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The contagion is out of control, the squeeze is inevitable. In Lombardy, a curfew takes effect. The second wave of COVID-19 is putting pressure on hospitals, for which reason the Region is implementing emergency measures: stop all activities and travel – except in exceptional cases such as health, work and reasons of proven need – throughout the territory from 11:00 p.m. at 5:00 am from next Thursday, October 22. This is the proposal unanimously adopted by the mayors of all capital municipalities, by the president of Anci Mauro Guerra, by the leaders of the majority and opposition groups, and by Governor Attilio Fontana. A bipartisan action, driven by the dramatic data from the Lombard Technical Scientific Committee, which will be delivered to the government but is in fact already accepted. «I agree with the hypothesis of more restrictive measures in Lombardy. I heard from President Fontana and Mayor Sala and we will work together in this regard in the next few hours ”, says the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza.
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THE HOSPITAL RE-OPENS AT THE FAIR
Although delayed by at least a month, considering that today’s infections are the result of weeks of maskless snacks and crowded public transport at rush hour, Pirellone launches more stringent containment measures than the national ones of the new Dpcm. . In addition to securing the territory from eleven o’clock at night, “all parties shared the opportunity to close, Saturday and Sunday, the medium and large-scale retail trade, except for food and basic needs.” Supermarkets will stay open, shopping centers will go down. The risk of a fatal error such as the lack of creation of the red zone in the lower Val Seriana has forced us to correct the course in light of the data processed by the Indicating Commission: as of October 31, there could be some 600 hospitalized in intensive care compared to 113 today. 4,000 in non-intensive care compared to 1,136 today. In March, in the worst phase of the virus attack, there were 1,300 patients in intensive care, and as of October 11 the bed occupancy rate was 5.6%. “It is time to be disciplined, because in these two weeks we are playing everything. It is true that the health system has been strengthened, but there is a lack of doctors and health professionals to hire. Swabs and tracing are not enough, individual behaviors are also needed, ”warns Stefano Magnone, a surgeon at the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo.
Since last week, the Lombardy Region has asked the central hospitals to prepare the beds and slow down the ordinary activity, for the Health Protection Agency (the former ASL) the contagion index Rt is 2, it means that a person infected infects two on average. A number that shows how the containment measures adopted so far – the obligation to wear masks even outdoors, the distance, the prohibition of overcrowding – have proven ineffective because they are too light or not respected. “The objective of the curfew in Lombardy is to try to hit one of the causes of contagion that has become contagious again and that resides in social gatherings, parties, public meetings, in squares, things that cannot be controlled because We do not have a sufficient number of agents and police who can intervene, ”says Governor Fontana.
The exponential growth of those infected and the large number of non-Covid patients who come to the emergency room for other diseases are putting the health system in crisis. In the event that 150 hospitalizations due to Covid in intensive care are exceeded, phase two of the hospital plan is ready to begin in the coming days, with the activation of intensive care at the Milan and Bergamo Fairs. Time is running out, in these hours we are working on recruiting staff.
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