From Monday 10 January almost all of Italy will be yellow. Only 6 regions will remain blank: Molise, Puglia, Sardinia, Basilicata, Umbria and Campania (but with the latter 2 almost at strong yellow risk from 17 January). The official decisions will be taken during the day from the control room after the examination of the usual weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss).
From Monday 10 in yellow 4 Regions
But according to the data, the explosion of cases of Covid and the growth in hospitalizations will determine the transition to the yellow band starting from next Monday of other 4 regions: Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Abruzzo and Valle d’Aosta. They will join the 9 regions and 2 autonomous provinces already in yellow (Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont, Liguria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trento PA, Bolzano PA, Marche, Lazio, Calabria and Sicily).
It should be specified that with the obligation to wear a mask outdoors even in the white area there is no longer any distinction between the two areas in terms of anti-contagion measures. But in the yellow area hospital admissions are greater (over 10% of Covid patients in intensive care and over 15% in ordinary wards) and therefore the saturation of beds is a more serious problem than in the white area.
The increase in hospitalizations
On the basis of the data used by the control room (referring to the hospitalization situation on January 6), theEmilia Romagna (19.4% hospitalization rate in ordinary wards and 15.7% in intensive care), the Tuscany (17.9% of admissions in non-critical areas and 17.2% in resuscitation), theAbruzzo (18.7% of Covid patient admissions in ordinary wards and 13.3% in intensive care) and Valle d’Aosta who has hospitalizations in ordinary wards even from the red zone (42.4%) but intensive care at 15.1 percent. With two more hospitalizations in intensive care, the orange would go off. With five more the red.
Umbria and Campania at risk
It risks leaving the white band shortly even theUmbria (27.3% in non-critical area admissions and 9.4% in resuscitation) and the Campania (19.8% and 9.8% respectively).
Liguria touches orange
While the Liguria, long in the balance, narrowly avoids the orange zone this week. It has in fact exceeded the critical threshold of 30% of admissions of Covid patients in ordinary wards (we are at 34.2%) but only touches that of 20% in intensive care (we are at 19.9% - given the control room). Also dangerously close to the orange zone Calabria (33.7% in ordinary wards and 17.8% in resuscitation). Under observation the Marche (24.1% in non-critical area and 23.9% in intensive care