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TURIN. Going back to the orange zone is not a choice, it is an automatism. We have the numbers to be in the orange zone. We have to keep these numbers for at least 14 days, until November 30. If the numbers continue being these, at the end of the month Piedmont will go from the red zone to the orange one.
So Alberto Cirio, president of the Piedmont Region, on “The Breakfast Club” this morning on Radio Capital. Cirio explained that “Now the RT has dropped considerably, we are just above 1”.
The president of the Region, Alberto Cirio, spoke about it at the press conference called today to illustrate the Valentino field hospital, in the Fifth Pavilion, which will soon enter service. “We hope that once its function is exhausted, when it is disarmed and sanctified, it can become one of the places to administer Anti-Covid vaccines that also arrive in Italy,” said the president. Don’t worry about how to preserve the sophisticated new antidotes: “In Piedmont we have an excellent cold chain.”
The infection rate has dropped
According to the latest report sent by the Ministry of Health, not yet validated, the Rt index has fallen again: from 1.37 to 1. The patients waiting in the emergency room, which in the ordinary regime are about 250 daily, are 450 480 (On November 5 they had risen to 620). And in the 480 Covid patients they decrease. The doubling time of the infection has passed from six to ten days. “Tomorrow the crucial week begins,” Cirio explained, “because starting tomorrow we will begin to evaluate the effects of the containment measures linked to the inclusion of Piedmont in the red zone.”
Band change
Obviously, this being the case, the president hopes that in the next few days the government will reclassify Piedmont: from a red zone to an orange zone. There is no controversy about the 21 indicators used in the period of the ministerial report to monitor the progress of the epidemic in the regions: «The mechanism is correct, from a technical and health point of view. As presidents of the Region, in any case, we ask for a simplification of the parameters, because when things are clear, citizens are more willing to make sacrifices and respect the rules. In any case, the guard must remain high: prudence and rigor. Free everything is not an option. And immediately he expressed his concern: «It is good to return to normality, but if you spend Christmas like Ferragosto we don’t understand anything. Reopening and then closing activities scares me. Stopping and moving on, stopping and then starting again hurts – the risks to the economy can be fatal. Better gradual openings. We in Piedmont are an example of how a total blockade can be avoided.
But what changes between the red and orange zones?
Bars, restaurants, pastry shops and ice cream parlors would remain closed (open for take out only), but high school students would go back to school. High schools would continue with distance learning.
The ability to move during the day also changes. In the red zone you cannot leave the house except for work, health, need, urgency, education, or to go for a run or walk (the latter activity near your home); In the orange zone, on the other hand, circulation within the municipality itself is free, but only between 5 and 22, when the curfew is triggered. It is forbidden to leave the Municipality and leave or enter the Region. But many retail stores, such as clothing stores, would reopen. In public transport, the capacity would remain at 50%.
On weekends, holidays and days before holidays, medium and large sales structures would remain closed, except for pharmacies, food outlets, tobacconists and kiosks.
Too many hospitalizations
Finally, with regard to hospitalizations, Cirio reiterated that Piedmont, with Liguria, is one of the regions with the highest rate of hospitalization. Italy: out of 100 patients, 4 in the hospital. In Liguria there are 9, in Piedmont 8. “What is explained – Cirio added – in light of two factors: the high general age of the Piedmontese population and the substantial absence of a territorial medicine that acts as a filter between the home and the hospitals, weakened by cuts suffered for at least a decade and that we are trying to strengthen.
