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Today there are 6,804 positives for coronavirus in Lombardy, where 117 people have died in the last 24 hours. During the day, 32,337 swabs were done, bringing the swab / positive ratio to 21 percent. With the 40 new hospitalized in intensive care, a total of 475 beds is reached, that is 45% of occupied places on a ceiling of 30% set by the Ministry of Health. Threshold beyond which there is a risk that the system cannot guarantee treatment, even for critically ill patients who do not have Covid. So yesterday there were also 334 new hospitalizations in the other wards, for a total of 4,740. “If you continue like this, the alarm of the president of the Milan Medical Association, Roberto Carlo Rossi, in a week or so, you literally don’t know where to put people.”
As for the Milanese, there are 2,829 new cases, of which 999 in the city of Milan. Thus, despite the resistance, the agreement signed with the doctors and nurses of the Fair’s hospitals, the calls to accelerate the opening of new Covid beds, Lombardy, which two days ago was positioned in Band 3, with an Rt Index of 1.7, and that he tried by all means to avoid the confinement of yesterday, after an endless confrontation with the government, it will almost certainly be placed in the “red zone” or in the one of maximum severity, “going through” a new stop at least until December 3.
Words synonymous with economic disaster: “The new additional restrictions will have a devastating impact on entire sectors of the tertiary sector, in commerce, in restaurants, in tourist activities in Lombardy that produce more than 20 percent of the national GDP – warns Confcommercio Lombardia – The The closures could affect almost 60,000 retail businesses, in addition to the activities already affected by the restrictions, more than 55,000 catering, accommodation and service companies. “We are talking about a true scenario of economic disaster.” With an estimated economic loss of 1,700 million euros only for the Milan area, equivalent to 9 percent of the annual turnover, says Marco Barbieri, general secretary of Confcommercio Milano. “Lombardy, which is the Italian region with the largest number of places for the consumption of food and drinks outside the home (more than 51 thousand) – Coldiretti stresses – pays the highest price for restrictive measures ivas ”.
Precisely for this reason, during the confrontation with the Government that lasted for more than 4 hours, the regions insisted on “homogeneous measures throughout the national territory”, a request that Governor Fontana made urgently in the previous days, “compensation contextual to the decree for the closures “. parental leave for public and private employees and economic conciliation measures for self-employed workers. “Probably today the Dpcm will be signed that will contain the criteria for the three bands, then it will be up to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza to issue the specific provision.
The measures approved at the national level establish a curfew at 10 p.m., museum and exhibition closings, distance education for secondary schools, bars and restaurants closing at 6 p.m., capacity reduced to 50 percent of vehicles. More restrictive measures for red zones, such as Lombardy, except for preschools, primary and secondary schools, which remain open.
The prohibition of entering and leaving the Region has been sanctioned and also within the territory itself (always except for necessity and urgency), the closure of all retail stores, except food, pharmacies, kiosks, so that markets for non-food items . The shutters of bars, pubs, restaurants, ice cream parlors, patisseries are also lowered: only catering with delivery service and catering with takeaway food is allowed until 10pm. The activity for hairdressers, barbers, beauticians is suspended.
Also blocking of sports activities, also carried out in outdoor sports centers, while individual motor activities are allowed in the immediate vicinity of the house, so only “solo” outdoor sports activities are allowed.
