research and monitoring on long-term effects
The number of those recovered is strengthened, which broke through 14 thousand, reaching 14,103 yesterday. According to ISS data, there are 17 new positives compared to 22 healings in the last 24 hours. The active positives drop to 220. The situation in the hospital remains stable with 2 patients, none in intensive care.
Meanwhile they proceed studies and projects related to the management of the so-called Long Covid, namely the long-term effects of the infection on negativized patients. Ad hoc protocols have already been formulated, a multidisciplinary team has been activated and – says the Secretary of Health, Roberto Ciavatta – “the department of neurology has started a search to investigate the organic causes, promising research – he says – and which must now enter the experimental phase “. emergency group the will to “activate a disturbance monitoringto get a data closer to reality on the reported effects – says the Director of the Health Authority, Claudio Muccioli, who specifies – above all respiratory, heart and, above all, neurological problems“.
In Italy, the percentage of beds in the non-critical area occupied by Covid patients drops to 16% (another point less than yesterday), a value that exactly one year ago reached 30%. According to the National Agency for Regional Health Services, the employment of the intensive is instead stopped at 7%, compared to 25% recorded last year.
Istat and ISS release the seventh report on the impact of Covid on total mortality. 145,334 deaths associated with the diagnosis of Sars-CoV-2 infection reported and occurred by 31 January. The 53% of deaths occurred in 2020, 41% in 2021 and 5.8% in January 2022. Yet, 42% of Covid-19 cases in Italy since the start of the pandemic were diagnosed in January for the predominance of Omicron: 4 and a half million out of the almost 11 million total cases.
In the video, the interview with the Director of the Health Authority, Claudio Muccioli