Covid, undersecretary Merlo and deputy Lorenzin positive: postponements and evidence in the Chamber. Four cases for the Consultation: skipping the hearing

After the two cases of contagion between the senators of the 5 star movement, today it’s your turn House of Representatives and to Constitutional court lock for swabs and controls. In fact, both the Undersecretariat of Foreign Affairs were positive in Covid Riccardo merlo that the deputy Pd Beatriz Lorenzin. Four infections were registered in the consultation and it was decided postpone public hearing October 6.

Checks in the house – As a first precautionary measure, the meeting of the House budget committee was postponed in the morning due to Lorenzin’s positivity. The dem deputy announced the contagion on Twitter: “Unfortunately, I tested positive for Coronavirus. Right now I have a slight fever and a sore throat, but they watch me and the situation is calm. I start the treatments. Thanks to the help of doctors and nurses, I am sure I will win! ”. Then he added: “It’s just a virus beast but if I am particularly attentive, I was infected. Being infected is easier than we think, “he always wrote on Twitter sending a hug” to all the other people who are in my condition right now: I have children and a negative husband, I have the problem of how to organize the family, isolation, quarantine … not easy for anyone. We all pay attention. “

But it’s not just the Budget Committee that has been subject to scrutiny: members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee are also undergoing a swab. The measure was necessary because the commissioners were in contact with Undersecretary Merlo. “I was probably infected by my driver, I had a fever and then I had it,” Maie’s Undersecretary of Foreign Relations told Ansa. Riccardo merlo, adding that his eight-year-old daughter also tested positive. “The first thing I did was warn Fassino,” chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Even in the car I always wear a mask, but the car is small. We should start doing like taxis, that is, putting a barrier between driver and passenger ”. According to sources close to Merlo, the undersecretary had the first symptoms on Thursday afternoon, after being on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee.

Consult: skip the public hearing – After the discovery of four positives in the Constitutional Court, it was decided to postpone the public hearing already scheduled for tomorrow, October 6 at the Palazzo della Consulta. This was established by a decree of the president Mario Rosario Morelli, after listening to the university. “The postponement – explains a note from the Council – was necessary as a precaution due to the prolonged time of the rhino-pharyngeal smears performed by judges and staff of the Constitutional Court, after the evaluation of four cases of infection by Covid 19 and in light of the guidelines that, as a prudential measure, recommend close contact with those who have tested positive for a 14-day fiduciary isolation, even when the result of their immunological test is negative. ”From the Palazzo della Consulta, he assures that“ in compliance with the aforementioned guidelines, the ordinary activities of the Constitutional Court and its offices continue ”.