Covid Italy, down infections and hospitalizations: four other regions in yellow from Monday

The curve of infections and hospitalizations for Covid-19 in Italy continues to fall. The latest report from the Ministry of Health records 50,534 new infections and 252 deaths. With 492,045 processed swabs, the positivity rate drops to 10.3%. Intensive care (-34) and ordinary hospitalizations (-561) are also down. Meanwhile, the green light for the ‘fourth’ dose for immunocompromised patients arrives from the CTS of Aifa. And from tomorrow, Monday 21 February, Abruzzo, Marche, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta will be back in yellow. Read also BULLETIN There are 50,534 new coronavirus infections today 19 February 2022 in Italy, according to Covid data and numbers – region by region – of the Civil Protection bulletin and the Ministry of Health. There are another 252 deaths. The data from the Ministry of Health recorded 492,045 swabs, for a positive rate of 10.27%. There are 13,387 hospitalized with symptoms, 953 patients currently in intensive care. Currently positive people are 1,369,778 with a drop of 34,344 from yesterday. In the last 24 hours there are 84,767 healed, bringing the total to 10,905,147 since the beginning of the pandemic. FOUR REGIONS RETURN TO THE YELLOW Abruzzo, Marche, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta leave the orange zone and return to the yellow zone from Monday 21 February “to light of the data from the control room “on the trend of Covid-19 in Italy. This was announced by the Ministry of Health. In the new covid map of Italy, only Friuli Venezia Giulia remains in the orange zone. At the end of the month, the return to the white zone is looming for Lombardy, Veneto and Campania. INCIDENCE AND RTA at national level, the incidence and Rt continue to decline. per 100,000 inhabitants last week. As regards the average Rt index calculated on symptomatic cases, in the period January 26-February 8, it is equal to 0.77 (range 0.72-0.88), a decrease compared to the previous week and below the threshold epidemic, as shown by the monitoring data Iss. FOURTH DOSE Free of the Technical Scientific Commission of the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) to the fourth dose of anti-Covid vaccine for severely immunosuppressed patients, who have completed the primary course of immunization, consisting of for this category of two doses plus the additional one. Dall’Aifa clarify that for immunocompromised patients the fourth dose would be equivalent to the booster dose offered to the general population: a first reminder to follow the primary cycle ‘2 + 1’. The indication of the experts is that it is administered with mRna vaccines, at the same times as the booster for all. .