Covid: ER, from Monday 8 Romagna enters the red zone – Emilia-Romagna



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Bonaccini, ‘difficult decisions to stop the contagion

(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, MAR 05 – Entry into the red zone from Monday, March 8, for all the municipalities of Ausl Romagna. These – explains the Region – are those of the provinces of Rimini, Forlì-Cesena and Ravenna, territories already in dark orange with the exception of Forlivese, also in red as of Monday.

Based on data from the Sanitary Company, and informed mayors, the Region will adopt a new ordinance tomorrow, in force from 8 to Sunday 21 to deal with the spread of infections, which continues to increase due to new variants, even among young people. and very young and given the increase in hospitalizations in the Covid wards and in intensive care.

In detail, it is pointed out, the main restrictions that will be introduced with the red zone, in addition to those foreseen in dark orange, refer to the closure of kindergartens and kindergartens, 100% at a distance for all primary schools and universities. , the cessation of commercial activities with the exception of essential ones such as pharmacies, parapharmacies, grocery stores, kiosks and other specific categories.

The data provided by Ausl Romagna and related to the area of ​​competition, in the last 14 days see an incidence of 832 cases of positivity per 100,000 inhabitants. Regarding hospitalizations, 486 in Covid wards while intensive care units are occupied by 38%, above the limit threshold of 30%.

They are “difficult decisions, which happen, but we must take to limit and stop the infection, working together with the Government to change the rhythm of the vaccination campaign”, observe the president of the Region, Stefano Bonaccini, and the regional councilor of Health Policies, Raffaele Donini. “The epidemiological situation continues to see an upturn in the spread of the virus – they add – with figures that day by day and in a very short time reach levels difficult to find in the past: quick decisions are needed to respond at once. blow to the pandemic that changes due to new variants ”. (HANDLE).

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