Italy - Covid-19: 286,297 cases,?35,603 deaths

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[h=3]Covid-19, the cases in Italy at 6 pm on February 26th[/h]

400 people are infected with the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus in Italy. Of these 12 people died and 3 people recovered.

128 patients are hospitalized with symptoms, 36 are in intensive care, while 221 are in home isolation.

These are the official figures communicated today at the 18:00 conference by the Commissioner for the emergency of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli.



In the individual Regions the number of infected people is as follows:

• Lombardy Region: 258
• Veneto Region: 71
• Emilia Romagna Region: 47
• Piedmont Region: 3
• Lazio: 3 (the 2 Chinese tourists and the resigned researcher)
• Sicily: 3
• Liguria: 11
• Tuscany: 2
• Brands: 1
• Autonomous Province of Bolzano: 1

Watch the video with the point of the situation of 26 February at 6 pm of the Civil Protection



For more information:

New coronavirus site

Page situation in the world

Situation page in Italy

ISS website

Civil Protection website

http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nu...=italiano&menu=notizie&p=dalministero&id=4112

 

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https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...n_italia_aggiornamento_ora_per_ora-249241616/

[h=3]New cases in Liguria, Lombardy and Puglia, the number of infections rises to 455[/h] [h=4]There are 305 cases of contagion in Lombardy, but the number also rises in Liguria and the first case is recorded in Puglia where a tarantino returning from Codogno was positive. Now the total number in Italy is 455 infected.[/h]

 

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Coronavirus: first case in Puglia

This was announced by the President of the Region Michele Emiliano

ANSA
BARI
Editorial Staff
February 26, 2020
9:18 pm
NEWS

(ANSA) - BARI, FEBRUARY 26 - There is the first case of coronavirus positivity in Puglia, the President of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano reports. It is, reports Emiliano, of a person residing in the province of Taranto seems to come from Codogno in Lombardy, where he had visited, positive for the Coronavirus test. "The patient - Emiliano reports - has been isolated since yesterday at the infectious ward of the Santissima Annunziata hospital in a negative pressure room, he was taken from the home where he said he lived alone in an ambulance of 118 dedicated by personnel equipped with the necessary devices of Protection: the course of the flu is regular and uncomplicated.

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/top...lia_833a4d87-3373-4112-85aa-6ab918350813.html

 

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Coronavirus, positive student of the University of Florence. "First case in a university"

He is a 26 year old Norwegian who lives in the center, who has returned to Italy for a few days

Florence, February 26, 2020 - A 26-year-old Norwegian student tested positive for a first coronavirus test in Florence and for which the Tuscany Region awaits validation by the ISS. This is the first case of a university student in Italy infected with the coronavirus ( CLICK HERE for the press release from the University of Florence).

The health authorities have activated an epidemiological investigation to reconstruct the presence of other possible cases related to that of the 26 year old. According to what has been reconstructed, the student had returned from Florence for five days , by plane, with a stopover in Monaco , after a period of two weeks spent in his country. Times that currently do not exclude that he may have contracted any infection in his country of origin, or during the return trip to Italy.

According to what was explained by the Region, the young man, who has lived in Florence since last August for study purposes and lives in the city center, "accused a fever and was hospitalized last night, with a reserved path and in isolation, in the hospital of Santa Maria Annunziata in Ponte a Niccheri , in the infectious diseases department. It is now in good condition and the temperature has already returned to normal. The contacts he has had are being reconstructed, mostly in the Florentine area ?.

https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/coronavirus-universita-studente-positivo-1.5047772

 

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Coronavirus, Ricciardi: 'Next week we will understand if the emergency begins to return in Italy'
Minister Speranza's adviser: 'Wrong use of tampons, confirmed cases are less numerous'. ?I have experienced four epidemics, all behaving in the same way. A respiratory virus cannot stop unless it closes a continent en bloc ?



