"Cases of coronavirus, in Italy in this first week of July were a hundred times higher than in the same period last year," Enrico Cosioni, president of the Italian Regional Health Infrastructure Agency, said tonight.
Kosioni also stressed that "n hospitals all over the country the pressure of the new wave of coronavirus is increasing" and that "emergency departments are ready to explode".
At the same time, the head of Italy's regional health infrastructure asked all the country's local authorities to increase, once again, the number of beds for Covid-19 patients, both in hospital wards and intensive care units.
Today, 107,240 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Italy and 94 people have died. 13% of hospital beds are used to treat patients with coronavirus, while in ICUs the corresponding figure is 4%.
Last year, at the beginning of July, in ICUs and hospital wards, patients with Covid-19 did not exceed 2% of the total. In a total of 378,250 diagnostic tests, finally, 28.3% tested positive in the last 24 hours.
Source: APM
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