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Milan, November 15, 2020 – Creek slightly the number of new positive for Coronavirus in Lombardy, but also that of the swabs made. Yesterday they registered 8,129 contagion (413 are ‘weakly positive’ and 100 after serological tests) in 35,550 swabs. This is the 21.8% of new cases in Italy (37,255 in 24 hours). am increase in victims: 158, for a total of 19,186 deaths since the beginning of the emergency. Still high pressure on hospitals: others 16 hospitalizations in intensive care, 302 in other departments. The number of cured / discharged, today 2,961 (General total: 137,255, of which 7,591 discharged and 129,664 recovered) while the positives currently stand at 156,279.
Fontana: “Fiera Hospital is our strength”
To cope with the wave of hospitalizations to the hospital installed in Portello, around the end of next week may be available 20 more places than the present ones now to help particularly seriously ill patients with Covid-19. “The Fiera di Milano hospital, which I never wanted to build and use, which some consider useless today is our strong point. Thanks to the health and nursing staff of all Lombard hospitals who, moved by a spirit of solidarity, such as Dr. Malara (the anesthetist from Codogno who discovered patient 1, ed), they have come to carry out their mission even away from their teams, showing how the Lombard healthcare system is a great team. “ Attilio fontana on your Facebook profile.
Gallera: “Close to those who work in the fields”
But also others Health institutions They are doing everything possible to deal with this second wave, which is becoming more violent every day. “Another day spent in the hospitals of the critical areas of Lombardy. I have always thought that the duty of a councilor is to be close to those who work in the field, collect their requests and proposals, personally know the various critical issues in order to intervene to solve problems, “he wrote last night. Giulio Gallera, Lombard Wellness Advisor, on his Facebook profile. “Today I went to the Circolo di Busto Arsizio and Varese hospitals. I met primary care doctors, doctors, representatives of the nursing professions, I met with them,” he explained. “I participated in the work of the crisis units, I visited the emergency rooms and, in Varese, the departments of pulmonology and infectious diseases. I found professionals very prepared, humanly motivated despite the delicate situation. I wanted to personally thank you, on behalf of the Lombardy Region, ”concluded the commissioner.
Room: “The pandemic will last until the summer of 2021”
Speaking via streaming at IF Italian Festival – Milan Undistancing, the Festival of creativity in communication, Mayor Sala commented on the latest data on infections: “If they are still high in Milan, Rt is down and in my opinion it is without a doubt the effect of the measures taken (with the red zone, ed) and the behavior of the Milanese “.” It is probably a pandemic it will last a year and a half, it is plausible that it will end early next summer if vaccines arrive consistently. In 18 months there is little to say I stop, I do not stop, there is one to do intelligent management of things ”.
Lombardy Orange Zone (but only for infections)
In the ups and downs of contagion, Lombardy remains a “red zone”. Although, the control room of the Ministry of Health-Iss has assigned him a “technical” orange. The spread of the Rt virus in the first week of November raised the Covid assessment (the first ranking of the regions was based on data collected between October 19 and 25). An index which fell “about 1.5” from 2 unfulfilled in the last week of October; and Milan, which Rt 2 had already passed two weeks before (exactly one month after the opening of schools), was at 1.25 on Thursday. A “beautiful sign of encouragement” according to the ATS epidemiologists, and it ends there because keeping Lombardy (and most of Italy) in a high-risk range is the other macro indicator evaluated by the ministry’s experts, and updated, this, on Thursday: the Covid bed fill rate, 48% in wards and 58% in intensive care that yesterday rose again to 7,319 and 801 hospitalized respectively.
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