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Editorial Board
08 December 2020 05:01
Yesterday, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese discovered during the Cabinet that she tested positive for the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus. Lamorgese is fine and asymptomatic, but the circumstances in which he learned of his positivity and what happened at Palazzo Chigi after the news spread must be recounted.
The escape from Palazzo Chigi after the positive test of Minister Lamorgese
The newspaper’s website made the public aware of Lamorgese’s positivity. Time, who, citing unspecified sources from the Interior Ministry, published the news while the CdM meeting was still in progress. Some news agencies wrote that the minister herself learned about the hyssop test (routine, since she does it as a precaution every ten days and so far all had given negative results), but this reconstruction has been denied by the Ministry of the Interior . , who stated that the minister was informed through a message sent by her trusted doctor. According to the reconstruction of some newspapers, Lamorgese would not have responded to a previous call from the doctor precisely because he arrived during the CdM.
As soon as she found out about the positivity, the minister left the council but now, as she says Republic, you will have to spend the next few days locked in the house. Chancellor Luigi Di Maio and Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede, considered Lamorgese’s “close contacts,” instead went into voluntary isolation because they were sitting closer to her. But everyone present will be swabbed, including Giuseppe Conte, while the seat of government is disinfected overnight. And they all left after the conclusion of the CoM in a very understandable stampede.
The leader of the Lega, Matteo Salvini, congratulated her in the afternoon, but added: “It will be necessary to clarify whether it is true that she disobeyed the provisions of her own government, going to the council of ministers without waiting for the result of the test, thus putting the health of other people. The minister who reviews and fines Italians who do not respect the rules cannot be the first to not respect them: in this case the resignation would be due “
The government closed due to Covid-19
From the Palazzo Chigi it was later specified that everyone present wore masks and that the room was later recovered although “total ventilation” is usually ensured. Lamorgese is in solitary confinement at her home, where she lives with her husband, who is a retired doctor. Il Fatto Quotidiano, however, specifies that yesterday’s CdM was very long, as it started at 11 and continued until the end of the afternoon with a break for lunch shortly after 14: most of the ministers ate the food brought from outside: “But we were divided into three different rooms, there was no gathering,” a government member assures the newspaper. While Conte, they specify from Chigi, “has always remained in place and at a prudent distance from others.” And this could create problems before Thursday’s European Council:
The fact is that the prime minister and the ministers spent hours in the same room with a positive person. A little apprehension is inevitable, while tomorrow the prime minister is awaited with a very delicate appointment such as communications to Parliament and the vote on the majority resolution, in view of his participation in the European Council on Thursday.
And it is necessary to understand if what happened in the CDM could be an obstacle for its presence both in Parliament and in the EU (where it could not be replaced).
The risk of having a government closed due to Covid-19 is now there.
