Covid Italy, intensive care employment grows in 5 regions

The average occupation of places by Covid patients in the intensive care units of Italian hospitals is stable, ‘stopped’ for a week now, from 11 January to be exact, at 18%, therefore still 8 percentage points above the 10% threshold considered critical, according to the latest data from the Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas), updated yesterday at 19.11. But from the data recorded in the 24 hours, employment appears to increase in 5 Regions: Campania with + 1% stands at 13%, Friuli Venezia Giulia with + 1% reaches 24%, Marche (+ 1%) at 25%, Puglia with + 1% records 13% and Tuscany which sees the occupancy of bed places rise by 2% (to 24%). The other Regions and autonomous provinces record stable or declining data. The average occupation of beds by Covid patients in the non-critical area wards of Italian hospitals, which has grown steadily in recent weeks, is stable from two days at 29%, well above the critical threshold of 15%, and in 24 hours it increased in 14 Regions and Autonomous Provinces: Abruzzo with + 1% stood at 30%, Calabria + 1% at 42%, Friuli Venezia Giulia + 1% at 31%, Lazio + 1% (at 28%) , Liguria with + 2% (40%), Lombardy + 1% (35%), Marche + 1% to 28%, Molise + 1% (14%), Province of Bolzano + 1% (19%), Province of Trento + 1% (26%), Puglia + 1% (22%), Sicily + 1% (36%), Tuscany + 1% (26%) and Veneto + 1% (26%). At the moment the Valle d’Aosta, with employment at 52%, even if down by 17% in the 24 hours, is the Region with the highest percentage, Molise the lowest, with 14%.