Covid Italia, Rezza and Brusaferro: “Net deterioration”

In Italy “there is a rapid surge in the number of new infections” from coronavirus and “this week the epidemiological situation in our country worsens significantly, with the incidence of Covid 19 cases now reaching 1,700 per 100 thousand inhabitants”. This is explained by Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss), and Giovanni Rezza, the director general of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, in a video message commenting on the data of the Covid-19 monitoring, released today. SIGNALS OF DECREASE ONLY IN SOUTH TYROL “There is a very strong circulation of the virus in all Regions except in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, where there are signs of a decrease”, says Brusaferro, recalling that “in many countries the epidemic curves are are soaring. ” “In this week – highlights the expert – the incidence at 7 days per 100 thousand inhabitants has increased significantly, which has risen to 1,669 cases, and the transmissibility index, which remains constantly above 1”, and in case of the Rt calculated on the symptomatic “is strongly increasing. The one projected later in time is in fact equal to 1.83, indicative of a strong growth in the number of new cases. The Rt hospitalizations also rises, to 1.30, an indicator of growth in the number of new cases requiring hospitalization. And above 1 the cases will continue to increase “. GREATER GROWTH OF CASES IN THE 20-29 YEAR BAND Looking at the incidence of Covid in the various age groups, it emerges that there is “growth especially in the 20-29 age group, followed by the 10-19 and 30-39 age group. But progressively they begin to even the most advanced age groups, 40-49 years and 50-59 years, be involved – and this is an element on which to pay particular attention and precaution “.” At the pediatric level we can see that in the trend of “Covid” cases there has been a slowdown in growth in the 5-11 year old curve “, but the curve always has a positive sign. “And we see that the other curves show a growing trend also in these age groups. We can also see the impact of pediatric hospitalizations: although limited, they show that there is a need for hospitalization also for children and young people in the age group. under 19 “. REINFECTIONS ARE INCREASING, ESPECIALLY AMONG THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE BOOSTER “The trend of reinfections” from Sars-CoV-2 “is on the rise, and this confirms the data that appear in the literature”, according to which “substantially there is a particularly high risk of reinfection in people who do not update their immune situation with the booster “, then reports Brusaferro. OMICRON EXTREMELY CONTAGIOUS, WE NEED TO SLOW DOWN THE COVID epidemiological data of the week “show that Omicron is an extremely contagious variant and it is good to slow down its course. For this reason it is necessary to maintain prudent behavior and above all to rely on the booster dose of the vaccine to prevent forms more serious than the disease “, explains Rezza