Covid today Italy, report: hospitalizations on the rise in 14 regions

The occupation of beds by Covid patients in the non-critical area wards of Italian hospitals is stable on average, now since March 8, at 13%, but – according to the latest data from the National Agency for Regional Health Services (Agenas), updated yesterday 21 March – has recorded growth, in the last 24 hours, in as many as 14 regions, with a peak in Calabria at 34%. At the national level, the data still emerges, on the same day a year ago the average percentage of employment was 42%. The region that records the greatest increase, 3 percentage points more in 24 hours, is Basilicata which thus reaches 28%; increase of 2 percentage points instead in Calabria (34%), Marche (21%), autonomous province of Bolzano (12%), autonomous province of Trento (8%), Umbria (30%) and Valle d’Aosta (12%) ); Friuli Venezia Giulia (11%), Lazio (17%), Lombardy (9%), Puglia (20%), Sardinia (21%), Sicily (24%) and Tuscany increased by 1 point (15%). Occupancy of beds instead of 1 percentage point in Campania (at 14%) and Piedmont (at 8%), while the other regions all remained stable over 24 hours.