The now usual weekly monitoring of the control room complies with the predictions: based on the latest data, all the Regions are confirmed or pass into the yellow zone, with the exception of the Val d'Aosta alone which remains the orange zone. From Monday 17 May, therefore, Sardinia and Sicily, which were orange last week, also go yellow, i.e. the minimum level of restrictions. No region is in the red zone.
After a three-week increase, the Rt index, whose use is now believed to be obsolete, is back on a slight decline, and it may soon no longer be binding. In the last week of monitoring, the figure stood at 0,86, against 0,89 last week. The critical threshold is 1. The incidence of contagion at a national level is also decreasing, back below 100 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants for the first time since last October: now there are 96 for every 100.000 inhabitants, against 128 a week ago; however, the ideal threshold of 50 per 100.000 remains far away.
According to today's report no Region is classified as high risk, even if four Regions have a moderate risk classification and are Calabria, Lombardy, Tuscany and Umbria. The number of Regions and autonomous Provinces that have an employment rate in intensive care and/or medical areas above the critical threshold also decreases: these are 3 Regions (Lombardy and Tuscany are above the limit threshold of 30% for intensive care while the Calabria is above the threshold limit of 40% for medical area departments) against 5 the previous week. The national intensive employment rate is below the critical threshold (23%).
In the meantime, it is proceeding at full speed vaccination campaign: from 2 June Lombardy opens reservations for the youngest, from 16 to 29 years. Guido Bertolaso announced it, specifying that it starts from 20 May with 40-49 year olds, followed by 27 May with 30-39 year olds and from 2 June with 16-29 year olds. Veneto opens today to forty-year-olds.
