Milan and Lombardy coronavirus bulletin Saturday, October 3

Another day of battle due to coronavirus is Saturday October 3 for Milan and all Lombardy. According to the bulletin released by the region at 4:50 p.m., the new positives in the last 24 hours are 393 of the 18,860 swabs made. Therefore, the proportion is 2%. Among the newly infected, “64 are weakly positive” and 4 were discovered after serological testing. On Friday, the positives were 307 out of 19,842, with a ratio of 1.5%.

Discharged and cured patients increased by 392 and those hospitalized in ordinary wards, which now receive 293 people, decreased by 9 patients. On the other hand, the number of admissions to intensive care increases: +3 in one day and 42 beds occupied at the moment. Unfortunately, deaths are also growing: 5 deaths in the last 24 hours, with a tragic number of 19,969 since the start of the epidemic.

Among the new positives, 160 were discovered between Milan and the province: among them 101 only under the Madonnina. In Monza and Brianza, the second province in absolute terms for new infections, there are 48.

Thus, the data continues to induce caution and keep our guard up because the aftermath of the “atomic bomb”, as regional leaders have repeatedly defined it, have not yet passed.

The vaccine controversy

Just on Saturday the umpteenth controversy broke out between the Lombardy region and the municipality of Milan. Reason for the fight for influenza vaccines, more necessary than ever in the midst of the covid emergency. After discussions about the delays and the alleged lack of doses – always denied by the Lombard welfare councilor Giulio Gallera – on Saturday morning the bomb was dropped by Anna Scavuzzo, mayor of Milan.

“The Lombardy Region does not give vaccines to the Municipality of Milan”, his j’accuse appears in a long and hard post on Facebook. “A vault of the Lombardy Region that admits that it cannot cope with a mass vaccination of the population because it does not have enough doses of the vaccine. And this after weeks of meetings, in-depth studies, draft agreements and requests for availability who have seen the Milan City Council actively and effectively involved in proposing flu vaccination to the largest possible number of Milanese, also involving all its workers ”, explained the deputy mayor.

Gallera immediately responded: “It is really sad that the deputy mayor of Milan is tilting her institutional position to an unjustified and instrumental political controversy. The Lombardy Region will cover for free, like all other Regions, the target groups of the population established with the flu vaccine. ” of the Ministry of Health ”, answered the commissioner.