Calabria “yellow zone”, the regional council votes: “Mattarella intervene immediately otherwise we will proclaim it, do not sign the decree that extends the commissioner”

Calabria “yellow zone”, the regional council votes: “Mattarella intervene immediately, otherwise we will proclaim it, do not sign the decree that extends the commissioner”. Majority and minority after hours of discussion find no synthesis

The regional council of Palazzo Campanella to Reggio with a single point on the agenda: “Yellow zone of Calabria” After minute of silence To remember Jole Santelli, the discussion was tough and tough with scathing words against Prime Minister Conte, now-former Commissioner Cotticelli, and Minister Speranza. At the end of the discussion, two motions were put to the vote (it was not possible to find a summary of a single document): one from the opposition and one from the majority. To illustrate the first is the regional councilor Carlo Guccione: “We ask the Government to launch clear interventions so that Calabria leaves the red zone in a week ”. Baldo Esposito, for his part, presented the majority motion: “The election of the red zone is a hostile political act against our region that has no scientific basis and that is killing our already precarious economy. We ask that the yellow zone be established quickly, otherwise we will make a special ordinance. We also ask President Mattarella not to sign the Calabrian Decree “. The majority motion passes with 20 votes in favor, while the minority motion is rejected with 7 votes in favor.

Below is the full text of the motion approved by the Calabrian Regional Council at the end of today’s session:

Given the

– the DPCM of November 3, 2020 and the ordinance of the Minister of Health n. October 24 from 19 to 25 – contain the new measures to combat and contain the Covid-19 emergency – have identified three areas corresponding to as many critical levels in the Regions;

– that the Calabria Region was included in the so-called Red Zone, with the utmost criticality, which imposes severe restrictions on individual freedoms and economic activities, through an almost total closure;

– that as a result of the Decree of the Prime Minister of November 3, 2020, any movement in Calabria, even within the municipality itself, is prohibited at any time, except for work, necessity and health reasons; movement from one Region to another and from one Municipality to another is prohibited;
– that the Decree of the Prime Minister of November 3, 2020 establishes the closure of bars and restaurants, 7 days a week, allowing only take-away food and home delivery, as well as the closure of shops and beauty centers;
– that the restrictions also apply to all sports competitions, with the closure of museums, exhibitions, theaters, cinemas and gyms;
that distance education be provided for the second grade high school, for the second and third grade classes. Therefore, only preschool, primary and secondary schools remain open. Universities closed.

While

– the inclusion of Calabria in the Red Zone, dictated by a questionable reading of epidemiological data, constitutes a fatal blow to the regional economy that had managed with enormous sacrifices to resist the first wave of the virus, through the virtuous behavior of its citizens already the self-denial of economic operators;

– that the Government’s decision seems, in light of all the official data available for the Calabria Region, incomprehensible and meaningless, especially when compared to the allocation in the Yellow Zone of Regions, including the southern regions, which have passed all guard levels;
– that the sudden decision of the Government has unleashed an understandable social anger in the Region, which led to protests throughout the region that could multiply in days with serious effects also on the public order situation;

Furthermore, considering that

– the partial reading by the Government of the epidemiological data concerning Calabria, which to date continues to record the best relations in the South and in Italy between the spread of the virus and the number of inhabitants;

– that the following most recent weekly reports from the Ministry of Health, n. 22 (relating to the week of October 5 to 11, 2020), n. 23 (relating to the week of October 12 to 18), n. 24 8 relative to the week of October 19 to 25), indicate values ​​of the Rt indicator equal to 0.94, 1.29, 1.66. These do not integrate the conditions of Scenario 4 (corresponding to the Red Zone) provided for in the official document of the Ministry of Health: “Prevention and response to Covid-19: evolution of the strategy and planning in the transition phase for the autumn period- winter “, legally applicable to the current situation;

– that in Calabria the updated epidemiological situation as of November 6, 2020 is as follows:

– that the total number of Covid cases in our region 6714 of which 4456 active cases and 2258 closed cases (cured + deaths).

Of the 4456 active cases, 15 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 212 patients are hospitalized in wards, 4229 patients are in home isolation, 1974 are cured and 132 are dead patients.

