Covid, Ecdc: “Italy today does not worry”

Covid today Italy, our country does not worry the ECDC. The Belpaese is in fact, for this week, the only one classified at the level of “low concern” by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control according to the latest report that analyzes the Covid-19 situation in the various states of the European Union and European Economic Area. The level of concern for the whole area remains “very high” at 8.3 out of 10 like last week. But compared to 7 days ago, Italy changes bands. And if in the next few days an increase in cases and deaths is to be expected, admissions both in the medical area and in intensive care should stabilize. The report relates to week 48, the one that ended Sunday 5 December, and the forecasts it contains concern the following 14 days, therefore weeks 49 (ending December 12) and 50 (ending December 19). in the report – the overall epidemiological situation of the EU / See was characterized by a “high and rapidly increasing” rate of notification of Covid cases, and by a “slow increasing” mortality rate. The ECDC forecast is that between now and week 50 infections and deaths will increase, while admissions to intensive care and other departments will stabilize.The overall rate of notification of Covid cases for the EU / See area was in week 48 equal to 797 per 100 thousand (748.6 / 100 thousand the previous week), up from 9 weeks. The 14-day Covid-19 death rate was 55.9 deaths per million inhabitants (53.2 / million the previous week), stable for 2 weeks. Of the 30 countries with admissions data up to week 48, 17 reported an upward trend compared to the previous week. For most states, the epidemiological situation is considered to be of “high or very high concern, particularly in the western and northern areas of the EU / See, largely determined – specifies the ECDC – by the high transmissibility of the Delta variant which has limited reduction of “viral” transmission obtained with vaccination “. In fact, Delta is still the Sars-CoV-2 mutant still prevalent in the area, at 98.6%. In detail, in week 48 the situation is classified as “extremely worrying” in 8 countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany , Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland), of “high concern” in 11 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal and Slovakia), of “moderate concern” in 10 (Austria, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden) and of “little concern” in 1 (Italy). Compared to the previous week, 3 countries (France, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg) moved up to a higher category, 9 (Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain) to a lower category, while 18 remained in the same category.