'Those who gave the indication to make tampons even to people without symptoms, the asymptomatics, got it wrong. Veneto's strategy has not been corrected because it has derogated from scientific evidence. The World Health Organization guidelines, taken up by the Health Minister's order of 21 February, were not applied. They provided that the tests would be carried out only on symptomatic subjects in the presence of two characteristics: contact with confirmed Covid-19 patients and the origin from outbreak shalzones.' Walter Ricciardi, a hygienist, has been an adviser to Minister Roberto Speranza since Monday. Today all over the world we have tests that are not perfect from the point of view of sensitivity because they have been developed in a short time and need to be perfected. So there's a wide chance of overestimating positivity. It is necessary to use them appropriately.' conducted in local laboratories. So less than the 374 reported cases that instead include those awaiting confirmation. The result of the positivity was anticipated by the Regions, Veneto but also Liguria, before the final answer, and the Ministry of Health by obligation of transparency was in a position to communicate this information to the WHO.'


https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_...NN_IMFdnsp75FE

 

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Coronavirus in Veneto, hospitals under pressure: more infections among doctors
Another cluster grows in Treviso. Zaia orders another 200 permanent hires for the emergency

VENICE The two Coronavirus outbreaks of Veneto and Lombardy are connected. "It is an already established hypothesis," said WHO's Walter Ricciardi, who sent his officials to the two most affected Italian regions. Meanwhile, while the Veneto health system is reorganizing itself to better face the emergency, trying to protect its operators as much as possible, we learn that there is a new white coat infected in Padua. He is an intern from the hospital, a university student, tested positive for the swab and now hospitalized for infectives. He would have been infected not in Padua, where he works, but in Geriatria in Treviso, where he occasionally lends Treviso. One of the patients affected by Covid-19 would have infected him, now in Intensive Care but before he went to Geriatrics, where the doctor was the guard. The Paduan internist, now hospitalized in Padua, was in fact included in the cluster (outbreak) of Treviso. There would therefore be no coronavirus outbreak in the city. "The commitment with which all the colleagues of the departments most affected by the epidemic work is moving - comments Giampiero Avruscio, president of Anpo (primary) -. Nobody shrinks, on the contrary, the dedication is total and unfortunately the risk is high ?.

The white coats involved

Thus the number of white coats involved in the infection between Vo ', Limena, Treviso, Mestre and Venice rises to about fifteen (updates are continuous), but only the Paduan is hospitalized. The others - including family doctors - are in home isolation and the last four are Ca 'Foncello specialists infected by the second Venetian victim, Luciana Mangi?, the 76-year-old from the country who has also infected 4 nurses and two social-health workers. Now the outcome of the tampons for the caregiver and the two neighbors is expected, but in the meantime Veneto has a new cluster (outbreak) in the Marca, with 14 cases. It is the fifth, next to those of Vo 'Euganeo (43 cases), of the hospital of Mirano (5), of the civilian of Venice (9) and of Limena (8), who records the first positive girl on the test, one of the two in Italy (the other is in Lombardy), but asymptomatic and in home isolation. Like classmates, teachers and janitors of the elementary school that the 8-year-old girl, the granddaughter of an elderly man in intensive care in Padua, attends. And that will remain closed for 14 days, the incubation time for the disease. There are also 9 patients to be associated with an outbreak, for a total of 88 infected. One of them from Belluno, the first, but residing in Treviso.

https://corrieredelveneto.corriere....Ekwl-H8xbWsbJ_PLx4G4Yy71miZ3408&refresh_ce-cp

 

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Source: https://www.ansa.it/canale_saluteeb...el-_44aa77f9-f6c2-403c-995b-dc557a8b5391.html

Coronavirus, Borrelli, 528 infected and 14 dead
Head of civil protection, '37 people have recovered in Lombardy'
ANSA ROMA editorial staff February 27, 202012: 58


528 people tested positive for the Coronavirus test. The head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, said during a press conference to take stock of the spread of the virus. The dead are 14, he adds, SO 14 are the deaths from Coronaviruses, even if "we are waiting for the results of the investigations of the Higher Institute of Health for the official". "37 people were healed in Lombardy". "There are 282 positive swabs sent by the Regions to the ISS and all have been confirmed by the Institute at midnight yesterday", continues Borrelli.