– that the cases are divided as follows by province:

• Reggio calabria total of 2,589 cases of which 1,819 active cases and 770 closed cases. Currently the province of Reggio Calabria has 29 deaths, 62 hospitalized in the ward, 6 in intensive care, 1,751 in home isolation and 741 recovered.
• Cosenza total of cases 2,058 of which 1,379 active cases and 693 closed cases. Currently the province of Cosenza has 49 dead, 78 hospitalized in the ward, 4 in intensive care, 1,297 in home isolation and 630 recovered.
• Catanzaro total of 1051 cases of which 693 active cases and 358 closed cases. Currently, the province of Catanzaro has 40 dead, 52 hospitalized in the ward, 5 in intensive care, 636 in home isolation and 329 recovered.
• Crotone total of cases 383 of which 222 active cases and 161 closed cases. Currently the province of Crotone has 6 deaths, 15 hospitalized in the ward, 0 in intensive care, 207 in home isolation and 155 recovered.
• Vibo valentia total of cases 227 of which 101 active cases and 126 closed cases. Currently the province of Vibo Valentia has 7 deaths, 5 hospitalized in the ward, 0 in intensive care, 96 in home isolation and 119 recovered.

The total number of cases from outside the region and abroad is 396 cases: 1 died, 267 in home isolation and 128 recovered;

In particular:

– that in the “currently positive” / population ratio, in Calabria there is 1 case for every 534 inhabitants against 1/316 in Basilicata, 1/297 in Sicily and Puglia, 1/114 in Campania.

– that in the ratio “total cases” / population of Calabria there is 1 case for every 333 inhabitants compared to 1/219 in Basilicata, 1/200 in Sicily, 1/191 in Puglia, 1/88 in Campania.

– that in the ratio “swabs / positive cases” in Calabria there is 1 case for every 48 swabs performed against 1/42 from Basilicata, 1/28 from Sicily and Puglia, 1/15 from Campania.

– that the cure rate for Calabria “cases cured / total” is 35.4% compared to 32% in Puglia, 30% in Sicily, 28% in Basilicata, 21.3% in Campania;

– that the “deceased / population” mortality rate in Calabria is 2.07%, better than Sicily (2.2%), Basilicata (2.10%), Puglia (3.57%) and certainly much beyond below the national average (4.87%).

– That the partial and instrumental use of data referring to the so-called “resilience of the health system” that would have been a decisive element for the inclusion of the Red Zone.

Considering, also, that

– The very serious infractions of the National Government, which for more than 10 years has maintained absolute control and direct management of all the economic resources of the Regional Health System, emptying the Region of any competence or function;

– that the policies of the Government Commissioners that have followed each other so far and that have followed only the logic of horizontal cuts, drastically reducing the number of doctors, nurses, OSS in all the hospitals in Calabria, with the simultaneous closure of departments and services in the area;

– that the inertia of the current Commissioners had on the resources for the Covid-19 emergency (let’s think of the 115,059,171.54 euros allocated with: DL no. 14/2020 equal to 21,104,026.00; DL no. 18 / 2020 equal to 23,981,850.00; DL No. 34/2020 equal to 54,715,667.00; DL No. 104/2020 equal to 15,257,628.54), millions of euros destined for Calabria without being able to collect the number of places of “intensive care” and increase the potential to make tampons;

– that the “stubborn” decision of the national government to continue in the regime of commissars, maintaining all management, programmatic and organizational functions for the next three years, seriously hits the autonomy of the Calabria region, which is definitely deprived of a jurisdiction established in the Constitution.

Given the above and considered

The President of the Regional Council and the Regional Council are requested to intervene immediately before the Honorable President of the Republic. Sergio Mattarella, to avoid promulgating the Calabrian Decree.

too

The President of the Regional Council and the Regional Council of the FF are requested to implement any useful, necessary and significant initiative addressed to the President of the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Health, also and above all to avoid the aggravation of social conflicts in the Region, with the aim of reviewing, with extreme urgency, the decision to locate the Red Zone of Calabria through a new and more serene reading of the epidemiological data from which the inclusion between the Regions in the Yellow Zone may arise. Otherwise, the Regional Council invites the President of the Regional Council of the FF to evaluate the opportunity to decide with his own extraordinary ordinance that, without prejudice to the ordinance of the Minister of Health of November 4, “Other urgent measures in the matter of containment and management of the epidemiological emergency of Covid-19 “, provides for the application to the Calabria region of the conditions provided by art. 1 of the Prime Minister’s Decree of November 3, 2020, and not those provided for in art. 3 of the Prime Minister’s Decree, without prejudice to the local restrictions, established as a result of the evolution of the ongoing epidemiological emergency ”.

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