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The people of Naples bake in the sun on their quarantined terraces.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Reuters
For the first time since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, the city of Naples has registered zero new infections. For the fourth consecutive day, no victims have been recorded. And all this, in the context of the rest of Italy, where nightly summaries of the number of infected and dead during the day still resemble military bulletins.
Although the epidemic is declining throughout Botusha, Naples, one in a million, is an example of how a city of its size and population density has managed to protect itself from the coronavirus explosion.
Many predicted that southern Italy, and especially cities like Naples, where large families occupy small houses in busy neighborhoods, would capitulate to the virus. The infection was expected to overwhelm the population and because its health system, much poorer and lagging behind that of the rich North, was supposed to collapse under the weight of the epidemic.
However, this did not happen, even the contrary. It turned out that the Neapolitan Cotugno hospital did not register a single infected person on medical staff, unlike all the other hospitals in Italy that treat COVID-19. In Cotugno, doctors, nurses and paramedics perform protection and disinfection rituals every day. Doctors also have masks that look like gas masks, and patients are well isolated from each other. The hospital was successful thanks to its extensive experience in the fight against HIV, SARS and Ebola. Almost 200 coronavirus patients are treated daily in the hospital. In just one month, he hired 25 new doctors and 150 nurses to deal with the crisis.
So far, 52 victims have been registered in the city of Naples and just over 800 have been infected. In the Campania region, the total number of infected people has been just over 4,000 since the beginning of the year.
Campaign governor Vincenzo de Luca announced that if the restrictive measures continue to be followed, the region will emerge from an emergency in mid-May. “Some want to hurry up with a return to previous activity, but we have to show a high sense of responsibility. If the highly polluted areas do so, the Campaign will close their borders and prohibit residents from entering those areas.” De Luca added that the Campaign has shown that it is a model of administrative efficiency and, if it continues, it will become the first region in Italy to exit the tunnel.
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