The pressure COVID-19 is exerting on
Italy's health systems is rising, with coronavirus hospital
admissions up in 17 regions in 24 hours, the national agency of
regional health services (AGENAS) said on Tuesday.
It said the situation was worst in Valle d'Aosta, where the
proportion of hospital places occupied by coronavirus patients
has risen to 45%, up nine percentage points and well above the
alert threshold of 15%, and in Calabria (31%) and Liguria (30%).
COVID hospital admissions were also up in Abruzzo (where the the
proportion of beds taken up by coronavirus patients has climbed
to 15%), Campania (18%), Emilia Romagna (17%), Friuli Venezia
Giulia (24%), Lazio (17%), Lombardy (21%), the autonomous
province of Bolzano (17%), Piedmont (23%), Puglia (11%),
Sardinia (11%), Sicily (24%), Tuscany (15%), Umbria (24%) and
Veneto (20%).
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