Covid Italy today, Civil Protection and regional contagion bulletin 28 August

Today’s Covid Italia bulletin, Saturday 28 August 2021, with data and news from the Civil Protection – region by region – on infections, hospitalizations, deaths. The numbers from Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and Campania while the positivity rate in the country is 2.9%. Sicily, thanks to the infections linked to the Delta variant, passes into the yellow zone from Monday. The numbers of big cities like Rome, Milan and Naples. The point about the vaccine campaign, while there is the ok to extend the validity of the Green Pass to 12 months. The data of the regions: APULIA There are 304 new coronavirus infections in Puglia according to today’s bulletin, 28 August. Also recorded another death. 15,321 daily tests carried out, 4,646 people currently positive. 238 hospitalized in non-critical area, 22 in intensive care. The total cases in the Region since the beginning of the pandemic are 263,031 for 3,249,481 tests performed. 251,683 people healed, 6,702 deaths in total.TUSCANY There are 601 new infections from Coronavirus in Tuscany according to the Civil Protection bulletin today, Saturday 28 August 2021. The table refers to another 4 deaths. New cases are 0.2% more than the previous day’s total. In the last 24 hours there have been 697 healed for a total number of 251,517. Today 8,653 molecular swabs and 5,858 rapid antigenic swabs were performed, of which 4.1% were positive. The average age of today’s new positives is about 40 years. 11,026 people in isolation. A total of 460 people were hospitalized today, 13 more than yesterday, 47 in intensive care, one more in the last 24 hours. 7.003. Since the beginning of the pandemic there have been 7,003 deaths in the Region.