 

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Source: https://nonelaradio.it/coronavirus-primo-caso-a-napoli/

Coronavirus, third case in Campania and first in Naples: fifty year old in good condition
by Editorial board
February 27, 2020

There is a likely third case of Coronavirus in Campania, this time in Naples. According to what is learned from sources within the Campania Region, a third positive buffer was carried out in the city and was then sent to Rome for confirmation by the Istituto Superiore di Sanit?. It would be a 50-year-old Neapolitan resident in the historic center, now in solitary confinement at home, in good health. He would have returned to the city from Lombardy in recent days.

In the meantime, confirmation of the positivity of one of the two swabs arriving from Campania yesterday at the Spallanzani Institute has arrived. The two women are a 24 year old from Caserta (now in Cotugno) and the other from Vallo della Lucania, in the province of Salerno who works as a laboratory technician in Cremona and who two days ago returned to his family members in Vallo. The path of the last two days of the buffer positive people has been reconstructed. Both come from the North, one of the two went directly to the hospital, the other is asymptomatic.

 

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Source: http://www.torinotoday.it/cronaca/caso-coronavirus-Asti.html

Coronavirus | Positive case in Piedmont: | Woman admitted to Asti hospital
Part of the Asti group hosted at an Alassio hotel from 4 to 18 February
Editorial board
February 27, 2020 1:07 pm

Coronavirus | Positive case in Piedmont: | Woman admitted to Asti hospital

The patient admitted yesterday to the Cardinal Massaia hospital in Asti was tested positive for the "coronavirus covid19" test. It is an 84-year-old woman who was part of the group of Asti people hosted at the hotel in Alassio from 4 to 18 February. The regional councilorship for health of Piedmont reports in a note. Pending validation of the test by the Higher Institute of Health, the members of the group were placed under active surveillance at their home.
Two infections in Piedmont

At the moment, therefore, there are two people positive for the tests on coronavirus covid19 in Piedmont, the first hospitalized in Turin and the second in Asti. Four other people, belonging to the second group of Asti living in the hotel in Alassio and also tested positive for the test, are hospitalized at the San Martino hospital in Genoa ...

 

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Data on infections and healings


'In Italy, efforts are being made to communicate only the cases of new clinically relevant coronaviruses, that is, the clinical cases of patients in resuscitation or death, as occurs in other countries of the world': said the scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute, Giuseppe Ippolito, in conference with the foreign press. The 'swab positives made for any other reason will go to an extremely important separate list - he said - for the definition of the epidemiological situation'.




https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...97970/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I249675643-C8-P4-S1.8-T1

 

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I totally disagree with this statement

 

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I totally disagree with this statement

I do not understand. Does Italy have 2 separate lists? A list for clinically ill people, but have no test results, and a separate list for people who test positive for COVID-19? Are all of these cases being reported?

 

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[h=3]Covid-19: cases in Italy at 12 noon on February 27th[/h]

528 people are infected with the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus in Italy. Of these, 14 people died and 42 people recovered.

Compared to the bulletin at 6 pm on 26 February, there was an increase in the number of infected people of 128 units.

There are 159 patients hospitalized with symptoms, 37 are in intensive care, while 278 are in home isolation.

These are the official figures communicated today at the 12 noon conference by the Commissioner for the emergency of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli.



In the individual Regions the number of infected people is as follows:

• Lombardy: 305 (Increase of +47 cases compared to the bulletin of February 26th - 6pm)
• Veneto: 98 (Increase of +27 cases compared to the bulletin of February 26th - 6pm)
• Emilia Romagna: 97 (Increase of + 50 cases compared to the bulletin of February 26th - 6pm)
• Liguria: 11
• Lazio: 3 (the 2 Chinese tourists and the resigned researcher)
• Marche: 3 (Increase of +2 cases compared to the bulletin of February 26th - 18.00)
• Piedmont: 3
• Sicily: 3
• Campania: 2
• Tuscany: 2
• Abruzzo: 1
• Autonomous Province of Bolzano: 1

Watch the video with the point of the situation of February 27 at 12 noon of the Civil Protection

For more information:

New Coronavirus Site

Civil Protection website

ISS website


Release date: February 27, 2020 , latest update February 27, 2020

http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nu...=italiano&menu=notizie&p=dalministero&id=4116

 

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I do not understand. Does Italy have 2 separate lists? A list for clinically ill people, but have no test results, and a separate list for people who test positive for COVID-19? Are all of these cases being reported?

