Coronavirus, Arcuri: “Contagion numbers are still manageable, but they will grow. We are equipped for a possible second wave.”

“We still have numbers within the limits of normal handling, but we must prepare for the possibility of them growing“. While the government gives the green light to the new Covid decree that imposes mandatory mask even outdoors, the special emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri he relies on the numbers to try to reassure citizens, and emphasizes that for now the situation is under control. “Yesterday we were the 18th country by number of infected and on March 21 we were The second. France registered 34 thousand new infections, Spain 23,000, Great Britain 11,000 and Italy 2,677, that is, 15 times less than in France ”. However, if the spread of the coronavirus in our country were to run again, Arcuri is confident: “We are equipped to contain the force of a possible second pandemic wave. For now – explained during the 77th Fimmg conference a Villasimius – we stabilize 7 thousand intensive care places and 15 thousand intensive divers, and we have already started a plan to strengthen Covid hospital networks which will bring another 3,500 permanent places in intensive and 4,500 in subintensive ”. At the beginning of the epidemic, however, “we had 5,179 places in intensive care and 6,000 in infectious and pneumological diseases.”

The emergency commissioner then turned to the other hot topic of recent weeks: the school. “We should be proud as Italians: at the beginning of the pandemic we were fighting to distribute essential masks in the most fragile places. Today we distribute 11 million of them in 18 thousand schools and we all produce them. This is a great operation industrial reconversion“. Regarding the delivery of single-seater benchesinstead, it guarantees that “by October” the distribution will be completed.

Before concluding his speech at the conference, Arcuri dedicated a thought to the doctors present, recalling that “during the epidemic the territory medicine she has been under stress and has lost many lives with often heroic behavior ”. The case of those who do not respect the rules is different because the virus has been less devastating in their territory. “It is not acceptable that the propensity to face the virus may depend on the place where you reside“In the world, he added,” currently there are 35.5 million infected and more 1 million deaths and the more fragile people they paid the highest price, as the loneliest and most disadvantaged. The virus – he said – was a level, but unfortunately not for all ”. The pandemic, he concluded, “has explained to us that we are all vulnerable and that we are all connected, in short, it reminded us how much we are a community. Italians have often lost the sense of community in the last decades. The first lesson that this tragedy has brought us is to make us remember ”.

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