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ROME. With the contagion curve growing, the risk that the worst case scenario will become reality pushes the government to tighten up. The Council of Ministers launches the extension of the state of emergency until January 31, 2021, introduces from today the obligation to always carry the mask with you and take it everywhere, indoors and outdoors, unless you are alone or with living together or in your own home, or in bars and restaurants during consumption. However, the rules at school do not change, explains Minister Lucía Azzolina: “We have already established guidelines. If a student is sitting a meter away, he can lower it, if he wants to keep it he can do it, in dynamic situations he has to keep it. In the workplace, current protocols are confirmed.
After almost six months, on the day in which there are 31 deaths, Covid cases again break the threshold of three thousand in 24 hours, +3,678, a peak that has not been registered since April 16, in total confinement, and that brings up. the number of infected in 333,940. Of course, the new positives are identified thanks to 125,314 swabs, the record since the beginning of the emergency, but the increase of more than a thousand cases in a single day indicates that the slope that could slide the country into a new nightmare could be close. .
To underline that the hour is serious, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks in front of Palazzo Chigi: “There is an increase in infections. The masks from now on you must take them with you and carry them in any case unless you are in a situation of continuous isolation. We must be more rigorous – he emphasizes – because we want to avoid in every way more restrictive measures for productive and social activities. It is not only the increase in infections that worries the government, but also the certainty that a new pandemic wave would sink the economy. Meanwhile, the decree extends the deadlines for submitting requests for ordinary layoffs, ordinary allowances and dispensations related to the emergency until October 31.
“We work day and night to avoid a new national blockade”, declares the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, who in the afternoon signs the ordinance on compulsory tests for those arriving from Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and the Czech Republic. “Every day we evaluate the frame.” epidemiological -explains- but the results that will occur in two, three or four weeks are not written in the sky. Nobody is sure what is going to happen, it depends a lot on the behavior of the people. The use of the mask, the spacing, the hygiene of the hands. A “recommendation” that also concerns those who are at home with friends or family, although, as Conte says, “the state cannot enter private homes.”
No region is spared, and 11 show triple-digit infections. Campania leads with 544 cases, followed by Lombardy with 520. Infections are also increasing in Veneto (375), Lazio (357) and Tuscany (300). Piedmont is also positive above 200 with 287 and Sicily with 213. “Right now there are about 300 of our fellow citizens.ini in intensive care, so the numbers are still within the limits of normal management, but we must prepare for the fact that, unfortunately, they are going to grow ”, stresses emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri. “For now,” he explains, “we have stabilized 7,000 intensive care and 15,000 sub-intensive care places, and we have already launched a plan to strengthen Covid’s hospital networks that will bring another 3,500 stable places in intensive care and 4,500 in sub-intensive care.” In a context of growing tension, the controversy that arises between the Technical-Scientific Committee and the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, does not help. In “Di Tuesday”, in La7, he asks the Cts for “answers and not just bulletins”, statements defined as “reckless and superficial” that irritate the experts. The Cts “is not angry, Sileri is a member of the government and has our respect”, says Alberto Villani, while Conte, when asked, specifies: “Sileri explained to me that there was no controversy” but “in a couple of profiles – he adds however – a reflection is taking place “.
