Covid Italy, Gimbe: cases slow down in the last 7 days

The national decline of new coronavirus infections in Italy (-7.8%) is slowing down and cases rise in 22 provinces. Down intensive care (-11.7%), ordinary hospitalizations (-15.2%) and deaths (-28.3%). “It slows down the decline of new weekly cases – says Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation – which amount to around 122 thousand with a 7-day moving average of just over 17 thousand cases per day with a plateau and conditioned curve from the sharp drop in testing activity in the long bridge last weekend (-17.7% total buffers) “. “The slowdown in the decline of new weekly cases and the sharp reduction in the number of tampons parallel to the increase in the positivity rate are ‘red lights’ confirmed by the resumption of viral circulation in some Provinces, probably driven by the Omicron BA.5 sub-variant. “, comments Cartabellotta. “Compared to the previous week, 85 provinces recorded a percentage reduction in new cases (from -0.3% in Parma to -35.2% in Aosta); the provinces in which there is an increase (from + 0.4% in Messina, Padua and Rome to + 20.2% in Enna), in 7 cases greater than 10%. In no province the incidence exceeds 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, settling between 86 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of Bergamo and 374 of Cagliari “. Cartabellotta: “Continue to wear a mask indoors after June 15” “In an epidemiological context that still has over 600,000 positives (a number which is largely underestimated), taking into account the uncertainties about the prevalence of the Ba.5 variant as well as the low number of elderly people and fragile covered with the fourth dose, it is prudent to continue wearing the mask indoors, especially if crowded or poorly ventilated, regardless of the Government’s decision to extend its use on means of transport “after June 15, underlines Cartabellotta again. , which especially recommends “the use of the mask foreseen during electoral and referendum consultations: it is essential to minimize the probability of outbreaks in the polling stations, as well as to raise the level of protection for the elderly and the frail, who must have the opportunity to exercise their essential right to vote in conditions of maximum security “.