There are 13 cases of Omicron in Italy, while the Covid19 epidemic is still expanding and the incidence reaches 173 positive per 100 thousand inhabitants.
The picture was updated by Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Iss), during a hearing in the Senate's Constitutional Affairs Commission. In the last 24 hours, 15,756 Covid test positives have been identified, according to data from the Ministry of Health. 99 victims in one day.
"As far as bed occupancy is concerned - explained Brusaferro -, we have a growth that increases by about one percentage point per week at the national level" and "continues to grow even in intensive care".
There are currently 11 Omicron variant sequences in Italy, "others are suspicious, and affect more regions," Brusaferro reported. A balance that is burdened with another case identified in Veneto and one in Piedmont, bringing the Italian cases to 13. They were recorded above all in Campania, where a cluster of 7 people was formed, one in Calabria, one in Sardinia, 2 in Veneto and one in the autonomous province of Bolzano. "They concern cases of people who had passed through South Africa or their close contacts," the ISS president specified. The second case of the Omicron variant, announced by the President of the Region Luca Zaia, concerns a 77-year-old woman, residing in Padua and who was subjected to monoclonal therapy. The first variant was sequenced on 3 December in a 40-year-old from Vicenza, who had returned from South Africa. His wife and one of the children had been infected with the Delta variant, probably contracted on other occasions. Another sequencing is underway on the couple's youngest daughter. Everyone is in good health.
(Unioneonline / ss)
