Intensive care admissions are decreasing in Sardinia, but in the latest bulletin there have been as many as 46 new entries of Covid patients in the ordinary wards of hospitals.
A figure that is added to the new daily infections - more than three thousand in the latest update, of which over 2,400 diagnosed with antigen tests - and to the deaths: 7 in the last bulletin, but which in recent days have also reached 10 and 11 in the 24 hours.
In short, if in other areas of the country the so-called "peak" of the new wave driven by Omicron has already been exceeded and every parameter begins to descend, in Sardinia infections and hospitalizations are not yet marking the hoped-for decline.
This is because - explains Stefano Del Giacco, immunologist at the Duilio Casula Polyclinic in Cagliari and lecturer at the University of Cagliari - “once again in Sardinia the long wave of Covid is recorded about a month late. With us, this variant also came after compared to other regions. Thus we are witnessing a boom in cases when elsewhere they are decreasing ”.
Only at the end of February-beginning of March, therefore, should an effective decrease in new cases and hospitalizations begin, even on the island.
Further details in the article by Michele Masala and in the other insights on L'Unione Sarda on newsstands.
(Unioneonline)