Covid today Italy, Civil Protection bulletin and regional infections 19 August

Today’s Covid Italy bulletin, Thursday 19 August 2021, with data and news from the Civil Protection – region by region – on infections, hospitalizations, deaths from Veneto and Lombardy, Tuscany and Lazio, Campania and Sicily, the latter at risk of the yellow zone like Sardinia. The numbers in the regions and cities: from Milan to Rome, from Naples to Palermo. PUGLIA There are 217 coronavirus infections in Puglia today, August 19, 2021, according to data from the region’s bulletin. Since yesterday, 2 deaths have been recorded, bringing the total deaths since the beginning of the covid-19 epidemic to 6,688. New cases were identified on 12,761 tests. Currently positive people are 4,334. 145 patients hospitalized for covid in non-critical area. In intensive care, however, 23 people. “The new cases registered in Tuscany are 844 out of 14,227 tests, of which 9,406 molecular swabs and 4,821 rapid tests. The rate of new positives is 5.93% (12.5% ​​on the first diagnoses)”, writes Giani, adding that the vaccines currently administered are 4,604,247.