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In Italy, 24,991 new patients were examined in one day, according to data from the Health Ministry on Wednesday night, a number that could double in a week without further strict restrictions, based on the current rate of rise in the epidemic curve, writes MTI .
The Public Health Office (Iss) summed up the epidemic in Italy as “the virus is already ubiquitous.” Iss experts were primarily concerned that there were more and more people over the age of seventy among the positives tested.
Twenty days ago, on October 8, just over 4,500 people were registered in one day. Their number is now approaching twenty-five thousand, while two hundred and five patients have died, bringing the death toll to almost forty thousand. Nearly two hundred thousand virus tests were performed in one day.
The number of active infections has exceeded 276,000 and the hospital has about fifteen thousand patients with Covid-19 in more than 1,500 intensive care units.
Health statistics show that if the epidemic continues to spread at the current rate, the daily number of cases could double in just one week and Italy will catch up with France.
The infection rate is highest in Lombardy, which has been a focal point since spring, where the proportion of virus tests and infections detected has exceeded eighteen percent. In Lombardy, more than seven thousand five hundred people were registered in one day, two thousand seven hundred in Milan and its region. In second place is Piedmont with more than two thousand eight hundred newspapers, and third in the province of Campania with more than two thousand four hundred newspapers.
Health care urges immediate austerity, and provincial leaders fear a shock to the local economy. According to the daily Corriere della Sera, the government led by Giuseppe Conte is following a tactic to toughen up and ease based on the epidemic figures. The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, has announced that he will decide on the possible closure of the city in the next two weeks: “In Lombardy there were more than fifteen hundred fans in the spring, now there are two hundred and seventy-one.”
Carlo Bonomi, president of Confindustria, which brings together industrialists, said Italians are willing to make sacrifices, “as long as we know where the country is going, the government must set a clear direction.”
Maurizio Viecca, professor of cardiology at Milan’s Sacco Hospital, spoke louder, urging the Roman government to act immediately, stating that Italy’s hospitals were on the brink of “collapse.” “There are no more places, patients will die at home or in ambulances,” he declared.
Michel Emiliano, president of the southern province of Puglia, has announced that he will close schools restoring online education. “In Germany and France, schools remained open, but with the reopening of schools in late September, the spread of the epidemic intensified,” he said. Michele Emiliano said the number of patients is increasing at such a rate that if movement within the region is not limited to a minimum, more than 2,000 patients may need a ventilator by the end of November. They have fewer than six hundred intensive care units in Puglia, and nearly four hundred are already occupied with more than just Covid-19 patients.
According to the news of the planned closures in France and Germany, the Italians also began to “prepare.” The pre-order wave has started and there is hardly any place to find hair and beauty salons. The streets filled with corridors after the gyms closed.
The Ministry of the Interior has also released, for the first time, data on quarantined migrants, showing that more than 1,600 of the more than 15,000 people who have arrived since July have tested positive, with more than 1,000 patients tested on ships of quarantine.
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