and Milan is the black jersey

After the mini summer holidays, the coronavirus has returned with force to be an emergency in Milan, Lombardy and throughout the country. The numbers of the covid 19 bulletin for Friday October 23 are very worrying. Suffice it to say that the almost 5,000 cases in Lombardy are statistically equivalent to three and a half new positive patients per minute. A figure that is already impressive but is unfortunately destined to get worse if you look at the trend of recent weeks.

Therefore, in the last 24 hours in Lombardy 3.4 positive cases per minute have been discovered. For a total of 4,916. Of these, 2,399 were discovered only in the province of Milan: equivalent to 1.6 per minute. Figures that make it clear that the measures taken – the night curfew, the closure of shopping centers and shops on weekends, the cessation of sports and (perhaps) distance education – are not enough to stop the wave of the pandemic .

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Coronavirus, the closure does not seem so far

Regional health leaders announced it in some way. Massimo Galli, director of the department of infectious diseases at the Sacco hospital, said for example that “in March the battle of Milan was avoided thanks to the relative punctuality of the confinement. But now we are about to have it, because the infection is spreading. people are susceptible to infection, the fear that the infection will spread is real and what we see in hospitals attests “.

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And this point is explained very well by Andrea Gori, head of infectious diseases at the Milan Polyclinic: “In the space of three days the type of covid patient that presents in the emergency rooms of Milan has changed completely. We have observed a very rapid worsening of the severity of patients arriving at hospitals. And, among those who are hospitalized, several need significant support in terms of oxygen therapy. To understand us, they need the CPAP helmet, not just a little oxygen, because they have severe respiratory failure. “It is no coincidence that the hospital built to deal with the coronavirus was reopened during the first wave, that of the Fair.

The level of the epidemic, as explained by the metropolitan city of Ats of Milan to Mayor Beppe Sala, is such that the monitoring system and tamponade policies, although they are important to be able to care for patients who may need treatment, no longer They are tools capable of containing the spread of infections linked to the resumption of social activities.

The risk of the red zone and the calls to stay at home

They also understood it in the upper floors of Municipalities and Regions. The governor of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, for example, made it clear when talking about a possible closure: “If with the measures we are taking and that we have taken in these days, the contagion stops, not necessarily to, but to slow down, it could be probably avoid. If the surge continued, it could be that a different measure was taken. ”

“I am very concerned, it is a film that we have already seen and we must ensure that the situation does not get too bad – continued Fontana – and we must count on the collaboration of all our citizens. I think we must ask our citizens again a great effort. “

The governor still asks “the willingness to respect certain rules, to respect certain limitations of one’s freedom and one’s life and that no one likes and that it is not right for them to be applied. But in a dramatic situation, unfortunately, we must also accept rules. That is not fair. I ask it with my heart in my hand and with the awareness that our citizens gave an excellent response in the first wave. I ask for this sacrifice. “

In particular, the governor directs an appeal “to the most fragile people, the oldest to those who have pathologies, these days these people have to make some sacrifices and they should try to go out as little as possible. They should stay at home as much as possible. isolated as possible. ” possible. This is a fundamental step. ”

If all these measures are not enough, but it will be understood in a few days, the only solution will be to increase anti-contagion measures. And, as the examples of other nations going through the second wave fuss show, the only way forward is the blockade.