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In recent weeks, Campania has become the Italian region where the most coronavirus infections are registered, not only in relation to the population but also in absolute numbers. The president of the region Vincenzo De Luca has taken several measures in recent days that have made Campania the region with the most stringent restrictions, also because data on the number of tampons and the percentage of those that are positive suggest that the scope actual infection can be significantly higher, higher than normal.
Infections in Campania began to soar in August, as in the rest of Italy, but since mid-September they have increased at a faster rate than in the rest of Italy. In recent days, Lazio have also recorded similar figures, but the question of testing makes the situation in Campania a bit more worrying. Since the beginning of the epidemic, some 640 thousand tests have been carried out, one for every nine inhabitants, while for example Lazio, which has had a similar epidemic evolution, has carried out 950 thousand, one in six. Among the Italian regions, Campania has performed the least tests in relation to the population after Sicily, Puglia and Calabria (slightly behind).
The testing system in Campania appears to have some problems even when we consider the percentage of swabs that are positive out of the total: a partial indicator that, however, can give an idea of how much the spread of the infection is under control. If it is too high, and therefore many of the tests performed are positive, the proportion of infected people who escape controls is likely to be significant. So it’s more complicated than that, because the tests also need to be organized well and done for the right categories of people – and many swabs are not necessarily said to be a positive in themselves. But in Campania, recently, the rate of positive swabs in the total was clearly the highest in Italy, even reaching 6 percent. When it exceeds 10 percent, there begins to be a problem: that is what happened in Spain in mid-September, with the surveillance systems in crisis.
For days, De Luca has taken independent initiatives to try to regain control of the situation. For a couple of weeks, masks have been mandatory everywhere, even outdoors, and for a few days the bars have had to close between 11pm and 6am (from 12pm on Fridays and Saturdays), and from again from 11pm the restaurants can accept the latter. customers.
De Luca said that they are necessary measures, “otherwise we will hurt ourselves.” But announcing the measures, he complained that his region received about 60 percent fewer health supplies than Lombardy and Veneto. It is true that in the months of greatest emergency the government helped the northern regions the most, said De Luca, but this asymmetry also remained in the summer, when the contagion situation became increasingly homogeneous.
De Luca cited masks, for example, arguing that 123 million were distributed in Lombardy, 120 million in Veneto, and only 28 million in Campania. According to De Luca, the same happened with swabs and lung ventilators, reaching 319 units in Campania compared to 700 in Lombardy and 610 in Veneto. He said he asked emergency commissioner extraordinary Domenico Arcuri for a million rapid tests for schools, which are not otherwise on the market, and 294 lung ventilators, among other things.
Currently in Campania the positive cases hospitalized are more than in any other Italian region in intensive care units, where they are 47, while those of the other departments are 488, only behind Lazio (which has 774). According to De Luca there is no emergency, because there are 555 places in intensive care and there are still more than 90 available. But Maurizio Di Mauro, director of the Hospital of the Hills of Naples, said a few days ago that “hospitals are almost at their maximum possibility of receiving patients with COVID. The demand for hospitalization is becoming quite worrying even though we can still intervene in time “, adding that the Domenico Cotugno hospital” is full and we have converted it almost entirely “.
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