[ad_1]
Florence, February 24, 2021 – With yesterday’s 824 new cases, Tuscany exceeds 150,000 infections, 150,556 to be precise, since the beginning of the epidemic. That is, for a year: on the night of February 24 to 25, 2020, the confirmation of the positivity of patient 1 in the region arrived, a 63-year-old entrepreneur who, he explains, would have caught the virus in the center of Florence, at that time full of people and tourists.
Nardella: “Red Tuscany? No, it’s still orange”
Red Tuscany? No, “most likely it will stay in the orange zone“. The mayor of Florence is convinced of this, Darius Nardella, after last night he met with Governor Eugenio Giani “to take stock,” he reveals to ‘Controradio’. Where he observes: “The situation must be kept absolutely under control”, but “there has been a leak of news” about the passage of the Tuscany in red band. It is not like that: we must be prudent, realistic, but not alarmist either ”. Nardella, therefore, relaunches the mechanism of the ‘micro’ red zones: “Circumscribing especially exposed areas can be a good alternative” with respect to the entrance of the entire region to the zone with greater restrictions.
From Thursday February 25 chickpea flour cake, in the province of Livorno, becomes Red zone. After the numerous infections in one of the main urban rsa (none of the elderly are serious) and the infections in the school environment, Mayor Lippi in concert with the Region has launched the red zone. This until Thursday March 3. A way to mitigate the contagion that is beginning to be worrying in its spread. The first citizen
Some provinces, like Empoli and Siena, risk the red zone due to the increase in infections, although Tuscany in general should, next week, keep the orange and not slide totally towards the red. This is what the figures say about the incidence of infections in the population.
Tuscany Complete Newsletter February 23
Restaurateurs and merchants, new event
Merchants complain an alternative strategy in the management of the Coronavirus emergency in the face of closures. And in Tuscany They are preparing to ask for it publicly with a demonstration organizing a long, immobile and silent “human chain” in all the provincial capitals on March 1. The architects of the initiative are the regional sections of Confcommercio and Confesercenti. Its objective is to be able to bring entrepreneurs, freelancers and collaborators, but also ordinary citizens, to the streets and squares of Tuscany. Standing next to each other but respecting social distancing, the participants will carry some explanatory posters.
Giani renews the appeal to prudence
With another 20 deaths, the total number of Covid patients who have lost their lives stands at 4,582. However, the rate of positives falls – to 4.2% compared to 8.4% yesterday – but hospitalizations continue to increase: in total there are 983, 31 more than yesterday (+ 3.3%), of which 159 in intensive care (4 more than yesterday, plus 2.6%). Meanwhile, the Tuscan governor Eugenio Giani Today he explained: “You have to be very alarmed, with great care to respect, because it is decisive, the spacing, the hygiene, the mask, because if the contagion increases, the measures would tighten again. Today we are in the orange zone, I cannot predict with certainty what will happen in the control room on Friday, but the first elements of evaluation of the data that we will provide this week lead us to remain in the orange zone ”.
Vaccini, Tuscany third
According to data from the Ministry of Health, if more than 5 million doses of vaccine have arrived in Italy, Tuscany ranks third among the most virtuous regions in terms of administration (with 80.9%): first the Aosta Valley which has 91.9% of the available doses were administered, followed by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (86.3%).
In March 400 thousand doses arrive. “We will use them all immediately”
“By March, we will be delivered 400,000 doses and we will administer these 400,000 doses – about 250,000 Pfizer, less than 100,000 AstraZeneca and 50,000 Moderna – as soon as they are delivered. We expect April and May to see a further jump in supplies. and we are preparing to have more relevant actions than we are supporting at this stage. ”This was stated by the regional councilor for the right to health, Simone Bezzini, speaking at a distance to the regional council about the vaccination campaign in Tuscany. HERE THE ARTICLE
“In Tuscany, outbreaks must be managed with specific measures”
The concerns of the Red zone They do not seem as strong as a few days ago but we want to prevent and for this there are clearly gods sprouts in Tuscany»To be managed with specific measures, “Especially where they are variants which are worrisome due to the speed of transmission of the infection ”. The president of Tuscany said so, Eugenio Giani. HERE THE ARTICLE
Giani: “The data that we will provide leaves us an orange zone”
I certainly cannot predict what will happen in the control room on Friday, but the first elements of evaluation of the data that we will provide this week lead us to stay in the orange zone ”. HERE THE ARTICLE
In Siena, middle and high schools closed until March 3
They close a Siena, starting tomorrow, February 24, until next Wednesday March 3 the middle and high schools of the municipal term. The decision was announced this morning by the mayor Luigi De Mossi after a meeting with the councilor for social policies Francesca Appolloni and the councilor for education Paolo Benini. TO decision came to the light of the data relating to the spread of the covid-19 infection among desks, among students and teaching and auxiliary staff, and which has led to the mass in quarantine of 31 middle and upper classesI. HERE THE ARTICLE
© All rights reserved
