Italy's COVID-19 incidence and Rt
transmission number have remained on a downward trend, the
weekly coronavirus monitoring report of the health ministry and
the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said on Friday.
It said the incidence for the October 20-26 period was 374 cases
for every 100,000 inhabitants, down from 448 the previous week.
It said the Rt number was 1.11 in the October 5-18 period,
compared to 1.27 in last week's report.
Furthermore, the transmission index based on hospital admissions
was 0.94, below the threshold of 1, indicating the epidemic is
no longer in a phase of expansion.
The report said the proportion of Italy's intensive-care beds
taken up by COVID patients was 2.2% on October 27, down from
2.4% on October 20.
It said the proportion of ordinary-ward hospital places occupied
by coronavirus sufferers had dropped from 11% to 10.8%.
The number of regions/autonomous provinces with a COVID hospital
occupation rate above the 15% alert threshold of 15% has dropped
from eight to seven.
They are Umbria (34.7%), Valle d'Aosta (23.9%), province of
Bolzano (17.8%), province of Trento and Friuli Venezia Giulia
(both 15.9%), Liguria (15.3%) and Marche (15.1%).
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