According to the scientific institution Gimbe, over the past week in Italy cases coronavirus showed an increase of 18.7%. After five weeks of continuous decline, this trend has reversed in the last seven days, with a total of 178,000 registered. outbreaks.

Gimbe Foundation President Nino Cartabelota explained that this development was due to the fact that diagnostic tests were de facto limited on August 15, as well as the increased circulation of the virus since August 17. up to 23.

At the same time, the Gimbe Foundation emphasizes that there is a big delay regarding the fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine: only 2,180,000 doses have been administered so far. In fact, 14.3 million Italians who belong to vulnerable categories or are over sixty did not receive their fourth dose.

In the last 24 hours, finally, 3% of intensive care beds are patients with Covid-19, and the relative percentage in terms of hospital wards is 10%.

^{Source: APE-MEB}