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Despite members of the Italian government undergoing tests every ten days, Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese also tested positive for the coronavirus, which was announced at the government meeting on Monday (December 7), it reported. the MTI. This was announced during the government meeting, so the deliberations were immediately suspended, and then-Chancellor Luigi Di Maio, closest to the Minister of the Interior, and Alfonso Bonafede, head of the Ministry of Justice, were also quarantined for ten days. Additionally, Representative Mara Carfagna was hospitalized with pneumonia. The suspended government meeting to decide on the use of the Economic Recovery Fund has been postponed to Tuesday (December 8).
As the Index has previously reported, the problems caused by the coronavirus epidemic are very serious in Italy: in terms of deaths, infections and economic problems. In the last 24 hours, 528 patients have died after the previous 564, and although the number of deaths has been decreasing day by day since December 3, their number already reaches 60,606.
Nearly forty percent of the dead have died in the northern province of Lombardy since late February, with an average age of eighty-seven percent having also been treated for other chronic diseases. According to Professor Massimo Gallo, virologist at the Sacco Hospital in Milan
The lives of at least 20,000 elderly people could have been saved if the epidemic measures had not been lifted during the summer months.
There are many discrepancies in the data, the number of active infections has dropped to 748,000 and the number of hospital admissions is gradually decreasing, and no province is in the most vulnerable red category, but Walter Ricciardi, a health expert who advises the government. Roman, despite this, Italy is experiencing the peak of the second wave of epidemics and its severity is only expected in December and January.
The number of active infections still exceeds 755,000.
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