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We are monitoring the situation and in the next few hours we will say if it is necessary to take some measures or if it will be enough to be strictly respectful of what is already arranged. This was stated by the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana.
26 people died from Covid and 2,067 new positives in Lombardy, according to data from Thursday, October 15: 32,507 swabs made, for a percentage equal to 6.3%, identical to Wednesday. On the other hand, 72 people are in intensive care, 8 more than Wednesday, 726 those from other departments, an increase of 81 units. Most infections always occur in Milan, with 1053 cases, of which 515 in the city. It is followed by the province of Monza and Brianza with 196, Varese with 170, Brescia with 106, Lodi with 81, Pavia with 79 and Bergamo with 71.
Given these data, new and more drastic measures are not excluded, says Lombardy We are monitoring the situation and in the next few hours we will say if it is necessary to take some measures or if instead it will be enough to be rigorously respectful of what has already been established. Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy Region, told SkyTg24, aware that “special attention should be paid to Milan.” In any case, if necessary, “the Fiera hospital has never been closed, it is ready there.”
Even the experts do not hide their concern, even if – as virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco said – “At the moment there are no conditions for a confinement.”
Meanwhile, the emergency services of the Sacco and Fatebenefratelli hospitals in Milan have decided to accept only patients with Covid-19 and divert patients with other pathologies to other Milanese hospitals. The decision was made to protect non-Covid patients with urgent and impossible-to-cure illnesses.
However, as part of the supervisory activity, the prefect of Milan Renato Saccone has adopted the closure of eight business activities for a period of five days. In detail, a bakery and seven shops in the neighborhood have been closed.
“To date we do not foresee radical interventions, but decisions must be made quickly,” Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said during the press conference following the Thursday afternoon meeting at the Corso Monforte prefecture in Milan, where he held talks. with the prefect Renato Saccone and a “working group” of virologists, doctors and experts to take stock of the increase in the contagion curve in Lombardy and, in particular, in Milan.
“We are concerned about the situation of hospitals, today there are 72 people in intensive care, there is rapid growth and we must act quickly,” says Sala, noting that the Rt index “has exceeded 2 in the Metropolitan City of Milan” . Recalling that all decisions will be agreed with the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, who will meet on Friday, the Mayor of Milan adds: “We set ourselves the objective of looking for a direction because it is the doctors themselves who say that we must intervene.” Also because Sala specifies, “if you change the closing tenor, the result can be seen after two or three weeks. I do not think – concludes the mayor – that today we should go towards an extreme closure but I agree that something more must be done “.
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