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ROME. Infections in our country will also continue to decrease for three days, but to scare us more and more are the great patients from Europe, Spain and France. With regard to which the quarantine obligation at the European level could be activated soon, as Germany urges. And that Italy looks favorably on. It is no coincidence that yesterday the governors of Liguria and Piedmont, Giovanni Toti and Alberto Cirio, picked up the phone to call Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and ask for an urgent summit on the measures to be taken towards the two countries.
Even if it is the flow of transalpines that border the two regions the most worrying. Today, to enter both Spain and France, you need the buffer that proves the state of negativity. But the Ordinance issued last week by Minister Speranza leaves 72 hours to take the test after crossing the border. And as experience teaches, many evade obligation. So in the meantime, Ventimiglia’s mayor, Gaetano Scullino, has enacted an ordinance of his own, forcing anyone to move around town to keep the mask on day and night. Since there is no mattress requirement for cross border travelers going to France or Monte Carlo and French people staying in Italy for a maximum of 24 hours.
De Luca also made his move with an ordinance that tracks anyone who lands in Capodichino from countries at risk, including France. With the obligation to show the certificate of negativity if the swab is already done, or request it on the spot from the ASL. But a more drastic solution is being sought at the European level. The question was posed by Angela Merkel, given that Germany holds the scepter of the EU presidency.
The proposal, to be shared by all, French and Spanish at the helm, is to prescribe the quarantine already planned for non-European countries, even for those of the old continent with an excessively high incidence of cases. This limit could be set at 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This would raise the red disk for Spain, which is at 320, putting France on alert, at an altitude of 235 but with the epidemic curve rising out of control. At the end of the day, it is up to the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, to think of a hypothesis of confinement for places where the ceiling of 500 cases is exceeded. However, what epidemiologists consider too high.
Fortunately, Italy has 36 and yesterday the cases dropped from 1,766 to 1,494, but with far fewer buffers: just 55,000 compared to more than 87,000 the day before and 104,000 on Saturday. And in any case, after four months, for the first time, we have more than 50,000 people positive for Covid. That “attention, seriousness and prudence” is needed, as Minister Speranza still reminds us, among other things recommended by the new rebound in hospitalizations. Yesterday 131 more in ordinary wards and 10 in intensive care. Numbers that don’t have to impress, but do suggest keeping your guard up.
