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With the increase in positive cases registered in recent days, also Rome is planning one strategy to stop the virus and prevent a second, serious wave of infections in the fall.
The scene seen on the outskirts of Rome, where the presence of clusters has transformed palaces, residential complexes and districts into red zones, could also become a reality in the capital. On the other hand, the president of the Zingaretti Region and the Lazio Health Minister, Alessio D’Amato, have not ruled out the possibility of imposing mini-confinement in Rome and where the alert is triggered.
Currently Lazio, with 210 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours (110 of which in Rome) is the second most infected Italian region after Campania. Lombardy, Veneto and Piedmont also passed, regions most affected at the beginning of the epidemic.
New blockade: Rome has a plan for autumn
The Region has announced the concrete possibility of localized closures to limit outbreaks that in a large and populated city like Rome could cause significant damage.
With schools reopening, many people returning to the office, flu season at the door, and the fall just beginning, the situation needs to be kept under control. Even in Rome, what happened at the gates of the capital could be replicated, from Nerola to Rocca di Papa in Campagnano. the plan for the fall closure in Rome and the province would be ready and tested for seven months. The Region has studied the plan in detail.
What foresees
The first group report comes from workgroup coordinated by the Department of Health and attended by representatives of the Local Health Authorities, hospitals, civil protection and law enforcement agencies, who transmit it to the Prefecture.
From here the alarm sounds that starts thepolice intervention (police, carabinieri, finance, traffic police, army …) that close and monitor risk areas; block entrances and exits and ensure that the rules about displacements They are respected, fines to offenders.
Depending on the severity of the scenario, measurements such as closure of business activities, quarantine for citizens and curfew for locals.
In addition to mini-lock, Rome’s plan to manage outbreaks and prevent a boom in infections also includes intensive monitoring and contact tracking by health personnel.
Improved beds
Meanwhile, steps are being taken to strengthen the hospitals as during the confinement. Beds for Covid patients are returning to the figures of last March (at that time there were 2,000): ready 1,127 new posts in hospitals to which they are added 500 places in hotels for asymptomatic positives, discharged patients and people waiting for a tampon who must remain isolated to avoid infecting family and friends.
The autumn plan for the Lazio region also foresees a intensive care improvement and, in case of greater need, the Region is ready to activate new beds in the structures that no longer fall within the Covid center.
As explained by the medical director of Spallanzani Francesco Vaia to Delivery courier, the bed system in the Region is accordion. This means that in the event of an intense resumption of the epidemic, efforts will be made not to weaken the structures that provide assistance to non-Covid patients. Today the numbers are much lower and we are better prepared, Dr. Vaia specifies, but everything possible must be done to prevent the health system from getting into difficulties as during the first phase of the pandemic.
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