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Due to the extremely strong spread of the coronavirus epidemic, a shutdown will be ordered starting Monday in Italy, with the exception of the islands of Sardinia and Sicily, the MTI writes, citing Italian press coverage. According to the color-coded danger levels introduced since the end of October, almost all of Italy will have to be closed from March 15. The experts pointed out that a critical situation has developed in the northern part of the country, as happened in the first wave of the epidemic last March.
The short circuit means the cessation of hospitality and commerce, except for stores that sell groceries and other essentials, schools are switching back to distance education, traffic between cities and towns is prohibited and even a place of residence with a permit.
Sicily alone can remain a low-risk yellow region. On the island of Sardinia, which has been a white zone for two weeks, they can be tightened again by closing the hospitality again.
Ahead of the long-awaited government decision, regions are tightening epidemic restrictions on their own, one after another. Health authorities in Piedmont in northwestern Italy suspended hospital admissions for non-Covid-19 patients from Wednesday night. The exceptions are cancer and life-saving treatments. The move could increase the proportion of hospital beds reserved for Covid-19 patients from the current twenty percent.
In the third wave of epidemics caused by viral mutations, hospital saturation in all the country’s provinces once again exceeded the average thirty percent considered critical threshold. In the Molise region, hospital saturation reached 67 percent, in Umbria 57 percent and in Lombardy 43 percent. In the latter, the number of patients treated in intensive care units is constantly increasing, citing the situation in March last year, when the number of beds had to almost triple.
There is also pressure on the hospitals of Bologna, from which conditions “not seen in the first wave” were reported, highlighting that although last year the age of patients ranged between 64 and 74, it has now dropped from 54 to 64.
The number of patients examined daily approached 30,000 again, 373 died on Thursday and the death toll reached 101,184, and the number of active patients again reached half a million.
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