Coronavirus: there is an Italian city where talking on the street is prohibited

The number of people diagnosed in one day increased by nearly 1,500, from 7,332 on Wednesday and nearly 3,000 after the 5,901 tested on Tuesday. The number of daily virus tests has also increased significantly in the last month, reaching 163,000 on Thursday.

The 8,804 patients examined in twenty-four hours is the highest data of this type since the outbreak of the epidemic began in Italy at the end of February.

The hospital currently serves more than 5,400 patients, 588 in intensive care. The number of the latter increased by almost fifty in one day.

The majority of the new patients, more than 2,000, were examined in Lombardy, making the northern province the number one focal point of the epidemic again.

The number of infected people examined in one day exceeded one thousand in the Piedmont and Campania regions.

In one day 83 patients died, compared to 43 in the past.

The restrictions announced Monday night and in effect for the next thirty days are already proving insufficient. Additional adjustments have occurred in several cities:

Five districts in the center of Genoa have been declared red zones, where street conversation between the two people is also prohibited, even with a face mask.

Any crowding in public and private homes is prohibited, and stores close between nine at night and eight in the morning, with the exception of the vending machines in pharmacies and tobacconists. In addition, a curfew was imposed in Arzano, near Naples, for the next ten days, where business and education were also closed due to an exaggerated epidemic curve.

Lombardy Provincial President Attilio Fontana said the region is being tested the most, which explains the growing data, but that we are “keeping the situation under constant review.” He stressed that new restrictions will be introduced if necessary, but the province will not close again as in spring.

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