Covid-19 weekly monitoring, report of September 7-13
(WorldNews Italy)

Key Points: An analysis of the data for the period 7-13 September 2020 is provided below. Due to the time between exposure to the pathogen and the development of symptoms, and between these and the diagnosis and subsequent notification, many of the cases reported this week are likely to have contracted the infection between the end of August and the beginning of September. Some of the cases identified by screening, however, may have contracted the infection in earlier periods. An increase in new cases reported in Italy for the seventh consecutive week is confirmed, with a cumulative incidence (ISS flow data) in the last 14 days (period 31/8-13/9) of 29.63 per 100 000 inhabitants. Most cases...