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Milan, October 15, 2020 – Lombardy ranks first among Italian regions for the number of new infections. I reached a new negative record with more than two thousand new cases in 24 hours. I’m on it 2,067 positives tested in the last 24 hours, approximately 6.3% of the 32,507 swabs processed in 24 hours, the maximum number reached since the start of the pandemic. Deaths amount to 17,037, with 26 more dead than yesterday. . Figures on the rise also for intensive care where there are 8 more hospitalized than yesterday (total 72). The number of people admitted to other departments is also growing, today +81 (total 726). With the tests conducted today, 1.5 million Lombards have been swabbed in the region since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of tests processed is 2,411,663.
Data from the provinces
The Milan province is still the most affected and only accounts for half of the more than two thousand new positive coronaviruses in Lombardy: they are 1,053 throughout the metropolitan area, dme than 515 in the city of Milan. In the province of Monza and Brianza there are 196 new cases, also linked to the outbreak that emerged in a RSA. TO Varese new infections are 170, a Brescia 106, a I gave it 81 ea Pavia 79. Further back, the province of Bergamo with 71 almost, 63 a How e 51 in Lecco. In the province of Cremona there are 34, a Mantua 30 and a Sondrio 22. It is followed by the province of Monza Brianza with 196 cases,
Al Sacco and Fatebenefratelli only sick Covid
Hospital emergency departments Sacco and Fatebenefratelli meanwhile in Milan decided to accept only Covid patients-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.
Fontana: “Any measure but no lockdown”
Even the experts do not hide their concern, although – as the virologist said Fabrizio Pregliasco – “at the moment there are no conditions for a confinement”. “We are monitoring the situation – said the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana. – and in the next few hours we will tell you if it is I need to take some action or if, on the contrary, it will be enough to be rigorously respectful of what has already been established ”. Excluding, for now, a new lock: “No, we have not reached that point. We are simply doing evaluations to understand what the numbers are, what is the evolution of the virus, if there is any curve that is shooting up or that we can control, but for now we are already on the line drawn last week, namely that of avoid gatherings, always wear the mask even outdoors and wash your hands frequently. Those minimum rules that may be enough. ”“ We have reached a point, ”he added,“ where we can no longer afford to do what we want and maintain those behaviors that this summer have unfortunately made life more or less normal. We cannot and must not. “
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