Regions divided into three areas, the Fontana attack: “It is unacceptable to trust data from 10 days ago.” But even today 8 thousand cases in Lombardy

The truce between the government and the Regions lasted a few hours new dpcm. The object of the clash is once again the division of the Italian territory into three risk zones: yellow, orange and red – which must be established by Ministry of Health after consulting with interested governors. Over the course of the night, the regional presidents had written a letter to the executive, harshly criticizing the decision to take the last word on the restrictions and asking “transparency“On epidemiological data. Then the tones were silenced, after the provision was written in black and white that everything must happen in concert with the local authorities and with both Minister Speranza and the Minister of Regional Affairs. Francesco Boccia they provide greater tranquility. But now the governor of Lombardy Attilio fontana he attacks the Palazzo Chigi again, arguing that the classification of the Regions will be carried out on the basis of data dating from “about 10 days ago”. “This is unacceptable,” he thundered. “Evaluations must be carried out on the basis of data updated to date, taking into account the restrictions already adopted in Lombardy, dei sacrifices already done by the Lombards in these 10 days to contain the spread of the virus, and of which we recorded a first improvement“.

The crux of the matter concerns itself epidemic curve analysis On which the assessments of the Ministry of Health will be based to establish which Regions should be included in the yellow zone, which in the orange zone and for whom, on the other hand, as of Friday lock light planned for the red band. The epidemiological indicators taken into consideration are 21, but according to Fontana “the last evaluation of the monitoring cabin” was carried out more than a week ago. It remains to be seen whether the Executive will rely on these data to trigger the new restrictions or not: the ministry has announced that the decision will be made on Friday. In terms of current infections, Lombardy almost ranks 8 thousand more cases is a positivity rate still close to 20%, with 97 deaths. In slight decline the Rt index (a 1.6). The head of Pirellone, in his speech on Facebook, therefore asks to update the estimates “before it is established” where to place Lombardy. Between the lines of the post, Fontana also reiterates one of the objections to the dpcm raised by the Regions overnight. “Now it is an ordinance of the Ministry of Health, no from the regional administration, which, again from the evaluation of the data by the CTS, must establish in which band each Region is located ”.

The governors, in fact, immediately after the publication of the draft of the provision had denounced that they had been “empowered“Of his powers. An accusation that came at the end of days of controversy, with the center-right presidents immediately aligned to avoid closing their cities with regional ordinances. But later they insisted on the need to “establish a contradictory for the review of the data with the Prevention departments of the regional health services before the adoption of the lists of areas at risk. The president of the Higher Institute of Health also spoke about it. Silvio Brusaferro, according to which “the data is validated by everyone and shared with the ministry.” Not to mention that the Regions themselves are also part of the national control room for monitoring Covid.