2,548 cases of covid in one day, 825 schools involved. Conte calls for a health emergency on January 31. No lock

Covid 19 infections in Italy are on the rise. There are 2,548 new cases in the last 24 hours. There are no official school sources at this time. The Ministry has started a data collection, the results of which will be available in the coming weeks. The data we have from the schools comes from a private initiative, from two university students. According to the data collected, 117 schools have already closed and 825 those in which at least one case of coronavirus has occurred at this start of the school year in Italy.

“We will go to Parliament to ask for the extension of the state of emergency until January 31 ”. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced. “We must resist with a knife between our teeth in these difficult 7-8 months that await us “, said the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in favor of the line of” maximum prudence.“

Fabrizio Pregliasco had already raised the alarm about the numbers today “They are probably already linked to the effect of the opening of schools, although we will have more reliable data on this in the next two weeks. Now there is mainly the spread in the family, between people who know each other, and the role of asymptomatic people in the infection is evident, since at this point the vast majority of symptomatic people are able to block them before they can do it. too much damage. “Although he assured” I don’t think we will return to a total closure like that of March.

At the moment, the only source of contagion data in the school is the platform of the two Italian university students Vittorio Nicoletta and Lorenzo Ruffino who today spoke about Orizzonte Scuola explaining their work.

According to the data collected by the two university students, 3 out of 4 cases in schools are students, 76.4% of the cases, 11.3% of the teachers. Most of the schools have not been closed, but it has been preferred to isolate the classes. The region with the highest number of cases is Lombardy, with 214 schools affected. Secondary schools are those in which the contagion has been most felt, they are still primary, infant and middle school.