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The launch of the new anti-Covid dpcm is scheduled between tomorrow and Monday, in the middle of a long night summit at Palazzo Chigi. Among the hypotheses would be that of a curfew from 22, but without reaching a lockdown. Today I meet the regions. Starting tonight in Lombardy, pubs and restaurants close at midnight. In Campania, face-to-face classes are now allowed for kindergartens. Yesterday in Italy more than 10 thousand new infections of 150 thousand tampons and 55 deaths, compared to 83 the day before.
New Covid infections in Italy have reached 10,000 in the last 24 hours: in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health bulletin, 10,010 cases have been registered (compared to 8,804 the day before). The swabs were 150,377. The deaths were 55, up from 83 the day before.
“Once the threshold of ten thousand infections is exceeded: more restrictive measures are necessary, we appeal to the sense of responsibility of citizens.” An appeal to the government to introduce more restrictive measures and to citizens to follow the rules with a sense of responsibility. It was launched by the president of the Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli. “What is especially worrisome is the filling of intensive care, which already suffers in some regions,” explains Anelli-, that is why we must be cautious, so as not to infect the most fragile subjects who are at higher risk of complications. “
The contagion curve is growing rapidly and it points decidedly upwards, but it is not known where the peak is at this moment since it will depend on the security measures that are taken. “There is rapid growth, but not huge,” physicist Enzo Marinari told ANSA, from the Sapienza University of Rome.
The government is ready for a new squeeze. Among the hypotheses discussed would be compulsory smart work (in a percentage to be defined), the stop at events and a new grip on sport, between gyms and contact sports, as well as more staggered hours and more distance learning at school. . Among the ministers there are those who support -although Palazzo Chigi slows down- a kind of curfew, with all the premises closed from 10pm or 11pm. Nothing is decided, also because two lines in the government are facing each other. There are those, like M5 and Iv, who want to be more cautious in this phase. And there are those, like Pd and Leu, on the other hand, believe that we must act immediately, without delay, even with tougher measures “so as not to have to resort to confinement later.” Giuseppe Conte, who until the end kept the summit on stand-by due to the new tightening requested by Dario Franceschini and Roberto Speranza, remains in the idea that the measures must be “proportionate”: “This wave is no less dangerous but it must be face it with a different strategy, which no longer provides for confinement ”, he reiterates, calling for a common EU strategy to avoid“ destruction for all ”and announcing 200 or 300 million vaccines“ very soon ”.
The Regions, meanwhile, move in no particular order.. New straits arrive in Campania, Lombardy, Piedmont. The government will seek greater coordination in a meeting called in the morning by Francesco Boccia with Speranza, Commissioner Domenico Arcuri and the governors. Arcuri asks them to activate 1,600 places in intensive care for which materials have been sent. And Conte warns that “closing schools as a whole is not the best solution.” It was done by Vincenzo De Luca, who after protests from mothers, school bus drivers and students, reopens kindergartens and nurseries. The government, the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina speculates, could question that choice: “Instead of being in class, Campania students wander through the shopping malls,” she complains. The common line of the government is that schools should not be closed. Some ministers propose the hypothesis of strengthening distance lessons (it is now possible, in the autonomy of individual institutes) and staggering the schedules further, with classes also in the afternoon. But closing the classrooms completely, no. The executive, Boccia warns, has already offered and continues to offer all possible support to the Regions, but before going to school and work, answers must be given by activating all intensive care (“Where have the lung ventilators gone?”) And acting in other areas or each one “will assume responsibility for the effects.”
However, new restrictive measures are needed at the national level, to stop the rise of the curve, they invoke Franceschini and Speranza. The CTS, which had already advised staggering schedules to lighten transportation, is ready to meet to comment. The head of the Pd delegation asks Conte for a summit as soon as he returns to Rome from the Brussels European Council. The hypothesis is that it will be held at night between Friday and Saturday, for a new dpcm already on the weekend. But the prime minister is not unbalanced on the new measures, confirms the commitments of the agenda until late at night and still takes a few hours to evaluate. On what to do, in addition, his ministers do not agree. Some would like to re-apply restrictions similar to those in place in the early stages after the shutdown. The toughest would like a greater hardening of sports, even for children, and other activities considered unnecessary, as well as closing clubs and shops at 10pm, with a kind of curfew. The Five Stars, defending what Azzolina did at school and calling for “uniformity in transportation” to avoid crowds.
“Given the very serious situation of the virus circulation, we have indicated selective closures in regions with very high circulation of Sars-Cov2 to allow the realization of school and productive activities. Closures, in areas where the contagion index is greater than 1, must affect aggregation points such as clubs, gyms and non-essential commercial establishments. While smart work should become the usual way of working across the country. The crucial point is the safety of public transport and its strengthening, “said Walter. Ricciardi, Advisor to the Minister of Health for the Covid Emergency and Professor of General and Applied Hygiene at the Catholic Faculty of Medicine in Rome. “Local health authorities can no longer track infections, so the virus containment strategy does not work. This is due to two phenomena that are occurring in many regions: the lack or delay of the strengthening of prevention departments (low number of hygienists available) and the thousands of outbreaks in progress. The situation is very serious, the regions are moving towards the loss of contagion control “, explained Ricciardi, adding:”Contact tracing does not work manually, with interviews with positive viruses in your contacts, or technologically with the Immuni application “.
To date “in ten Regions the maintenance of intensive care is particularly at risk, since the maximum threshold established by the Ministry of Health is close to 30% of the places dedicated to occupied Covid patients; however, We are in a situation of alert in all regions because there is a risk, in the short term, of a saturation of Covid sites if the trend of infections is not going to change. “This is the image sketched in ANSA by national president of the Association of Anesthesiologists Italian Hospital Resuscitators – Critical Zone Emergency (Aaroi-Emac), Alessandro Vergallo. In intensive care, he warns, “the pressure is increasing and we begin to feel the fear that we may return to the dramatic situation of the first epidemic phase.”
