Coronavirus, today’s news: “We need a total lockdown”

All the main news from Italy and the world related to the Covid-19 emergency.

19.37 – “We need a total blockade, across the country”

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Asking, in the light of the data, especially those of hospital admissions and intensive care, is the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli, from the Facebook page of the same Federation. Anelli then published an interview with Ansa: “With a trend unchanged, in 30 days we will have to deal with a large number of deaths. Considering this week’s data as a typical trend and if we project it without anticipating further increases, the situation in a month will be dramatic and therefore we must immediately resort to a total closure. Either we block the virus or it will block us because the signals tell us that the system does not hold and even the now yellow Regions will soon find themselves in the same condition as the areas most affected “and” with the current average, in a month we would reach 10,000 more deaths “. The total closure, says Anelli, “is a strong request, but very worrying signals are coming from various parts of the country. The situation seems to increasingly highlight a national health system on the ropes.” The numbers “tell us that this week we had an average of 1000 hospitalized per day; this means that, if the trend does not change, in the next 30 days, for the Immaculate Conception, we will have another 30 thousand hospitalized, which will be added to the 26 thousand current “. . Also this week, “we also had an average of 116 hospitalized per day in intensive care, so that in 30 days, always in trend without changes, we will have another 3,000 people in intensive care, for a total of more than 5,000 patients in these rooms. 5,000 was the maximum number of beds available in intensive care units last March, and if it is true that the government has increased the number of beds to about 11,000, it is also true that today we do not have enough doctors and nurses to manage these additional places. “The other” great risk is that the rest of the medical interventions will stop. “During the past week, deaths averaged 338 per day; in a month, with this average, we would reach about 10 thousand deaths.” Then the system “It cannot hold, also because the effects of the new restrictive measures will not be seen in 20 days.” And in January “the cases of seasonal flu will increase significantly and it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to manage the two emergencies together. The NHS jumps “.

18.28 – Roma and Fiorentina: ASL blocks the

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There are no trips with the respective national teams for Roma players. After the intervention of the Florence ASL, also in Rome the competition ASL blocked any trip of the Giallorossi selection in compliance with the current protocol. In recent days, Roma have communicated the positivity of Bosnian Dzeko and out of respect for the “bubble” the Giallorossi will remain in Italy. Bryan Cristante, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Leonardo Spinazzola and Gianluca Mancini had been called up for the national team, in addition to the foreigners. The same goes for the 13 Fiorentina players called up by their respective national teams: they won’t be able to answer the call either. The ASL of Tuscany has not authorized his departure to reach the various retreats. The reason is that the viola team, due to the positivity found in José Callejón in the tests carried out at the end of last week, is currently “in the bubble” and this situation will last at least until next Sunday (Click here to read more).

18.15 – Viminale, almost 1000 fines

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The Ministry of the Interior informs that in relation to the controls to the anti-COVID19 measures carried out yesterday, the police forces verified 69,111 people, 944 sanctioned, 110 denounced; 11,654 shops or businesses, 139 sanctioned owners, 52 closures.

16.30 – Hospitals to the limit

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Intensive care, the critical threshold of 30% has been exceeded. According to the findings of Agenas, the national regional health services agency, the percentage of resuscitation beds occupied by Covid patients has exceeded the 30% threshold, considered a wake-up call. But in some cases the situation is already more serious: in Piedmont we are at 46%, in Lombardy at 49%, in Umbria at 51%, in the province of Bolzano at 55%.

4.15pm – South Tyrol Red Zone

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South Tyrol becomes a red zone. “The epidemiological trend with the constantly growing number and the increasing number of municipalities declared a red zone requires it. Now it is useless to apply two different measures,” are the words of Governor Arno Kompatscher, interviewed by ANSA. The governor will sign the ordinance in the next few hours. Transfers between municipalities will be granted only for reasons of work, health, study and urgent emergencies.

11:00 am – Positive Boer (Rome)

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After the new round of tampons carried out yesterday by Roma before leaving for Genoa, the third goalkeeper (and Primavera goalkeeper) Pietro Boer, who left retirement in Liguria and returned to Rome, was positive. With him also Tommaso Milanese, his roommate, who is negative but as a precaution, he also returned to Rome.

10:00 am – Gagliardini and Radu (Inter) negative

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Negative buffer for Gagliardini and Radu. The two Inter players have retired from the team. So I’m available for every game (they go to the bench).

9 am – New record in Russia

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In Russia, a new record of coronavirus infections was registered, 20,498 in the last 24 hours. The local health authorities have made it known, also speaking of 286 deaths related to the infection in one day. Thus, the total number of infections amounts to 1,774,334, while the total number of victims is 30,537.

8 am – United States, impressive numbers

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The United States registered 126,742 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a further record of daily infections that exceed the threshold of 100,000 for the fourth consecutive day, and for the third day that of 120,000. This is what emerges from the Johns Hopkins University data, cited by CNN. At least 1,040 people have died in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 237,113.