The risk of the COVID-19 epidemic in
Italy becoming "uncontrolled" has increased and the general
situation is deteriorating, according to a draft of the weekly
coronavirus monitoring report of the health ministry and the
Higher Health Institute (ISS).
It said the virus Rt reproduction number has been increasing for
five weeks and is now up to 1.09.
Lombardy and the autonomous province of Bolzano have the highest
Rt rates, 1,25, and the number is over 1 in nine regions.
Veneto has the highest incidence, with 365.61 COVID cases per
every 100,000 inhabitants.
The draft of the report said that the percentage of
intensive-care beds occupied by COVID-19 patients was above the
critical threshold of 30%.
It said the high level of contagion made it impossible to track
and trace cases.
The report said virus-mitigation measures should be maintained
to prevent the risk of a new upswing in cases.
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