ROME – If you turn on the Italian news right now, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you’ve been back since March. Only fields of covid-units, field hospitals are being set up, pictures of tired medics and coffins are making headlines again as Italy catches up with the deadly second wave of COVID-19. On Wednesday, for the first time since May, the death toll peaked at 125 in a 24-hour period while the country was still under a draconian lockdown and was seen as a harbinger of what was to come.
Particularly troubling about the return of COVID to Italy is that the country has done everything it can to advise experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Masks have been mandatory in public places for months, social distance is strongly enforced, nightclubs have never reopened and are less than a third of the capacity in the field of sports. Children who are back in school are routinely tested and strictly social distance, and yet, the second wave seems completely unbeatable.
While rejecting another full lockdown, Italian health officials are instead urging people to limit their own activities, raising concerns that by urging people not to leave their homes, they are inadvertently promoting private parties where Spread seems the worst. For the moment. The Italian Ministry of Health released data this week showing that .30 of the new infections. Percentage of people “happens at home” while only 4.5% come from recreational activities and schools.
On Wednesday, Italy logged 15,199 new infections – nearly three times the worst day of the epidemic last March and the equivalent of 20,000,000 new cases in a single day in the US, which has yet to be reached.
And it’s just getting worse. “Outbreaks are already out of control in some metropolitan areas, such as Milan, Naples and Rome,” said Walter Ricciardi, an infectious disease specialist advising the Italian government, which has a similar position in Italy. Conference Wednesday. “Their numbers are as high as can be contained by the traditional method of tracing and testing. And previous epidemics teach us that when you can’t contain, you have to block movements.”
To some extent, the increase in cases is also linked to Italy’s aggressive testing plan, which has paved the way for faster tests in addition to government-run drive-in facilities at all airports and private clinics. Private technologies also make about લગભગ 75 for home privacy tests, which has also contributed to a large number of cases. On Wednesday, about 180,000 tests were recorded, a record for a 24-hour period.
But officials are still very concerned that despite all best efforts to end the spread, it cannot be stopped. Government experts insist that the infection rate among school children is not a driving factor, but young people who feel confident that they will not get too sick and insist on socializing. Now in big cities like Milan, Rome and Naples there is an evening curfew to try to prevent young people from gathering socially, which seems to contribute to the spread. Ricardi said most of the infections that occur in infected homes are brought on by young people.
But Italy is by no means alone in the fight against the European second wave of epidemics. France, Spain and the Czech Republic have all set broken records in new cases and introduced measures to reduce the spread. New infections have also been reported in the United Kingdom in a single day, and Ireland is completely locked out.
Germany, which avoided a large number of problems during the first European wave, recorded a shocking number of tops of 10,000 in a single day on Wednesday. Officials there have also blamed groups of young people going out or meeting privately for spreading. Dr .. Lothar Villere, told the WW Network that getting people to work is not a problem. “We don’t see a lot of outbursts in the workplace or on public transport, but they mostly come together in privacy, at parties and even at services and weddings.” “We shouldn’t do too many of these events.”
On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte assured the Italian Senate that a complete lockdown would not be repeated, which had crippled Italy’s economy and destroyed the tourism sector. While urging ordinary citizens to limit unnecessary travel, he stopped imposing any limits on movement from now on. “We can’t use the same strategy in spring to fight another wave,” he said. “Now we are in a different situation than we were in March – back then we had no means of diagnosing, now we are all thankful for the hard work and sacrifice.”
But for many, the sacrifice that helped during the first round now seems lost, as if it had been in vain.
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