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Due to the epidemiological trend in South Tyrol, from Saturday 14 to Saturday 28 November, more restrictive measures will be activated for schools and economic activities. The provincial council decided them, following the development of infections and the occupation of places in hospital and intensive care.
Among the new measures adopted, there will be a return to distance education also for the first grades of middle school, while, For one week, face-to-face teaching in kindergartens and primary schools will be limited only to children whose parents perform essential jobs.
A debate was started with the social partners to review the current protocols and reduce contacts in the field of economic activities and in the world of work.
Starting at the end of the week, a wide-ranging antigen testing campaign will also begin throughout the province. It is planned to carry out 350,000.
“However, given the development of the epidemiological situation, this advance in restrictions may not be enough,” said Governor Arno Kompatscher.
Rapid scan antigen testing will begin in the last days of next week. The objective is to perform 350,000, to identify asymptomatic positives. Carpet of this size has been tested, for example, in Slovakia. ‘
What worries the president of South Tyrol, Arno Kompatscher, is not only the increase in infections, but also the critical situation of hospitals. “In intensive care we have 77 places just for Covid and more than half are occupied. We can increase them to 100, but the limit is that of medical and nursing staff – explained Kompatscher – Many people also need ordinary hospital care and we have about 400 places occupied in hospitals and private clinics. If we had had this situation in spring, we would not have endured “.
The new measures will be put into effect with an ordinance in preparation and will be in effect from Saturday 14 to Saturday 28 November. As for school, even sixth grade classes will switch to distance learning. However, for one week, early childhood, preschool and primary services will be reserved only for children whose parents perform essential jobs, for example in health or civil protection.
Economic activities will also be even more limited.
“We will try to further reduce social contacts in the economy and in the world of work – explained Kompatscher – but we want to safeguard productive activities for which we have already started to discuss with the social partners about the protocols to adopt. There are already some effective ones, but we can do more. The president of South Tyrol cited, for example, an intervention in the canteen services or in works where it is possible to complete the works in progress but not to start new ones unless they are urgent.
The last step will be the rapid scan antigen tests that will begin in the last days of next week.
The objective is to perform 350,000, to identify asymptomatic positives. “We have the experience of the municipalities of Monguelfo and Sesto, where with tests and school restrictions we have taken the Rt index from 1.5 to less than 0.50. After these tests, we plan to return to red zone levels the following week, “concluded Kompatscher.
Regarding the pandemic data, Alto Adige’s health authority reports another 5 deaths, which have occurred in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 350 since the start of the health emergency. The spread of the infection is also increasing: in 1,853 swabs evaluated, of which 792 new tests, 375 new positive cases were determined. The total number of people who tested positive stands at 14,084.
Furthermore, in the week between 2 and 8 November, the total number of new Codiv-19 infections in German schools in South Tyrol increased compared to the previous week, reaching 190. Another 8 cases in the same period, they have been registered in Ladino language schools.
The mayor of Bolzano, Renzo Caramaschi, has issued an ordinance according to which physical activity can be carried out at a maximum distance of 1,000 meters from the house.
A web application, developed by Bolzano programmer and photographer Walter Donegà, indicates with a click at home how far you can go during a jog or night walk with a circle on the digital map.
In Trentino, there are another six deaths from coronavirus with 243 new positive cases compared to the 2,388 swabs analyzed. Access to hospital wards is increasing: currently 318 patients are hospitalized, of which 28 are in resuscitation. About a quarter of those newly infected are over 70 years old. All the deceased were over 80 years old: the deaths occurred one in an RSA, three in the Trento hospital and another two in the Rovereto hospital.
The latest report from the Provincial Health Services Agency specifies that just over half of those newly infected have symptoms, but the number of subjects identified through contact tracing is also significant (117). The subjects classified as symptomatic pauci are 98 and they are followed up at home; Those related to the RSA system are 16 (only one symptomatic), a figure that includes both operators and guests.
The health authority also reports another 18 cases among children and young people of school age: the next few hours it will say if the respective classes will be in quarantine; yesterday there were 280. A positive signal comes from the discharge front: 400 patients cured, a figure that raises the total since the start of the pandemic to 7,998.
Between Alto Adige and Trentino, the Covid data gap is strong: the province of Bolzano registers 111.2 new positives per 100,000 inhabitants, while Trento only 47.7 (data as of November 9).
Only the Aosta Valley has a worse figure with 158.4 infections.
South Tyrolean immunologist Bernd Gaensbacher, interviewed by Ansa, comments: “The virus and people everywhere are the same, if we register significant differences in the data of patients, deaths and hospitalizations, then the causes must be sought in the local processes. decision-making “. According to Gaensbacher, “if the expected real blockade now takes place, which however will also have to be controlled, the situation will already be improving in two weeks. The damage to the economy will continue to be enormous.
If, on the contrary, we continue as before, the South Tyrol health system will soon cease to function. The immunologist reiterates the importance of rapid follow-up and rigid isolation.
“South Tyrol had to realize in advance that the system was not going to work. It is also the journalists’ fault that they did not put their finger on the sore, ”adds Gaensbacher. That the virus can be fought – in his opinion – “is demonstrated by Taiwan, which is a democracy and not a regime, and with 25 million inhabitants it only registers 580 cases and seven deaths.”
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