Covid Italia, “Rt towards 1.24 next week”

In Italy struggling with the coronavirus and the Delta variant, “the increased RT, that is projected forward by a week”, signals a value of “1.24, with an interval of 1.21-1.27”. This was reported by the president of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss), Silvio Brusaferro, during the press conference on the analysis of the data of the Covid regional monitoring of the control room. Read also Currently in Italy the Rt index is at 0.91, up from last week when it stood at 0.66. This is what emerged from the monitoring. The circulation of the Delta variant is growing, is underlined in the draft of the Iss-Ministry of Health report. “The general picture of the transmission of the Sars-CoV-2 infection returns to worsen in the country with almost all the Regions and autonomous provinces classified as moderate epidemic risk “the experts remark in the draft of the report with the monitoring data for the week 5-11 July. “There are 19 Regions and Autonomous Provinces classified at moderate risk and two (Trento and Valle D’Aosta) at low risk”. “The impact of the Covid-19 disease on hospital services – say the experts – remains minimal with rates of employment in the medical area and intensive care still slightly decreasing “. “The transmissibility on symptomatic cases alone increases compared to the previous week, although below the epidemic threshold, an expression – they explain – of an increase in viral circulation mainly in young and more frequently asymptomatic subjects”. “No Region or autonomous province exceeds the critical threshold of occupancy of beds in intensive care or medical area. The employment rate in intensive care is 2%, with a decrease in the number of people hospitalized from 187 (as of July 6) to 157 (as of July 13). employment in medical areas nationwide remains at 2%. The number of people hospitalized in these areas goes from 1,271 (6 July) to 1,128 (13 July) “, we read again.