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The battle against the second wave of the Covid epidemic continues in Milan and Lombardy. The data for Sunday, November 15, as usual, are provided in the afternoon by the Ministry of Health and the Lombardy Region. New Covid positives in the Region are 8,060 compared to 38,702 swabs. The relationship between swabs performed and new positives is 20.83%. In the metropolitan city of Milan, there are 3,302 new people positive for the virus.
There are currently 837 people hospitalized in intensive care for severe respiratory failure: the number of beds occupied is 20 more. We remember that it is a “balance” between the new entries and the people who are registered. Likewise, 160 more beds are occupied in non-intensive care. The total in this case is now 7,781 hospitalized. Overall, there are currently 8,618 people affected by Sars-Cov2 in Queens hospitals. Eventually, the virus killed another 181 people in a single day, more than twenty more than the day before; the (official) total reached 19,367 in Lombardy.
Cancer Institute: Covid is already present in Milan in September 2019
According to a study by the Istituto dei Tumori in Milan, in collaboration with the Statale and the University of Siena, in September 2019 there were certainly cases in Lombardy.
The study, published in the Tumori Journal, analyzes blood samples, taken between September 2019 and March 2020, from 959 asymptomatic people from all over Italy, who had been examined (with CT scan and sampling) for lung cancer. The blood of these people was retested for Covid antibodies, and the result was positive in 111 cases: 30 in the metropolitan city of Milan, 59 in Lombardy.
The researchers then selected six blood samples with the antibodies to verify that they were actually capable of neutralizing the virus, and this was confirmed. Four of these samples date from October and since it takes them a certain period of time to develop, the “encounter” with the virus must obviously go back a bit further, at least until September.
Minister Guerini in the parking lot of via Novara
On Saturday 14, Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini visited the largest drive through in Italy, installed in the parking lot of via Novara in Milan. A structure built a few days later by the army and where, starting on Friday the 13th, rapid smears are made to diagnose Covid, initially on public personnel and, starting on Monday, 16, on students and school operators.
“On this driving tour of Milan, which I wanted to visit, up to 800 swabs per day can be done. A structure inserted in the network of the Lombard territory, severely hit in the first phase of the Coronavirus emergency. This represents a concrete help for citizens and students and for that I wanted to personally thank the military: Italians are grateful for what they are doing ”, declared the minister at the end of the visit, carried out together with the prefect of Milan Renato Saccone .
“The country – said Guerini on the sidelines of the visit – is experiencing the emergency with great responsibility and dignity. They will be present in all the phases that we will go through, even in the Christmas phase. He added that “to live Christmas it is not necessary for people to be given rules, they do it alone, because we are all serious, responsible and aware that the enemy is also confronted through individual daily behavior.”
