Locked up in Milan, Sala wrote to Speranza: “Idea from Ricciardi or from the Ministry?” / VIDEO

Milan, October 28, 2020 – The Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, and the one from Naples, Luigi de Magistris, wrote a letter to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, ask clarifications on the claims of the ministry’s consultant, Walter Ricciardi, who spoke of a “necessary” confinement in both cities. “We wrote to the minister,” Sala explains in a video on social networks, “to ask him if that is a ‘your advisor’s opinion or is it a ministry opinion and, if it was an opinion of the ministry, if it is based on data and information that the ministry has and we don’t.

“The issue of the confinement – Sala continues – has strongly returned to the center of the discussion and I, from what I observe today, I think today’s lockdown is a bad choice. It is my responsibility and I think with my head and heart, I look at the data: today we have less than 300 ICUs and we have had 1,700 (during the first wave, ed). I’m growing, okay, but we’re already making some sacrifices and let’s see what happens.

Today’s topic, according to Sala, is “keep the elderly at home”, not the confinement. “It is brutal, but 90% of the deaths are older than 70 years. the mayor says again – There is a problem of creating shelters for asymptomatic and quarantine patients: we are working with Ats and the Region on this ”.