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ROME. Stop at private parties, limitations to the local hours but quarantine reduced to 10 days and no longer two tampons but only one to declare themselves cured and thus be able to leave isolation (while the asymptomatic who continue without negativization will end the quarantine at 21 days) . The government prepares to “tighten the shirts” and the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, goes on television at dinner to give what sounds like an ultimatum: we must stop the spread of the virus before being forced to drink drastic measures. Between tonight and tomorrow the new Dpcm should arrive with the rules to try to cope with the second increase in infections. The infections are still many, although fortunately in many cases they are asymptomatic or mild cases, but the trend worries the government. We need a squeeze, “we have to do it immediately so as not to find ourselves in conditions to later have to take tougher measures,” the minister emphatically warns.
Yesterday there were 5,456 new infections, a slight decrease compared to 5,724 on Saturday, but with more than 28 thousand fewer tampons, as always happens on Sundays. Above all, the pressure on intensive care is worrying, with still few hospitalizations out of the total number of patients, but growing in absolute terms also due to the many daily infections: only yesterday 30 more. This leads us to a phase change ”, Speranza explains, adding that in a few months he hired more than 30,000 people in the health service.
The declared objective is to avoid not only a new total blockade of the country, but also those closures at the local level that are also “a hypothesis” although “to date there are no conditions for any territorial closure,” specifies the minister. The government is trying by all means to circumvent another stop that would be very heavy for an already severely tested economic system. We need to limit “nonessential activities” to keep productive activities and school open.
Before promulgating the new rules, the government will see the regions again, the meeting is scheduled for tonight and the Dpcm should receive the go-ahead immediately after or tomorrow. An agreement is sought with the governors because, says Speranza, “we must work together and we must work as a team, the enemy is common and there is no way to divide.”
The package of measures was already evaluated yesterday with the experts of the Scientific Technical Committee, Speranza asked them to work especially to find solutions that speed up the swab and test procedures and, in fact, shorten the quarantine time as it already is. Made in other European countries. Currently, just under half of the swabs that are performed every day are not used so much to intercept new infected as to “liberate” patients from isolation, because two consecutive negatives are needed to declare themselves cured. But the CTS has given the go-ahead, from now on a negative swab will suffice and this will free up resources to test new suspected patients.
To avoid the queues of tampons seen in recent days, then, the government asked CTS technicians to also give the green light to rapid tests – antigenic ones – both for schools and for those who have not had close contact with an infected person . Certainly, Minister Lucía Azzolina specifies that “there are no hypotheses of restrictive measures for schools.” The tests, then, can also be done in general practitioners’ offices. Good news for asymptomatic patients who continue to have positive swabs: from now on they will still be allowed out of quarantine after 21 days as, they explain to the CTS, studies prove that at 20 days the viral load is so low that no it is. be able to infect other people.
The “squeeze”, however, will not affect those who run or ride a bicycle, as it seemed yesterday after the circulation of a circular from the Ministry of the Interior. A hypothesis that immediately generated controversy, even among those who support the government like Matteo Renzi. In the afternoon, the Ministry of the Interior clarified: the outdoor mask belongs to those who take a walk, that is, “physical activity” and not those who practice sports, even if it is at an amateur level.
