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Covid-19 infections remain high: in the last twenty-four hours, 30,000 positives have been reached, with 208 deaths. The decrease in figures compared to the previous day should not lower our guard. The summits took place on Sunday, on the occasion of the issuance of the new Dpcm scheduled for the afternoon of Monday, November 2. What Should We Expect? Certainly, for now at least, the generalized lockdown, such as the one implemented last spring, remains excluded. However, the “tightening” of restrictions is inevitable.
Throughout the national territory, shops and commercial activities could be closed from 6 o’clock in the afternoon, with the obligation to remain at home, except for those who have to leave for work, health or emergency reasons, to be accredited with a specific self-certification. The Dpcm should be based on this line.
Dad for everyone in the “red” areas?
So, so-called mini-closures could be implemented: in fact, we think of almost total closures only in the new “red” areas, with the father than in territorial areas where there is a higher concentration of infections (even large centers, such as Milan, Turin, Genoa and Naples) could also be implemented in the first cycle and lower secondary school.
This was also understood by the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, during a summit with local authorities: “No single decision should be made about the school, but it should depend on the degree of RT (the infection index, ed) in each region “. .
The minister added: “The document of the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) and the monitoring system that we share with scientists and Regions has a series of hypotheses that should be triggered automatically. If a RT exceeds a certain level – today there are 11 Regions in 1,5 and 2 regions in 2 – then some measures already foreseen in the plan that we have shared and updated together should be activated automatically ”.
The mayors: planned closings
Even the mayors think so: according to them, the closures are clearly planned according to risk, as foreseen in the document of the Scientific Technical Committee shared by the Government and the Regions.
This document identified the different levels of the Rt index at which the different restrictions should be triggered: from distance learning at school to the reduction of hours of economic activities.
In this way – ANCI president Antonio Decaro explained – citizens engage in a transparent path and respect the restrictions: Rt index rises, limitations begin, Rt index falls, they loosen.
The regions, however, did not agree: the president of the Conference of Regions, Stefano Bonaccini, said that “national measures are also needed to show the unity of the institutional levels.”
De Luca: who controls the movements?
Even the president of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, supported Bonaccini’s line: “The logic of individual territories – allegedly said De Luca during the meeting with the ministers – does not make sense because the epidemic is generalized. We need to move in a unified way; territorial differentiations would lead to different reactions, in Campania they would not be understood and are impossible to propose because the levels of control do not exist ”.
De Luca recalls that “60% of the positives in Campania were in the metropolitan area of Naples (Asl 1 2 3); Mobility between municipalities is prohibited but there are no controls; we have some red zones but we decided with the prefects to preside over the central zones ”.
And again, during the meeting between the government and the Regions, the governor reportedly said that it is “disconcerting” that ideological statements are made about the school that are disconnected from scientific data.
Professor Galli: with schools open, more infections
And scientists seem to agree with him. “According to a study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases with # covid-19 data from 131 countries, reopening schools would increase the reproductive number of the infection by 18% in 14 days and 24% in 28 days“He wrote on Twitter Professor Massimo Galli, chief physician of the Sacco hospital in MilanHowever, it specifies that “the risks by school grade have not been calculated.”
Toti: crazy for leaving school and not thinking about the fragile
Yet even among governors there is no unity of purpose. “The country cannot afford a new blockade,” said the president of the Liguria region, Giovanni Toti, who in a note on social media suggests that measures should be taken in the most fragile category, the elderly.
“By more and truly protecting our elderly, the pressure on hospitals and the number of deaths would be infinitely less. It would be crazy to close so many Italians in their homes for whom Covid normally has mild results, block the country’s production, stop the school and the future of our young people and not consider any intervention on those who really risk it.
