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All day discussing contagion data. “We have to study the new ones, not the ones from the previous week,” rant the governors while they wait to know in which part of Italy the Region they administer will be located. Hours go by groping in the dark, between old data and new data that is still incomplete. Late at night, at a press conference, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, announcing that the decree will only be operational as of Friday and listing an Italy divided into three, admits: “The Minister of Health has adopted a updated order of surveillance results. I am not a technician, but from what I understand you do not photograph today, it is updated to a week before. ”Exactly what the presidents did not want to happen.
The government hoped to draw the map of the three areas, yellow, orange and red, by lunchtime and instead the puzzle was solved only in the late afternoon. Therefore, the criteria of urgency in the promulgation of the dpcm and of immediate operation, repeatedly evoked by the Prime Minister and continuously requested by the majority parties, have been annulled.
At 6 o’clock in the afternoon, the President of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, writes: “Until now the government has not communicated anything to us and we do not know in which band Lombardy is located.” Here is the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala: “A Milanese bar is closing and it still does not know if it will be able to reopen tomorrow.” An hour later, both from the Palazzo Chigi and from the Ministry of Health, it transpires that the “new measures reserved for the yellow, orange and red zones will be in force from Friday.” Therefore, there is a decree hastily signed overnight which, however, is not yet operational because the collation of the Regions in the three risk areas was communicated only at 8.30 pm by Prime Minister Conte at a press conference . The rules should have gone into effect as of tomorrow and instead the entire provision will be postponed until Friday.
The government throws the ball into the Regions’ field saying that “in this way everyone has time to organize their activities.” In reality, the problem refers to the very location of the Regions in one specific area and not in another and, therefore, the intersection of the scientific data that determines the risk index.
The main knot of the whole day was just that. The old data was on the table. Therefore, today was a hectic day also for the control room of the Ministry of Health, meeting in an extraordinary way since this morning to support the decisions and ordinances of Roberto Speranza, who has the task of inserting the Regions into the three risk bands . The data in the table are those of the latest report from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the Ministry of Health and refer to the period between October 19 and 25. But from the Regions had arrived – in general the sending of the figures on which Iss and the Ministry of Health prepare the evaluations entrusted to the report on Friday that begins Tuesday – even more updated data.
Incomplete data: this would appear to be the control room assessment late in the morning when the guidance to decide based on the data from the last follow-up seems to take shape. The regions do not like this position, Lombardy in the lead. President Attilio Fontana writes that “the assessments should be made on the basis of today’s data taking into account the restrictions already adopted in Lombardy, the sacrifices already made by the Lombards in these 10 days to contain the spread of the virus and those who we registered a first improvement. “Basically, they ask in the regional offices, why do we have to decide on the old data base?
The question agitates the control room, the press conference called for the early afternoon, during which – as planned – the general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, the president of the Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli had to analyze the epidemiological situation, an hour by sled. There is no professor Locatelli and the only data shown will be for the day.
“These are particularly hectic and intense hours, we have been together since this morning in the control room and we continue working,” Rezza begins a little out of breath. He lists the figures of the day, underlines that “the rate of positivity with respect to the number of swabs performed is around 10%, a very high figure”, and “the number of hospitalizations in intensive care continues to grow even though there are no criticalities.” . Twenty minutes and then Rezza goes back to the control room, we continue to analyze the data, to cross-reference the information. Conte arrives at the press conference with the location of the Regions in the different areas. Now it is up to the governors to say whether they agree or not. Vincenzo De Luca, whose region is in the yellow band, the low risk one, is already on the barricades. “What else needs to happen to close Campania? There are 4100 infected ”, we learned from sources close to him. It is no coincidence that until the last moment the president with the flamethrower invoked equal national measures for all the Regions and above all rigorous. Concept on which De Luca returned this morning pointing a finger at the government, which “will assume health and social responsibility as a result of its elections, always delayed and always fragmented.” And it is almost certain that tomorrow, the Campania Region will issue an ordinance with which it will confirm the suspension of face-to-face teaching for primary and secondary schools. Another day of passion is expected.
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