Coronavirus, Lombardy region: R0 lower than in Italy

05/15/2020 Italy, World



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The figures for the day are comforting: the trend is positive. Above 14,080 swabs carried out i positive They were 522 in the Lombardy region; 653 the healed for a total from the beginning pandemic 30 thousand. Ten patients left the Intensive Care Unit and 297 people were hospitalized today. There were 1,400 at the peak. In the other wards, 4818 patients were hospitalized, 189 fewer than yesterday.

TO Brescia register today 106 positive In addition, for a total of 13,948. Yesterday 94 people were infected, Tuesday the 128th. The regional councilor Fabio Rolfi, presenting the data, reiterated how in Lombardy the R0 is equal to 0.53 compared to 0.70 national.

“Results, therefore, that demonstrate – said Commissioner Rolfi – that what has been implemented has worked” and that citizens have respected the rules. Now he only waits for the approval of the reopens that he will have to take into account, as President Fontana and Councilor Rolfi said, also reiterated the indications of the Government and INAIL.

“We need – said Rolfi – of clear, precise and irrefutable rules». Councilor for Agriculture Rolfi also mentioned how Lombardy is the first agricultural region in Italy and how it is necessary to solve the crisis in the world of restaurant still closed and, on the other hand, that of the labor force to be sought among the unemployed and according to those who have qualified. Support for the agricultural sector was also guaranteed through calls for a preference for domestic consumption through Io mangio lombardia and Io bevo lombardo.