Sicily risks yellow zone, contagion boom in the last week

The covid infection curve continues to grow in Sicily, a region at risk of the yellow zone. “The week that has just ended has seen a worrying increase in the spread of Covid-19 on the island, as for over a month now – underlines the head of the Municipality’s Statistics Office, Girolamo D’anneo -“. “The new positives, the current positives, the hospitalized (ordinary and in intensive care) and the admissions to intensive care have increased – he explains -. Based on the data released yesterday by the Civil Protection Department, in fact, in the week just ended the new positive in Sicily are 6,833, 34.1 per cent more than the previous week, when an increase of 14.7 per cent had already been recorded. The ratio between positive swabs and swabs carried out also increased, from 5, 1 to 6.3 per cent. 6 thousand new positives were not exceeded in a week for three and a half months (the last time in the week from April 26 to May 2, with 6,683 new positives). The number of new positives in the last seven days is almost nine times the number of new cases recorded in the week from 21 to 27 June (784) “. And again: “The current positives are 18,036, or 3,959 more than the previous week. The people in home isolation are 17,430 (3,825 more than the previous week) and the hospitalized are 606, of which 68 in intensive care. Compared to the seven The previous days increased by 134 units (ICU patients instead increased by 14 units). In the week just ended, 33 new ICU admissions were registered (17.9 percent more than 28 in the previous week) . The number of healed (231,294) has increased by 2,819 units and the percentage of healed out of the total positive is equal to 90.5 percent (91.9 percent last Sunday). The number of deaths recorded in the week is equal to 55, however, 14 died in the previous week and one in June, so the actual number of victims in the last week was 40 (compared to 53 in the previous week). ute are 6,141, and the lethality rate (deaths / total positives) is 2.4 percent (like last week). The total hospitalized represent 3.4 per cent of the current positives (the hospitalized in intensive care 0.4 per cent) “.