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On October 15 in Italy, 8,804 new cases of coronavirus infection and 83 deaths were registered in the previous twenty-four hours, for a total of 381,602 cases and 36,372 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The highest number of infections was registered in Lombardy (2,067), Campania (1,127), Piedmont (1,033) and Veneto (600). As foreseen in the last Dpcm of October 13, to try to stop the spread of the virus, some regional presidents have decided to adopt more restrictive measures applied both to the individual municipalities where outbreaks have been found, as well as to the entire regional territory.
The governor of South Tyrol, Arno Kompatscher, has signed an ordinance ordering the closure of all bars in the municipalities of Sesto Pusteria and Monguelfo, while the restaurants will only be open until 6 p.m., except those in the interior of the Hotels. The ordinance recommends limiting travel to and from municipalities to strict necessity. All kinds of events and parties were also suspended. Civil and religious ceremonies can be held, but with a maximum of 15 guests.
The president of Valle d’Aosta Renzo Testolin also signed an ordinance with which, as of midnight on October 15, he established a “red zone” in the territories of the three municipalities of Chambave, Saint-Denis and Verrayes, “considering the high number of positive subjects for Covid-19 and isolated subjects in relation to the total population of these municipalities. ”The ordinance requires“ the expulsion from the territory of the affected municipalities by all persons in any case present therein, with the obligation to stay at home “and prohibits” access to the territory of the affected municipalities. “
The most contested decision, however, was that of the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca who, given the high number of infections in the region, signed an ordinance on Thursday night that establishes that face-to-face classes in schools are suspended from 16 to October 30. primary, secondary and childhood. The provision was motivated “with the double objective of limiting the circumstances of dangerous concentrations in all areas, private and public, and with the objective of minimizing mobility that is difficult to control.”
The election of the president of Campania De Luca to close the schools was criticized by the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina, who, as soon as the news spread, defined it as “a very serious, deeply wrong and inappropriate decision.” The minister, interviewed in Zapping, On Rai Radio1, he added that “there seems to be a fury against the school, on the part of President De Luca: not only was he the last to reopen the schools, but now he is the first to close them.” Azzolina then said that the government will collectively consider whether to file an appeal against De Luca’s order.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also criticized De Luca’s ordinance. At the end of the first day of the European Council in Brussels, Conte said that “closing the school like this” according to him “is not the best solution”. The prime minister explained that, also based on the data provided by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in schools, “the contagion curve is very, very low.” On the possibility of the government challenging the Campania decision (as it did in February with the Marche decision), the prime minister said, in line with Minister Azzolina, that it will be a decision of the whole government, but recalled that based on on how the last Dpcm was structured, “individual regions can adopt more restrictive measures.”
Chancellor Luigi Di Maio wrote on his Facebook profile that “the government is intervening to avoid reaching an extreme situation” such as the “darkest months”, because “our economy cannot afford it.” Speaking of the possibility of a new blockade, Di Maio went on to write that “companies, our traders, the self-employed and the entire industrial world cannot stop again.”
Meanwhile, there has been an outbreak at an RSA in Rome where more than a third of patients, in addition to four employees of the facility, tested positive for the coronavirus. It is the «Anni Azzurri», RSA affiliated with the National Health Service, where the spread of the infection began 15 days ago and was initiated by an operator who had come into contact with a positive outside the structure. The patients currently positive to the tests are 39, in a structure that houses around a hundred. Of the 39 infected, six are hospitalized.
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