The intention is to consider only serious and dead cases as cases that will be communicated, the rest will be counted separately and only for epidemiological purposes

China was accused of hiding the cases, I don't believe it. Italy is deciding to hide the cases and downplay the epidemic

If the cases are few and concern only elderly or fragile people it will be more simple to say that the epidemic is no worrysome

 

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Source: https://www.ansa.it/canale_saluteeb...rus_23861224-838b-474b-8ca5-f466910a141e.html

Coronavirus positives rose to 650 in Italy. Then there are three other deaths in Lombardy, all over 80 years old. The head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli said it, taking stock of the emergency. Three other people in Lombardy with Coronavirus were also cured: there are now 40 in the region. "Everything is normal, there is no problem in the red zone," said Borrelli. "The Department has made available and over 35 thousand masks are arriving in Emilia Romagna, Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto".

 

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[h=4]The situation in Italy: February 27, 2020, 18.00[/h]
POSITIVE
650
DECEASED
17
HEALED
45


Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 18 on 27 February:

• 650 people affected by Covid-19 with an increase of 128 cases, compared to 12 noon on 27 February, of which:
  • 17 deceased
  • 45 healed

The infected people are divided as follows by Region:

• 403 Lombardy
• 111 Veneto
• 97 Emilia Romagna
• 19 Liguria
• 3 Lazio (two Chinese tourists hospitalized at Spallanzani and the resigned researcher, all recovered)
• 3 Brands
• 3 Tuscany
• 4 Sicily
• 2 Piedmont
• 3 Campania
• 1 Abruzzo
• 1 Puglia
• 1 Trentino Alto Adige

Watch the videos of the Civil Protection Bulletins



The first cases in Italy

The first two cases of Coronavirus in Italy, a couple of Chinese tourists, were confirmed on January 30 by the Spallanzani Institute , where they were hospitalized in isolation from January 29). On February 26, they were declared healed.

The first case of secondary transmission occurred at Codogno Hospital on February 18, 2020.

The majority of cases detected are in home isolation and do not require hospital treatment. [h=4]Surveillance and controls [/h]
In our country there is a surveillance network on the new coronavirus and controls and screening have been activated under the coordination of the ministerial task force .

Italy blocked on 30 January with an order from the Minister of Health all flights to and from China for 90 days, in addition to those from Wuhan, already suspended by the Chinese authorities.

The Italian government declared the state of emergency on 31 January, earmarked the first funds and appointed Chief of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli as extraordinary Commissioner for the emergency.

The Council of Ministers has passed a decree-law with measures for the prohibition of access and removal in the municipalities where outbreaks are present and the suspension of demonstrations and events.

Based on the Prime Minister's Decree of 23 February 2020, the Municipalities involved in the urgent measures to contain and manage the infection are:

• in the Lombardy Region : a) Bertonico; b) Casalpusterlengo; c) Castelgerundo; d) Castiglione D'Adda; e) Codogno; f) Fombio; g) Maleo; h) San Fiorano; i) Somaglia; j) Terranova dei Passerini.
• in the Veneto Region : a) Vo '.

See also:

• Civil protection
• Situation in the world

Last updated: February 27, 2020

http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nu...iano&id=5351&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto

 

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Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...nges-virus-count-methods-at-un-agencys-urging

Italy Blasts Virus Panic as It Eyes New Testing Criteria
Italy has tried to control the coronavirus in the realm of public perception as its outbreak grew to 650 cases and other countries limited travel to and from affected Italian regions.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content Feb. 27, 2020, at 4:39 p.m.

...Public health officials have said that Italy contributed to fears of an epidemic in Europe with its zealousness in testing for the virus and quickly reporting the number that came back positive from local regions.

A World Health Organization official advising the Italian government, Walter Ricciardi, said test results must be certified at the national level before they are considered official and publicly reported. Without confirmation from Italy's National Institutes of Health, "cases that emerge from the regions are still considered suspect and unconfirmed,” Ricciardi said.

