Newsletter Coronavirus infections of Milan and Lombardy today Tuesday, October 21

The coronavirus infection curve has skyrocketed in Milan and Lombardy. On Wednesday, October 21, another 4,125 cases were detected throughout the Region (compared to 36,416 swabs). Between Milan and its interior, another 1,858 people tested positive for the virus who arrived from China (753 in the shadow of Madonnina). The data was disclosed by Civil Protection through the usual bulletin.

Intensive care units dedicated to covid patients are under increasing stress. In the last 24 hours there have been another 11 hospitalizations; in total, the resuscitation rooms are treating 134 patients. The pressure on the covid departments of health facilities continues to increase: in a single day the number of beds occupied by patients increased by 253 units for a total of 1,521 patients. There are a total of 1,655 people affected by covid-19 in health facilities in the Region.

The long death trail caused by the virus, which killed another 20 people in a single day, has yet to stop; the (official) total came to 17,123.

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The curfew

Curfew throughout Lombardy as of Thursday October 22, 2020. The draft order was signed in the last hours by Governor Attilio Fontana and Health Minister Roberto Speranza, sent to Anci and the mayors of the 12 capitals of Province that must evaluate it, establishes that from 11 at night until 5 in the morning of the next day we can only move for “proven work needs”, situations of need and urgency and health reasons. The doubts were thus overcome in the number 1 of Carroccio Matteo Salvini, who claimed to be against.

A self-certification will be required and the sanctions are those provided by the decree of March 25, 2020 on the coronavirus emergency. The curfew decision was made after examining the projections on infections that at the end of the month, if the trend does not change, could lead to up to 4,000 hospitalizations in normal wards and about 500 in intensive care.

Curfew in Lombardy: here is the text of the ordinance

Esperanza: “These are complicated hours. We are working with the Regions for new measures”

Meanwhile, the work of the government does not stop. “These are difficult hours. We are working with numerous Italian regions to try to build measures that are better able to respond to the challenge that the virus still brings us. We are trying to give a very clear message to public opinion as we have done in recent months: it is a game that requires the utmost attention, on the part of the central and regional governments and local autonomies, but also of the citizens who are involved. call to the maximum attention and to avoid as far as possible the possibilities of contagion ”. This was explained by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, when speaking at dawn on Wednesday in a video connected to the Assogenerici public assembly. “These are very delicate days, we are still in a complicated challenge, as can be seen from the figures that are growing in Italy and in the rest of European countries and the world,” added the minister.