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The virus is besieging large cities. “Some metropolitan areas like Milan, Naples It is probable Rome, are already out of control from the point of view of containing the pandemic, they have too high numbers to be handled with the traditional test and trace method. And, as the history of previous epidemics teaches, when it cannot be contained, mobility must be mitigated or blocked, “he says. Walter Ricciardi, professor of general hygiene at the Catholic University and advisor to the Ministry of Health. “We are in Venice as in 1400, despite the technologies that we have at our disposal.”
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Then the great enemy was the plague, today the coronavirus: in the province of Milan a week ago there were 1,032 new infected, yesterday 1,858. There is also an alarm in Naples, with 1,406 more positive swabs in one day, while Rome resists better although it is observed especially with 806 new cases: “We expect an increase in the Rt transmissibility index, especially in the provinces, Rome is holding out”, explains the counselor regional health department, Alessio D’Amato.
The hospital network has entered the seventh phase and approximately 3,000 places reserved for Covid patients are planned. The virus migration map says that, at this time, it is the metropolis that must be contained. 53% of the total number of infected people is concentrated in Milan, Rome and Naples: 83,710 in the three cities out of a total of 155,442 cases. “It is inevitable. They are the metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of inhabitants, with the consequent problems of distance in public transport and in nightclubs. We have already seen it in Paris, Madrid and London”, reflects the professor. Claudio Mastroianni, director of the complex infectious diseases operating unit Umberto I.
“We know how to intervene, we hope that the measures implemented are sufficient. But I think further tightening is inevitable. ‘ To understand the severity of this second wave, it is enough to analyze the progression in Campania in the first 21 days of October: 17,743 positive swabs, more than the sum of those infected from February to last September. «In Naples 5,622 people are in home isolation because they are positive, 178 hospitalized and another 6,023 at home under surveillance: more than 11,823 Neapolitan citizens. In August there were 502 », lists Ciro Verdoliva, director of ASL Napoli 1.“ We are very worried. And without De Luca’s order we would be more. Otherwise, we would not be preparing 72 intensive care places in the Covid center of the Hospital del Mar by reorganizing the wards ».
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The reopening of primary schools on Monday, October 26 runs a great risk, while from today in Lombardy the evening curfew is activated and from next week distance learning for secondary schools, Rome is preparing to a lockout at midnight. “At this point it is necessary to resort to more drastic measures, those implemented are not enough,” he warns. Massimo Andreoni, director of the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases. “And other beds are needed immediately, within two to three weeks the number of Covid patients will be difficult to manage if we remain at the current level of disposable income in intensive care units and dedicated ordinary wards.”
A situation of “suffering is also beginning to register in Rome – Andreoni points out – In Tor Vergata, where I work, the situation is complicated and we are opening departments”. As for Lombardy, already in full emergency, the Fiera hospital is back in operation with the first 153 beds for intensive care. Right now, says Mayor Giuseppe Sala, “there is an increase in hospitalizations in Lombardy, except in three provinces: Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona, because there is a kind of immunity. But what price did they pay to get there? Milan cannot, due to its size it would have a big problem. When the virus breaks into a big city, it has a disturbing effect. ‘
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