It remains to be seen whether or how the higher-level review of positive tests changes Italy's case numbers. So far, none of the 282 cases analyzed by the national health institute were rejected as false positives, and Italian authorities said they suspect that almost all of the preliminary results will be confirmed, too.

Italian health officials are making another change in their testing protocols that may slow the growth of new case numbers. The country expects to limit coronavirus testing to at-risk people showing symptoms of COVID-19, said Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director at Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases.

Previously, Italy was testing anyone who visited certain towns in northern Italy or came into contact with someone infected with the virus but not necessarily showing symptoms...

 

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Coronavirus, Governor Zaia to the government: ?Revoke the ordinance, emergency is past. From Monday I reopen the schools in Veneto ?




VENICE - 'Coronavirus, I think the ordinance should be revoked'. This was stated by the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia, referring to the Ministry of Health-Region ordinance with the security measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus.

'Today in Veneto - added Zaia - we have an increase in the number of infected people that is minimal, a dozen more cases, of which more than half asymptomatic and the others are not serious'. According to Zaia 'there is therefore no exponential peak that justifies' the maintenance of the measures envisaged in the ordinance in force until March 1. 'I hope that at national level it will be decided to revoke the minimum of ordinances that has been done' Zaia continued. 'It is - he concluded - a media pandemic that lives on social networks. And I remember that in Veneto no commercial activity has been blocked. Veneto is not blocked ?.


https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/...a-5078282.html

 

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Veneto, the area in which I live, is the second biggest outbreak in Italy. It is too early to say that emergency is over. We cannot let our guard down at this time when the epidemic is growing and we still don't know what direction it will take. People's lives are more important than economic problems.

 

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[h=3]Covid-19: regional toll-free numbers[/h]

Civil protection invites to go to the emergency room or to the health facilities and to call the emergency numbers only if strictly necessary.

The Regions have activated dedicated numbers and regional toll-free numbers for the populations of the territories where cases of new coronavirus have occurred to respond to requests for information and on urgent measures to contain the infection.

Family doctors and pediatricians of free choice also invite you not to go to the studios and clinics in case of respiratory symptoms (cold, cough, fever), but to contact them by phone.

Contact 112 or 118, not for information, but only in case of need. [h=4]Here are the regional toll-free numbers activated for the new coronavirus emergency:[/h]

• Basilicata : 800 99 66 88
• Calabria : 800 76 76 76
• Campania : 800 90 96 99
• Emilia-Romagna : 800 033 033
• Friuli Venezia Giulia : 800 500 300
• Lazio : 800 118 800
• Lombardy : 800 89 45 45
• Brands : 800 93 66 77
• Piedmont : 800 333 444
• Autonomous Province of Trento : 800 86 73 88
• Puglia : 800 713 931
• Sicily : 800 45 87 87
• Tuscany : 800 55 60 60
• Trentino Alto Adige : 800 751 751
• Umbria : 800 63 63 63
• Aosta Valley : 800 122 121
• Veneto : 800 46 23 40

[h=4][/h] [h=4]Other useful numbers dedicated to the new coronavirus emergency:[/h]
Abruzzo

In the Abruzzo Region, the following numbers are active for the health emergency:

• ASL n. 1 L'Aquila: 118
• ASL n. 2 Chieti-Lanciano-Vasto: 800 860 146
• ASL n. 3 Pescara: 118
• ASL n. 4 Teramo: 800 090 147

Liguria

• In the Liguria Region, the emergency number coronavirus 112 is active

Molise

• In the Molise Region the following numbers are active for information or notifications: 0874 313000 and 0874 409000

Sardinia

• In the Sardinia Region for information call 333 61 44 123

Piacenza

• In the Municipality of Piacenza for information contact 0523 317979 : active from Monday to Friday, from 8 to 18 and on Saturday from 8 to 13

The public utility number 1500 of the Ministry of Health is also active.

To find out more, visit the new coronavirus website


Release date: February 28, 2020 , latest update February 28, 2020

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