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Sicily in the orange zone, and is immediately controversial. One minute after the prime minister’s speech, announcing the total closure of bars and restaurants on the island, there is the Sicilian governor himself, Nello musumeci, to inflame minds: “The choice of the national government to relegate Sicily to orange zone it seems absurd and unreasonable. I told the Minister of Health over and over again tonight. hope, who wanted to make the serious decision without any prior agreement with the Region and beyond any legitimate scientific explanation ”.
And immediately he lists a series of numbers: “One figure for all – continues the Sicilian governor – today there are Campania it has had more than four thousand new positives; Sicily just over a thousand. There Campania has almost 55,000 positives, Sicilia 18,000. Do we want to talk about Lazio? Today it hospitalizes 2,317 positives compared to 1,100 Sicilians, with 217 in intensive care compared to our 148. However, Campania and Lazio are assigned to yellow zone. Why this spasmodic desire to hit hundreds of thousands of Sicilian companies ahead of time? We ask the Conte government to modify the provision, because it is unfair and unjustified. Cunning doesn’t pay ”.
Cunning and absurd choices unreasonable: Musumeci thus gives voice to a good part of Sicilian public opinion, surprised not so much by the position in zone “closure“, From the absence in the same position of regions considered a much higher risk than that of Sicily, like Lazio and Campania. The infections in Sicily are minor, there is no doubt, but there is a fact that Musumeci does not mention and that also arises in light of the clarifications after the statements of Giuseppe Conte. In fact, the division into zones is based on the monitoring of the ISS carried out in the week of October 19 to 25 and is based on parameters divided into 21 macro areas. Among these is the activity of put on screen carried out by the territories. And it is at this point that the difference between Sicily and the other two regions taken as a comparison by the governor may explain why the island is considered high risk: in the week under review, Sicily processed 43,630 swabs, while Campania has done almost double, with 81,321 and Lazio reached 130,265 processed swabs (while Puglia, positioned as Sicily in the orange zone, stands at 31,747 tests). Thus, the island manufactured 86,635 fewer tampons than Lazio (12,376 fewer, on average, per day) and 37,691 fewer than Campania in a week (5,384 fewer, on average, per day), compared to a higher population in these last two regions. the Lazio bill 910 thousand inhabitants over more than Sicily, while Campania over 850 thousand more, the three oscillate in a figure that touches and exceeds 5 million inhabitants. So even if the factor Rt – the contagion index – in Sicily the lowest (in the period examined it was 1.42, while in Lazio it was 1.51, in Campania it was 1.49 and in Puglia it was 1.65) it was the least ability to control infections which weighed on the government’s election.
The number of intensive care also influenced. Last October 21 Nicola Zingaretti signs an ordinance for the increase of beds, to reach the threshold of 552 Covid seats in intensive and subintensive care. In Campania as of October 25, 320 between activated and activatable. The number of intensive care beds in Sicily, on the other hand, is difficult to find precisely. You have to call all the provincial hospitals to find out the exact number, in the end they are about 245 intensive care posts already activated (Enna has none and Palermo gives a figure that fluctuates between 80 and 100). However, from the regional health department they ensure that those that can be activated are 500, already prepared. Although for days they have pointed out the true criticality of the activation: the anesthetists. There are not enough personnel to activate the posts, a problem that affects the entire country.
“The Region provided us with all the equipment. Lack of staff “, he assures, for example, Angelo Aliquò, general director of the ASP of Ragusa. There are 31 active spaces in the Ragusa area, where a recently declared new red zone in Vittoria, a municipality with almost 64 thousand inhabitants. And there are many Sicilian red zones, all concentrated in mountain villages: Centuripe (5249 inhabitants), Torretta (4278), Galati Mamertino (2419), Randazzo (10599), Sambuca (5792), Mezzojuso (2799), Villafrati (3275). Small municipalities with few inhabitants, but with high contiguity between people, and especially with centers of RsaLike Villafrati, which was the red zone in both March and October. Or as Sambuca where images of ambulances lined up to evacuate the RSA have been on the web.
And it is precisely the management of nursing homes one of the 21 parameters examined by the ISS to divide regions into areas of higher or lower risk. According to the regional health councilor, Ruggero razzaHowever, the occupancy rate for ICU beds in the week under review passed “from 15 to 19 percentThat is why he underlines: “I read ravings in the press (sometimes instrumental, others dictated by the desire for controversy at all costs) regarding the occupation of beds in Sicily and it seems to me, therefore, essential to publish the weekly report used by Rome. As you can see, our employment rates were well below the alert threshold. And, in reference to last week’s data, they don’t even take into account the plan approved by the Scientific technical committee which increases them even more. They are facts, not analysis ”. Meanwhile, in the week under review, the positive aspects in intensive care were 35 more in Lazio28 more in Campania and 23 more in Sicily. Thus, the island marks an increase in intensive care very close to that of Campania and not far from that of Lazio, where they process more tampons and therefore perhaps intervene first in the infected.
The controversy, as expected, also provokes the reaction of the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza: “The regions feed the data with which the control room has been monitoring since May – emphasizes the minister in a note -. In the control room there are three representatives indicated by the regions. It is surreal that instead of assuming their share of responsibility, there are those who pretend to ignore the seriousness of the data on their territories. We need unity and responsibility. There are no unnecessary controversies ”. And even the opposition is unleashed against the regional government: “Sicilia is orange area because, despite having less sick Covid than other regions of the yellow area, it does not have a number beds suitable for sub-intensive care and intensive to ensure the necessary care. If Musumeci had taken advantage of the summer period to adapt the sanitary facilities, Sicily would be the yellow zone “, says the parent company dem in the regional assembly, Giuseppe Lupo.
“It was necessary to increase the beds, the tampons and the tracking, but what has come? The increase in pensions and end-of-term allowance for Ars deputies “, underline the Sicilian Cinquestelle, members of the Ars Health Committee, George Easter, Salvatore Siragusa and Antonio De Luca. In recent days, the M5 councilors have denounced, in fact, the increase in the pension of the regional councils. And now they insist on tampons: “Tell us why we do it alone 6000 tampons per day. If with 6,000 daily tampons we have 1,000 infected per day, does it mean that a controlled Sicilian of 6 is positive and then how many would there be if we made 20 or 30,000 daily tampons? Apart from orange… “.
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