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In the table that day after day tells the trend of the Coronavirus in Sicily there is a number that now really worries: 1,015. And it is the data that the victims on the island have pointed out since the beginning of the pandemic.
Yesterday the ceiling of 44 deaths in a single day was reached, a sad record that is added to that of the cases, 1,837. But it is the growing victims who generate an alarm that not only concerns Sicily and that comes directly from the voice of the main experts. Just think of what Massimo Galli, director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, said yesterday: “We will see many more deaths because certain processes are underway. The infections that have occurred in recent days produce effects and we are dangerously close of the threshold of 4,000 patients in resuscitation. But unfortunately the intensive therapies empty more with deaths than with cures “.
Even in Italy yesterday the highest point in the number of deaths in this second wave was reached, namely 753 (the record dates back to March 27 with 969 victims). Case fatality also remains high, that is, the ratio of deaths to the number of positive cases, probably due to the many now escaping follow-up.
The Sicilian figure is even more worrying because even in spring there were not so many deaths in a single day. And it’s not just about elderly patients: Gianni Russo, an intensive care nurse at the “Guzzardi” hospital in Vittoria, was 58 years old, while the brigade chief of the Partinico carabinieri, Nicandro Di Santo, was barely 55 years old. and died of complications due to Covid. A priest also died at 55 in Palermo: it is Father Girolamo Casella, who died of a heart attack caused by the Corononavirus. First a deacon, then a priest of the Servants of the Poor of Blessed Giacomo Cusimano, he taught religion at the Lombard Radice Institute. Don Casella, admitted to the Civic Hospital since last Saturday, was ordained a priest on September 24, by the Bishop of Caltagirone, Calogero Peri. The news of his death, spread on social media by the archdiocese, was greeted with emotion by those who knew him, particularly in Kalsa.
Another priest from La Boccone del Povero in via Pindemonte in Palermo also appears on the list of victims, who also died at the Covid-19 Civic Hospital, which aggravated the already precarious clinical situation. This is Father Gerardo Garofalo, 77, who passed away last Friday.
In Palermo we also mourn the death of Giovanni Marino, 80 years old, a physical education teacher at the Liceo Classico Umberto and a great lover of sports and tennis, in particular.
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