Taranto towards the blockade of the city starting at 18: “Too many infections, the situation is unsustainable”

Too many people on the streets and health situation on the verge of collapse, as well Taranto closes. The mayor established it Rinaldo melucci according to the associations of Merchants: Melucci will sign today aorder to toughen anti-contagion rules: i shops they will close at 18 and from that moment the curfew for citizens. On the schedule, however, there is still some room for comparison that you could make emergency shutdown citizen in twenty: The election, however, will arrive during the day and will be effective from Friday.

The Ionian capital is the first municipality of the Puglia to further toughen the rules imposed by the latter Dpcm. The cause is in the number of infections: not even in the months of March and April Taranto has reached such high peaks. In fact, in the first blockade, the city of the two seas had never registered a number of positives greater than 10 units, in the last positive weeks they grow too fast. Only on Wednesday were registered, in the province, 153 new cases. And that is why Mayor Melucci has called a meeting with the mayors of the province, the dg Asl Stefano rossi, the president of the Region Michele Emiliano and the regional health advisor Pierluigi lopalco: the first citizens agreed on the serious situation of the territory while DG Rossi tried to reassure them by stating that the situation is really under control.

An attempt obviously not enough given that shortly after the mayor of Taranto with his development councilor Fabrizio Manzulli they met with the representatives of the traders fearing the hypothesis of new restrictive measures. “We register the acceptance of most of the acronyms to our proposal – explained the commissioner shortly after the meeting – We are moving towards a scheme that will intervene in opening hours with the aim of further reducing the possibility of meeting. It’s not easy for anyone, but I can say that even traders have understood that a new setting today is the only way to be able to restart in a few weeks. I thank you because you are aware that the progress of the epidemiological curve it is no longer sustainable and requires courageous decisions ”.

And that the situation is particularly serious arises from the decision to transfer the nurses of the 118 in service in several municipalities of the province inMoscati Hospital from Taranto, now Covid hub: In the provincial garrisons, therefore, the 118 vehicles remained operational, keeping only the driver and the lifeguard on board. An election that generated controversy to which the ASL responded by explaining that “the provision was valid for only 8 days” and that “the legislator does not provide for the obligation to board the 118 emergency vehicles or doctor nor the figure of the nurse “, but above all that” none patient He was left without rescue interventions ”. In short, the situation is delicate and the climate tense. The City Council of Taranto, therefore, has decided to act before it is too late. And it is almost certain that other municipalities in the province will soon.