Covid Veneto, Zaia: “Orange zone? Data says no”

Veneto still has yellow zone covid numbers. Governor Luca Zaia says this, rattling off the data relating to the emergency in the region. “The data tells us that we would not be orange. The Rt index is 1.34. The ICU occupancy rate is 20%, so we have reached” the threshold for moving into the orange zone. “If the occupancy rate drops, it makes us breathe. At 20% we are in the orange zone,” explains the governor. “In the medical area, the employment rate is 25%: we are missing 5 points, if the trend is this” we reach 30% “in a week. The incidence is 2238.8 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. The Omicron variant is 65.9% in Veneto. This means that in 10 days we are all Omicron “, he adds. A model” gives us the peak of infections on January 23. That of hospitalizations, on February 12. It could be even only 10 people in more hospitalized, but the situation should not be underestimated. Do not tell us that the hospital is not needed with the covid: in a month I am 2 years in this situation … “.