Covid today Emilia, 1,263 infections and 2 deaths: bulletin 17 September

There are 1,263 new infections from Coronavirus today, September 17, 2022 in Lazio, according to Covid data in the latest bulletin of the Region. Since yesterday, 2 deaths have been recorded. 10,618 swabs were performed in the last 24 hours, of which 4,618 were molecular and 6,000 rapid antigen tests. Overall, the percentage of new positives on the number of tampons made is 11.8%. There are 2 deaths: 1 in the province of Parma (a 90-year-old man); 1 in Modena (a 91-year-old woman). There are no deaths in the provinces of Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini and in the Imola district. In total, since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been 17,979 deaths in the region. There are 21 patients currently hospitalized in the intensive care units in Emilia-Romagna (unchanged compared to yesterday), the average age is 63.7 years. As for the patients hospitalized in the other Covid departments, they are 612 (-14 compared to yesterday, -2.2%), average age 74.7 years.The situation of infections in the provinces sees Bologna, with 207 new cases out of a total from the beginning of the epidemic of 376,693, followed by Modena (173) and Reggio Emilia (162), then Parma (138); Ravenna (132) and Rimini (121); then Ferrara (86), Cesena (71), Piacenza (66) and Forlì (65). 15,139 people in home isolation.