New Covid positives more than doubled in a week, from 202 between August 10 and 16 to 505 between 17 and 23. Although fortunately there are no deaths and there are fewer serious cases in hospitals.
Even on the island, as in the rest of Italy, Covid returns to peep out with a summer blow that leaves you at home with flu, headache and sore throat.
«We are in phase 0 and currently the increase in the number of positives is linked to several factors - explains Fernando Coghe, director of the Aou of Cagliari and director of the central laboratory - Definitely habits: there is no longer any distancing and they are no longer used the means of individual protection. We still enjoy the benefit of vaccinations and the return of Covid is due to the so-called recombination variants. Of course, immunization, for those who have been vaccinated or for those who have caught Covid, is destined to decrease and a vaccine booster will have to be made for the new variants ».
Just today the Survey period ends, the active surveillance by the Aou laboratories of Cagliari and Sassari, which are sequencing the genomic targets to understand which variant is most present in the region.
“Then all the data collected with the Ngs methodology will be sent to the Higher Institute of Health,” Coghe continues: 94 Covid beds have been identified throughout Sardinia in the various wards scattered among the island's hospitals.
(Unioneonline/D)