Covid today Italy, Rt and incidence in decline: hospitalizations are increasing

Covid today in Italy, Rt and incidence decreasing in the period from 16 to 29 March. This is what is revealed by the weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss) and the Ministry of Health on the epidemiological trend of Covid-19. The average Rt calculated on symptomatic cases of Covid stands at 1 (range 0.94 – 1.09), therefore a decrease compared to the previous week. “The transmissibility index based on hospitalized cases decreases slightly and falls below the epidemic threshold: Rt 0.92 (0.9-0.94) as of April 5 against Rt 1.03 (1.00- 1.05) as of March 29 “, reads the report. Incidence down from 776 cases to 717 per 100 thousand inhabitants. Admissions slightly increased to 15.6%, intensive care decreasing. A high-risk, moderate region in 8.