Covid Italy, Calabria yellow zone from today: data and infections

With coronavirus infections and Covid hospitalizations on the rise – while the cases of the Omicron variant in Italy are still limited – the yellow zone is widening in our country where the Super green pass has been in force since 6 December: from today, Monday 13 December, in fact, even the Calabria region passes in this color band from the white zone, joining Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. The ordinance signed by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in addition to arranging the yellow zone for Calabria, extends the yellow area for a further 15 days in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Read also In the yellow zone, masks must also be used outdoors, even if an ordinance of the governor of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, had already ordered, since last Monday, the obligation for all the population over 12 to wear a mask , even outdoors, throughout the region. “Calabria in the ‘yellow zone’? We do not get discouraged. On the contrary, the change of color is an incentive to improve. Go ahead in equipping new Covid beds and new places in intensive care, and on with vaccinations. We protect the health of Calabrians. and economic activities “wrote Occhiuto on Twitter. Yesterday 453 new coronavirus infections were recorded in Calabria, according to the Covid-19 emergency bulletin released by the Health Protection Department of the Region. 5,694 swabs carried out. Three deaths, for a total of 1,527 victims. In Italy yesterday 19,215 new infections and 66 deaths were recorded. The positivity rate is 3.8%. There are 6,697 patients hospitalized with symptoms (+158), 829 those in intensive care (+11). Since the previous day, 8,151 people have been healed, bringing the total to 4,805,809 since the beginning of the pandemic in our country. ) with the main data of the control room monitoring. “In the period November 16-29, the mean Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was equal to 1.18, while it was 1.20 the previous week but above the epidemic threshold”, the report reads. “It is decreasing. , but still above the epidemic threshold, the transmissibility index based on cases with hospitalization (Rt 1.07 on November 29 versus Rt 1.09 on November 23) “, is specified. While” the weekly incidence at national level continues to increase: 176 per 100 thousand inhabitants (3-9 December) against 155 per 100 thousand inhabitants (26 November-2 December), data from the Health Ministry “. In addition, hospitalizations and the occupancy of ICU beds are increasing. “The employment rate in intensive care is 8.5% (daily survey by the Ministry of Health as of December 9) against 7.3% (survey as of November 2). The employment rate in medical areas nationwide rises to 10 , 6% (daily survey as of December 9) against 9.1% (daily survey as of December 2) “the report reads. Regarding the anti Covid vaccines, the ISS highlights that five months after the completion of the anti Covid vaccination cycle, the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing the disease, both in the symptomatic and asymptomatic form, drops from 74% to 39%. complete cycle for less than five months is equal to 93% compared to non-vaccinated, while it is equal to 84% in vaccinated with a complete cycle for more than five months, we read in the latest full report of the Higher Institute of Health. not vaccinated the risk of dying is 16.6 times greater than a vaccine with a booster dose, is 11.1 times greater than a vaccine for less than 5 months and 6.9 times greater than that for a vaccine for more than 5 months.