rt value stable at 1.06 and the incidence increasing to 190 per 100 thousand inhabitants, but the speed of the increase suffered a slight decrease compared to the previous week (-2% ) “. Thus on the day the councilor for Health and Social and Health Integration of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato, at the conclusion of the videoconference of the regional task force for Covid-19 with the general directors of the ASL and hospitals, university polyclinics and the ‘Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital. “The situation needs attention, the goal of cooling the curve remains”, explained D’Amato.