Covid and Christmas. “After December 4, bars and restaurants open” – Chronicle



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Christmas goal. The road is bumpy, but the removal of some of the restrictions in place today is possible, and Prime Minister Conte believes in it. For this it had prepared a range of three levels, which graduate the slack. But it will not be “a free den for all.” “If the curve goes down in the coming weeks – said the coordinator of CTS Agostino Miozzo in Porta a Porta – we have to forget a traditional Christmas. We can imagine a more peaceful Christmas, more linked to family traditions, but the trend of the pandemic it’s still very intense. ” After December 4, however, he added, “stores and restaurants will probably be able to return to semi-normalcy if they respect those rules. It will be almost normal, not free for everyone.” Coronavirus, the newsletter of November 19 Covid regions, colors and parameters …

Christmas goal. The road is bumpy but the removal of part of the restrictions today it is possible and Prime Minister Conte believes in it. For this he prepared a three-story fan, which graduate loosening. But it will not be “a free den for all.” “If the curve goes down in the coming weeks – said Porta to Porta Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of CTS – we have to forget about a traditional christmas. We can imagine a calmer Christmas, more linked to family traditions, but the trend of the pandemic continues to be very strong ”. After December 4However, he added, “stores and restaurants will probably be able to return to a semi-normal situation if they respect those rules. It will be almost normal, not all for free.”

Coronavirus, the newsletter for November 19

Covid regions, colors and parameters do not change. But the government opens

I yesterday’s data, 34,328 cases (+2,047), with 234 thousand swabs (+26 thousand), give a positive rate in the total tests of 14.6% (-0.8%) and 27.6% (0.4%) for positives were never tested. The curve continues to slowly decline, as does intensive care, with ‘only’ 58 patients increasing compared to +120 the day before, and hospitalized with symptoms (+430 instead of +538). Not so the dead, yesterday +753 (Tuesday +731) “which – observes Professor Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director of Spallanzani and member of the CTS – are related to patients infected three weeks ago, so that is the figure that will improve in last place”. . The signal is in the right direction but it is still too weak.

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“Today we have to lower the curve, let’s focus on this and then we will see how Christmas will come, which will surely not be like the others” repeats the Ministry of Health. Roberto Speranza. “Making closings – he reiterated yesterday – is the premise to start up again”.

“My fear – observes the governor of Piedmont Alberto Cirio – It is Christmas: we want to live it normally but if we imagine ourselves doing it as someone lived the summer, in January we would return to the crisis. “” Too many catastrophists – responds the governor of Liguria, Giovanni toti -, we will do everything possible to have a normal Christmas, obviously in safety ”. A chimera? The CTS technicians have a beacon: the data of the 21 indicators. That will not be changed but it could ‘weigh’ differently to accommodate the requests of the Regions. There will be a Government-Regions meeting on this topic.

“It is too early to make predictions about Christmas,” Ippolito observes, “and we must not proclaim victory with a slight drop in the curve. We must have numbers that fall, not just growth that falls. A relaxation of the measures is possible, even if It is the decision of the politicians and not for us, but it can only be hypothesized based on indicators that are clearly improving. The example of Switzerland, which today has saturated intensive care, should be a warning. Let’s see how the data goes, in first place those of the Rt index, of new cases and hospitalizations, and then, in early December, we will be able to decide what to do ”.

For him intensive therapy data from the Health Services Agency (Agenas), showing 15 regions and the two autonomous provinces above the critical threshold established by the Ministry of Health at 30% (with the national value at 42%), connected to the percentage of beds occupied by Covid patients in medical departments (51%) nationwide, also in this case exceeding the ‘critical threshold’ set at 40%, are an alarm. “The pressure on hospitals – admits Ippolito – remains high.” Meanwhile, tomorrow there will be new weekly monitoring data and the control room could propose to bring Liguria and Puglia to the red zone and Veneto to the orange zone. Possible from Friday 20 a relaxation for Lombardy, Piedmont and Calabria, possibly with differentiation between provinces, in accordance with the Dpcm.

Differentiation, defended by several governors, is possible, it is observed in the ministry, but only ‘to go down’. Alla Salute in favor of “provincial areas” is, among others, the deputy minister Pierpaolo sileri. The governor of Puglia has already called for the provinces of Foggia and BarlettaAndriaTrani to become a red zone. Hope to be satisfied.

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