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Covid 19, stable infections and increasing hospitalizations. Twelve other victims in the last few hours

Covid 19, stable infections and increasing hospitalizations. Twelve other victims in the last few hours.

There were 9,718 new cases out of 76,689 daily tests analyzed. There are 559 hospitalized patients and 55 in intensive care. The current positives jump over 103 thousand. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Puglia, over 7,000 people have died. Vaccine campaign continues.

Covid 19, stable infections and increasing hospitalizations. Twelve other victims in the last few hours
Covid 19, stable infections and increasing hospitalizations. Twelve other victims in the last few hours

LECCE - Constant trend of infections this weekend in Puglia calculated with the new rules that also take into account the antigen tests carried out in pharmacies or in private laboratories of the regional network, made equivalent to molecular swabs, without the need for confirmation.

The new cases diagnosed in the last 24 hours with molecular or antigen tests were 9,718 out of 76,689 daily tests analyzed. However, the number of victims is rising: the regional bulletin counts another 12 after the eight reported yesterday and which brings the total count to 7,059 people who have died since the beginning of the pandemic.

The province most affected by the new infections in the last few hours is that of Bari with 3,161 cases, followed by the province of Lecce with 1,701 cases, and then the province of Foggia with 1,396 cases, that of Taranto with 1,292, the province of Bat with 1,123, while in that of Brindisi there were 917 cases. Another 64 are residents outside the region and for another 64 the origin is still being defined.

In the intensive care wards, where today there are 55 hospitalized, the critical threshold for occupancy of the beds, set at 10 per cent, travels on horseback, but according to the data of the national control room, the position of Puglia can remain at least for another seven days in the white zone. According to the latest Agenas update, the employment rate updated last night was 11 percent in intensive care units, while in covid medicine wards it rose up to 18 percent (the limit is set at 15 percent).

The number of current positives still goes back to the figure released yesterday: currently active cases are rising in Puglia 103,590 (yesterday they were 84,659), or 18,931 more than the previous figure. The updated situation in hospital departments also shows an increase in hospitalizations in non-critical areas: 559 patients. Yesterday there were 530.

With the updating of the latest data, a total of 417,380 people from Puglia have been infected by covid since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 60,256 in the province of Lecce. The total healed subjects have been, up to now, instead 306,731.

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Molecular tests of Lecce football

The Lecce club announced that all the components of the Giallorossi team and one of the three players who tested positive for covid-19 in the past few weeks, underwent molecular control tests yesterday, the results of which gave negative results.

Vaccines update

There are 4,000 administrations carried out yesterday during the first night of vaccination dedicated to the 12-19 year old age group. The initiative "The night is young" continues today and tomorrow, from 8 pm to midnight, in 34 Apulian hubs. Reservations are still open and can be made through the lapugliativaccina website, at the Cups and Farmacups by parents, guardians, carers of minors, indicating to download the forms to be filled in and delivered to the vaccination points at the same time.

In the province of Lecce, 10,028 vaccinations were carried out yesterday between vaccination points of the population, schools, pharmacies and general practitioners, at home and in outpatient clinics. Vaccination of children aged between 5 and 11 continues with 21,973 pediatric vaccinations carried out so far, 1,423 of which yesterday.

The first evening of the initiative "The night is young", dedicated to vaccination (first and third dose) with reservations for children 12-19 years, recorded 116 vaccinations in Gagliano, 210 in Poggiardo and 258 in the hub of the Castromediano Museum of Lecce.

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January 15, 2022 4:30 pm

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