Campania one step away from the confinement and Lombardy in danger

Yesterday, the number of positives for coronavirus in Italy reached 5372 with 28 deaths and record swabs, but the regions with a contagion index higher than 1 are currently only four: Sicily (1.34), Piedmont (1, 33), Campania ( 1.31) and Basilicata (1.33). However, there is a region in which the resurgence of the virus is scarier: Lombardy, where only yesterday the positives reached 933, just under a fifth of the total.

Campania one step away from the confinement

Among the four with the contagion rate above the alert threshold, Campania is the most worrying. Yesterday, President Vincenzo De Luca openly foreshadowed a territorial blockade if the numbers continue to grow beyond the threshold. Not to mention that the borders between the regions could also be closed, given that 10,000 from Campania arrive in Lazio every day for work reasons.

The messenger writes that De Luca is thinking instead of a territorial blockade for Naples and its province, which currently represent the greatest danger of contagion while in other provinces such as Avellino and Caserta the data is more comforting. “The objective is to have a balance between the new positives and those cured. But if we have a thousand infections and two hundred cured, it is blockage.” And then: “If there is an increase of 800 new positives every day, we close everything. I do not dramatize, I do a numerical calculation. Campania is completing phase C of its plan, planned for a medium-high level of contagion. Now we enter the phase D, that of high or very high contagion. My opinion is that already today, perhaps, we have reached the point where we should make drastic decisions, but we are still waiting: we know that a new generalized closure would be a tragedy, but we will take the necessary steps. necessary decisions and protect the safety of our families, not the most comfortable or easy. ”Words that yesterday sparked a controversy with the mayor of the capital Luigi De Magistris.

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… and Lombardy in danger

And while in intensive care hospitalizations and the delay of additional beds almost tripled (only 40% are currently operational), Lombardy is also terrifying: yesterday there were 501 hospitalizations between Milan and the province, and the Corriere della Sera He writes that for three consecutive days, until yesterday, the health authority (which also includes Lodi) registers a series of new positives above the limit of 300: exceeding it is something worse than a risk indicator. Antonio Pesenti, coordinator of the Crisis Unit of the Intensive Care Region and head of resuscitation at the Milan Polyclinic, explains in an interview with the newspaper that “Today in all Lombard intensive care units we have 44 patients, 100% with Covid pneumonia on mechanical ventilation or intubated; it means that they are seriously ill like those in March and with a similar mortality, around 40 percent of the patients.

Pesenti adds that something has changed compared to March: “People with symptoms present immediately to the emergency room and this relieves, for now, the pressure on resuscitation because we can intervene with treatment in a timely manner. The other variant is that the The average age of hospitalized patients has dropped from 71 to 61, with critically ill patients even in their forties and in some cases even younger, as has already happened. Many things are different, we have gained enormous experience, but there is still no a specific therapy against the virus “. Then he proposes to close public places: “Last night I came home, around seven, and I went through the premises in the Bocconi area (190 students from the university of the same name are in fiduciary isolation, ed) and I saw the young people outside the bars without a mask 20 centimeters from each other. In this case, the only solution would be to close the bars at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, throughout the Region, as a doctor and citizen I see no alternative “.