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Earlier today, in ESICM: COVID-19 DIspatches From Northern Italy ICUs, we looked at a sobering plea by doctors working in Northern Italy for other hospitals to get ready to be inundated by large numbers of very sick coronavirus patients.
Italy is nearly tied with Iran for the largest number of COVID-19 cases in Europe (Iran=4747, Italy=4635), but has reported nearly 60% more deaths (Iran=124, Italy=197).There are anecdotal (and unconfirmed) reports that Iran's death toll is much higher than stated. But as it stands now, Italy is reporting a 4.2% apparent mortality rate. It is unclear whether this higher death rate reflects increased severity, a degradation in local health care delivery, or an inability to test a large number of mild or moderately ill cases.
In any event, the situation in Italy continues to grow worse with each passing day.
Covid-19: the cases in Italy at 6 pm on March 6th
As regards health monitoring relating to the spread of the new Coronavirus on the national territory, at the moment 3916 people are positive for the virus.
523 people have been healed.
There are 2394 patients hospitalized with symptoms, 462 are in intensive care, while 1060 are in home isolation.
197 have died, however this number can be confirmed only after the Istituto Superiore di Sanità has established the actual cause of the death.
The number of people infected in the individual regions is as follows:
- Lombardy 2612
- Emilia-Romagna 870
- Veneto 488
- Brands 159
- Piedmont 143
- Tuscany 79
- Campania 57
- Lazio 54
- Liguria 32
- Friuli Venezia Giulia 31
- Sicily 24
- Puglia 17
- Umbria 16
- Molise 12
- Autonomous Province of Trento 10
- Abruzzo 9
- Aosta Valley 7
- Sardinia 5
- Calabria 4
- Autonomous Province of Bolzano 4
- Basilicata 3
