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The so-called red areas, which are particularly vulnerable to epidemics, continue to ease strict restrictions after more than 37,000 new infections were examined in one day and 699 patients died in Italy, according to the Health Ministry on Friday night.
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, extended until December 3 the measures currently in force, which classify the provinces by epidemic risk. None of the provincial notes were relieved.
The red zone continued to be Lombardy, Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Calabria, Campania, Tuscany, Abruzzo and Alto Adige., which, as an autonomous community, was declared a high risk area.
The hotel and commercial sector of the affected provinces expects that the epidemic curve will allow the partial lifting of the severe restrictions as of November 27. This is the start of pre-Christmas discount shopping with Black Friday promotions. In Milan, completely closed and therefore empty, the construction of the Christmas trees in the center began on Friday night, reminding that the “loss” of the Christmas period would lead to another significant economic recession.
Ski tourism also urges to open: The operators of the 1,500 ski resorts in Italy currently closed find it inconceivable not to open this year for Christmas, or at least from the first week of January. They recalled that the sector contributes 40 million tourists a year, a turnover of 12,000 million euros and 60,000 jobs.
Health authorities oppose the reopening of the ski slopes fearing a repeat of what happened in the summer when the beaches were flooded by crowds, the beaches were flooded and this led to an increase in the epidemic curve in the fall.
In one day, 37,242 new patients were examined after just over 36,000, while the number of trials was twenty thousand fewer. The number of active infections exceeded 777 thousand. In one day, 699 patients died after the previous 653, bringing the death toll to 48,569.
It is positive that there is a decrease in the number of people admitted to intensive care units per day: The number of patients hooked up to the ventilator increased by thirty from there on Friday compared to 120 on Tuesday. There are currently 3,748 in the intensive care unit.
The reproduction rate fell below a value in four ranges of twenty. The Institute of Public Health (Iss) estimates that the epidemic situation is improving, but the restrictions should not be abandoned yet.
In the northern province of Alto Adige, that is Massive coronavirus testing began in South Tyrol on Friday. In the region, which has a population of nearly half a million, screening will be carried out at two hundred test stations Sunday night, with the assistance of 11,000 healthcare workers and pharmacists. On the first day of the tests, which lasted from eight in the morning to six in the morning, about 83,000 people had already participated, and according to incomplete results, 1,256 positive individuals have so far been screened, waiting for ten days of home quarantine.
Italy was rocked by the press reports left by patients who died in Covid wards. They wrote short lines on the sticky paper notes and newspapers they had, saying goodbye to their relatives., whom they could not meet in his last hours. An elderly patient wrote a farewell page in a crossword newspaper apologizing to her children for not having the strength to fight the disease.
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