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by Daniele Bovi
The meeting at the Regional Civil Protection Operations Center lasted many hours on Friday, where they discussed some of the measures to try to contain what, during the weekly briefing, the extraordinary commissioner for the emergency Antonio Onnis called “a tsunami”. . Among the measures is also the agreement with the regional associations of hoteliers, based on which up to 18 structures can be made available to be used as Covid hotels. Here, people who do not have available houses where the necessary isolation can be guaranteed could be accepted during the quarantine period. On the same front, meanwhile, the Deruta hotel agreement should close on Saturday, where about 50 places will be installed.
SHOPPING CENTERS AND SUPERMARKETS CLOSED
The army During the day there was also talk of the arrival, in Umbria, of the Army teams (doctors, nurses and drivers) who will install three crossing points, that is, those in which a swab can be made without letting them go down. from the car. Throughout Italy, the Ministry of Defense announced the dispatch of 1,400 soldiers, divided into 200 teams, with the aim of carrying out some 30,000 swabs a day: “The prisons,” says Minister Lorenzo Guerini, “will consist of a doctor, two nurses, two drivers and two carabinieri or state police personnel, and it will be activated in 24-48 hours, arriving at the places indicated by the Ministry of Health, where the intervention will be necessary ”.
Operators and numbers To “guarantee the operation of the search and contact management system”, that contact tracing that has now been blown up after being overwhelmed by numbers, the head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli with a notice ordered the dispatch of 1,500 health workers (“Identified among qualified non-specialized doctors, nurses, health aides, prevention technicians in the environment and in the workplace” and also students enrolled in the third year) and 500 administrative staff; Health workers are divided according to the population and Umbria must touch 22. On Friday during the meeting, the issue raised hours ago by many mayors was also addressed, that of the discrepancy between the numbers on the Region’s board and the communiqués to the Municipalities, which are used by mayors to sign orders by default; Depending on what emerged, the first citizens will have direct access to the data.
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