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Coronavirus infections in Italy decrease slightly: In the last 24 hours, according to data from the Civil Protection website, 1,501 new cases have been registered, while yesterday 1,616 new cases were registered. The total number of infected people, including victims and those cured, is 286,297. The number of victims decreased today, 6 compared to 10 yesterday, for a total of 35,603 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Those healed and discharged add up to 213,191, 759 more than yesterday. More than 92 thousand swabs made.
Intensive care patients increased from 7 to 182. There are now 1,951 hospitalized patients (+102 compared to yesterday), 35,370 people (+627) are in home isolation. The positives currently increase by 736 and are now 37,503. No region has zero new cases, Lombardy leads with 269 positives found, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
According to an estimate contained in the documents attached to the minutes of the Scientific Technical Committee that had already analyzed the different scenarios at the end of April with a view to the start of phase 2, at the beginning of May, With the reopening of schools, the spread of Covid 19 could increase by about 0.4.
The estimates are contained in one of the documents prepared by Inail on the data of the Higher Institute of Health and the Bruno Kessler Foundation and reported in the minutes of April 22: a detailed report in which all the possible effects produced on the spread of the virus. since the reopening in the different closed sectors after the closure, at the end of which the technicians advised to adopt “a progressive approach in the reopening measures”, reiterating in any case the need to use masks in all public places, social distancing and prohibition of collecting.
One of the tables in the document indicates the effect that the reopening has on the Rt index: without any closure, the Rt is at 2.25 (average between 2.06 and 2.44); with only the closure of schools, the index falls to 1.86 (average between 1.66 and 1.97), therefore, 0.39 less. If smart work is also added to school closings, the index falls further to 1.69 (average between 1.54 and 1.83), 0.56 less.
in the meantime the president of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, doubts about the reopening of the schools. “Not today. I don’t know on September 24: we don’t know how many desks have come to date, or how many teachers there are.” “We discussed – recalls De Luca – two guidelines of the national government, which in our opinion are wrong: to make serological tests for school personnel optional and, here in Campania, they are mandatory. And the measurement of body temperature: we decided, although under the competence of the Region, to give three thousand euros to the principals for the purchase of thermocans to measure the temperature inside the schools. That is why we are assuming the delays of the Ministry of Education ”. And again: “They don’t know how many desks have arrived to date, we don’t know how many teachers there are. We will fight to prevent teachers who are already part of the staff from being sent 500 kilometers away and we intend to activate complementary service contracts with companies private “. which was already being used for school trips, to increase means and guarantee the transportation and safety of the students at the beginning of the new school year ”.
