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Musumeci: “I do not exclude that Sicily may suffer the same fate as France or Germany”
PALERMO – “I didn’t do any gear, so I don’t have to back down. I am only endowing myself, if the Sicilian Parliament allows it, with a prerogative that already exists in the autonomous province of Bolzano ”. This was said by the president of the Sicily Region, Nello Musumeci, to “The numbers of the pandemic” on Sky TG24, speaking of the bill on the extension of the closing hours of bars and restaurants that will soon be evaluated by Ars.
The bill that will evaluate Ars
“It is – he explained – a recognized faculty in representative of the agency, in this case the President of the Region to be able to adopt, as has been the case until now, restrictive measures with respect to those indicated by the central government and, if epidemiological conditions allow it, also extensive measures. Given that each Region is different from the other in terms of infections, habits, social life, economic structure, if in Sicily the conditions were identified to anticipate recovery in a few weeks compared to the conditions of the Northern regions, I do not understand why the governor of Sicily should not adopt a reopening measure “.
‘Useless pretending not to understand’
“We know very well that we are moving towards total closure. It is useless to be a hypocrite and there is no use pretending not to understand it. We would all like to avoid this hypothesis but we all know that it seems increasingly inescapable. At this moment -he added- talking about reopening seems inevitable to me, although I never finished saying on October 23 that the closure of restaurants and some activities at 6 in the afternoon seemed really silly, especially in a region like Sicily where you go to dinner no earlier than 9:00 p.m. and this does not determine a displacement or a meeting that are the true accomplices of Covid “.
The point about intensive care
“Let’s imagine 2,500 beds for positive inpatients and about 20% of this number for intensive and sub-intensive care. Intensive therapy requires particular equipment but above all specialized personnel, which is lacking in Sicily and throughout Italy. We can make the beds in three days and we are working on it, but I would like to understand next to the intensive care place which health specialist to put. If Minister Boccia has a particular reservation, I would be happy to have it available. On the one hand we are working on intensive care, to reach 800 beds in the next few days, on the other we are working with the 128 million that Commissioner Arcuri made available to carry out the requalification of infrastructures to place the necessary tools for care intensive. work “, he added.” If my appointment as delegate commissioner – he added – had arrived in July, today we would have opened many works and some of them would have already closed. The appointment arrived on October 8, we are working 24 hours a day to make the bids and open the works. Although it is an accelerated procedure, one must be cautious, because the right to transparency can never be sacrificed ”.
‘We are in an emergency’
“I do not exclude that Sicily may suffer the same fate as France or Germany, at this time, however – Observe – we are in a state of emergency, but I would be a liar if I said that we are in the same conditions as some regions of the North. We will probably get there and we are doing everything we can to prevent it from happening, but the contagion is very rampant and we are preparing for the worst. “We have declared a kind of curfew from 11 at night to 5 in the morning, this shows that we have never, not for a moment, underestimated the seriousness of the phenomenon. But it is important to allow cinemas and theaters to function for a few weeks, they are places where the position of the citizen is already predetermined ”, concluded (ANSA).
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