Covid today Italy, Civil Protection bulletin and regional infections 17 August

Today’s Covid Italia bulletin, Tuesday 17 August 2021, with data and news from the Civil Protection – region by region – on infections, hospitalizations and deaths. The numbers from Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and Campania while in the country the Delta variant is prevalent and regions such as Sicily and Sardinia risk passing into the yellow zone. The situation in big cities like Rome, Milan and Naples and the point about vaccines. Data from the regions: APULIA There are 165 new coronavirus infections in Puglia according to data from today’s bulletin, 17 August 2021. There are another 2 deaths in the last 24 hours. 13,287 swabs have been tried since yesterday. The new cases are distributed over the territory as follows: Province of Bari 19, Bat 33, Brindisi 13, Foggia 13, Lecce 59, Taranto 25, residents outside region 1, province in definition 2. In Puglia there are 4,201 currently positive people: of these , 137 are hospitalized in a non-critical area and 23 in intensive care. The total cases since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic are 259,950, the deaths 6,684.TUSCANY There are 396 new coronavirus infections detected in Tuscany in the last 24 hours, according to the regional bulletin released today, 17 August. There are 5 new deaths: 2 men and 3 women with an average age of 72.6 years. New cases are 0.2% more than the previous day’s total. 6,312 molecular swabs and 4,914 rapid antigenic swabs were performed, of which 3.5% were positive. On the other hand, 4,381 subjects tested today (with antigenic and / or molecular swab, excluding control swabs), of which 9% were positive. The hospitalized are 347 (13 more than yesterday), of which 38 in intensive care (1 more). The healed grew by 0.2% and reached 243,667 (92.7% of total cases). The currently positive are 12,274 today, -0.9% compared to yesterday. The average age of 396 new positives today is approximately 37 years. At 12 noon today a total of 4,552,113 vaccinations were carried out, 30,181 more than yesterday (+ 0.7%). There are 72,941 total cases to date in Florence (94 more than yesterday), 23,986 in Prato (42 more), 24,543 in Pistoia (47 more), 14,013 in Massa (5 more), 27,084 in Lucca (56 more), 31,326 in Pisa (48 more), 19,278 in Livorno (38 more), 24,244 in Arezzo (35 more), 14,851 in Siena (14 more), 10,078 in Grosseto (17 more). 555 positive cases were reported in Tuscany, but residing in other regions.