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me PPositive increases for the eighth consecutive week throughout the Peninsula, increasing the number of patients admitted to intensive care (254) and those in Covid wards (2,846). Abnormal increase, especially in Campania, which exceeds Lombardy.
The new cases registered by the bulletin of the Ministry of Health are 1,766 in the last 24 hours, compared to 1,869 the day before, but with almost 20,000 fewer tampons. The victims are 17 for a total of 35,835. The total number of infected people stands at 309,870. Only the Aosta Valley remains at zero, while in the South, Campania, the region with the highest number of Sars-cov-2 patients in Italy, is worrying: +245 for a total of 11,874. Naples was confirmed yesterday as the epicenter of the phenomenon. And the other regions are also equipped: mandatory use of masks outside the home if you are among strangers, registration and quick swabs for those who come from abroad, periodic checks on health personnel and fragile subjects, in addition to assembly prohibitions. These are the prevention measures in the Sicilian Region that have just been implemented.
Contagion levels have returned to the same level as at the end of the April blockade, but with a fundamental difference: today the swabs made by intercepting 6,700,432 cases amount to more than 11 million. Data that also concern scientists such as Giuseppe Ippolito, director of the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases: “The world is under control, the countries close to us too, Italy much less, but the increase in hospitalized patients and intensive care indicates that the virus has not We have to be careful because we can have an autumn like last spring. ”
If this season is going to be the repetition of the disastrous March, we will understand it at the end of October when a new peak is expected. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, the virus has reached the threshold of one million victims. There is always talk of official victims, because in reality the number could be higher due to the difficulty of accurately identifying all the deaths.
No doubt at least 998,000 people have died from the virus since the epidemic broke out in China last December. A (joyous) summer after France is forced to deal with 15,000 new cases every day. “The second wave is coming faster than we feared,” says the president of the French medical order, Patrick Bouet, concerned: “If there are no changes in 3-4 weeks we will have to face an epidemic for long months in autumn and winter.” with a health system unable to respond to all requests.
And to face the resurgence of the epidemic, there are also those who propose an “Advent closure”, from December 1 to 20, to save Christmas. The idea comes from two Nobel Prize-winning economists, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, to avoid a tighter shutdown after the holidays. Britain is also dealing with 6,000 new cases a day, so much so that the governments of Westminster, Wales and Scotland have introduced a curfew that forces businesses and nightclubs to close at 10pm. The prospect of being forced into another quarantine encounters growing opposition: after Saturday’s sit-in in London, it was the locals who took to the streets again to protest against the partial blockade imposed in various neighborhoods of the Spanish capital and its region to curb infections. Since September 21, around 850,000 people have not been able to leave it except for work, school or medical reasons, although they can move freely inside. Photocopies of protests in Israel, where a new blockade has been activated since September 18 after 3,000 infections a day.
