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A new round of restrictions. Which are valid for all of Italy. Giuseppe Conte spent the whole day closed in his study at Palazzo Chigi, immersed in a whirlwind of phone calls with ministers, data analysis, hypothesis of interventions: and at the same time following a continuous and dramatic flow of updates, from the attractiveness of one hundred scientists for immediate intervention, the announcement of the closure of Campania by Vincenzo De Luca to the dissemination of the weekly report of the National Institute of Health, which considers “necessary measures that favor a drastic reduction of physical interactions between people and that can lighten pressure on health services “. And the counterattack that followed.
The Prime Minister does not intend to give in to the pressure of those who ask to close everything immediately, nor of those who, as part of his government presided over by Italy alive and by the 5 Star Movement, argues that one more closure will be a severe blow to the economy and that for now we should not go any further. But he also developed the conviction that the growth of positives is at alert levels, and that the measures taken in the last dpcm alone are not enough. Hence the decision, on which he also discussed in the afternoon with the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri, new restrictions, a new text with more restrictions, which will have as a priority the protection of the productive world and the school. The measures are still under study, but we are thinking about a national curfew, closing of swimming pools and gyms, a strict limit of participants in ceremonies and a stop of receptions, a revision of the maximum transport capacity. What steps to take and how to modulate them is a discussion of these hours. The most rigorous wing of the government, for example, advocates a limitation of mobility from 8:00 p.m., in any case no later than 10 p.m. and for a kind of soft lockdown during the weekend, even if there is those who would like to limit themselves to the formulation already adopted. of some regions, which provides for the prohibition of mobility from midnight to 5 in the morning. Even anticipating all this, one must read the words of Roberto Gualtieri, who guaranteed that “the government will continue to support the economy even with new measures for all those on whose shoulders the burden falls.”
“The contagions do not stop them with the current measures,” a government source who works on the dossier extends his arms, sighing. This explains how at an altitude of 30,000 positives per day, exhaustive monitoring is almost impossible, causing a serious problem for intensive care, which could soon reach saturation level. “On average each positive leads to rebuilding a chain of 15 close contacts – explains a government source – With 10,000 positives there are 150,000 people, it can be difficult to deal with, with 30,000 arrivals close to half a million and there is no more to do” Also for this reason, the Ministry of Health is very confident that the agreement will be closed with family doctors, who will be able to equip themselves with fast tampons, lightening the load on drive-ins and hospital facilities.
The ISS weekly report explains that the epidemic in our country has reached the third scenario of the four foreseen as a severity index, but there would be nine Regions that are at the limit of the fourth alert threshold, which, of not showing signs of degradation within three weeks would require the adoption of “very aggressive containment measures.” On the other hand, the data show that in 15 of the 20 Regions the rate of positive swabs performed has far exceeded 5%, the theoretical bar set by the World Health Organization to define an out-of-control epidemic. The recommendation of the Higher Institute of Health is to proceed with “restrictions on non-essential activities and restrictions on mobility”, and also based on this the government has embarked on the path of a new dpcm. Today the number of hospitalizations in intensive care has exceeded that of March 11, 1,049 compared to 1,028 seven months ago, and the increase compared to a week ago, when they were “only” 690, is especially worrying.
Meanwhile, in these hours Roberto Speranza and Francesco Boccia, now a positive but asymptomatic result, continue to work with individual autonomies on the measures to be taken, at this point considered useful but not decisive, although they have made an important contribution from the point of view of view. the perception of the seriousness of the situation. In a few hours, at most a few days, they will be overtaken by a new dpcm.
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