10.46 am – Sala quotes Rilke: Future enters us before it happens We live this period, we listen to this forced but necessary silence, to find the trace of the future, a future that we want but that we want to deserve. Rilke (the poet, ed) says: “The future enters us long before it happens.” Happy Easter. So the mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala, in a video on Facebook. a surreal Easter, if only because it belies the saying “Christmas with yours, Easter with whoever you want”. Not so much this year. But Easter has a profound meaning: resurrection, and Milan will also rise thanks to the protection of Saint Ambrose.
10.39 am – Alan Kurdi: intervention entrusted to the Immigration Department with the support of the Red Cross
(Fiorenza Sarzanini) At the request of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Paola De Micheli, the head of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli, has just signed a measure appointing the Department of Civil Liberties and the subject of implementation of the management intervention for immigration health, with support for Red Cross assistance for the 156 migrants on the Alan Kurdi ship near national territorial waters. This intervention was necessary following the refusal by Alan Kurdi to follow the procedure for the welcome in its flag country than Germany. The provision provides for the identification, with the technical support of the Coast Guard, of a ship on which, in the next few hours, migrants may be transferred for quarantine and checks by the Italian Red Cross and local health authorities. Humanitarian intervention cannot take place with the landing at Italian ports, due to the strong organizational and health pressure dictated by the emergency.
10.36 am – Parliament reopens on April 21st. And Johnson thanks the doctors
The British parliament will reopen its doors on April 21 to carry out its constitutional duties despite the emergency. This was announced by a spokesman for the leader of the Municipalities, Jacob Rees-Mog, according to reports from the Skynews. In this unprecedented crisis, various technological solutions have been studied and implemented which will be submitted to the Speaker, the government and the other parties, he explained underlining that it is important to find a solution that does not exclude any member of parliament. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has publicly expressed his gratitude to the doctors of St Thomas Hospital who have treated him in the last few days: I owe him my life.
10.15 am – In Israel more than 10 thousand cases
The number of positive coronavirus cases in Israel has risen to 10,878, while the deaths have so far been 103. The ministry of health has announced it. There are 174 seriously ill people, 3.3 percent less than yesterday. The number of patients in resuscitation who are now 123 is also decreasing, almost 7 percent less than yesterday. From today, the obligation to wear protective masks for those who go out into the street is imposed in Israel, even if the entire population is invited to stay at home.
10.10 am – In Russia record new cases in one day: 2.186
Russia records its daily record of infection: 2,186. A figure that brings the total number of patients to 15,770. There is also an increase in the number of victims from 24 to 130.
9.43 am – Mattarella al Papa: Thanks for words of life and hope
In thanking you warmly for the vibrant words of life and hope that Your Holiness has repeatedly addressed to Italy in the current difficult circumstances, I renew to you with sentiments of sincere consideration the most fervent wishes for Easter and for the now upcoming anniversary of St. George. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, wrote it in a message sent to Pope Francis on the occasion of Easter (here the message addressed to the nation by the Head of State on Saturday evening). In the silence of St. Peter’s Square and the empty Basilica of particularly strong people, the echo of His very high appeal echoed to abandon all illusory selfishness and to fully live the Easter message, courageously walking the “way of service”.
9.34 am – In Milan 14,413 checks and 564 penalties
Law enforcement officers yesterday checked 14,413 people in Milan and sanctioned 564 of them as part of the checks to contain the spread of the coronavirus. 3 people were reported for false reporting or for failing to comply with the provisions against the spread of the virus. The Prefecture announced in a press release. 3,067 businesses were also checked and 21 owners were reported.
9.20 am – Von der Leyen: Old people isolated until the end of the year
Older people may have to remain isolated until the end of the year to avoid any risk of contracting the coronavirus. The President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen said this in an interview with the German newspaper Bild on newsstands today. I know how difficult it is that isolation is a burden but a matter of life or death. We must be disciplined and remain patient, he stressed, also inviting us to wait and book summer holidays. And he concluded: I am ready to act, if the measures taken in Hungary exceed the measure, referring to the full powers that Premier Viktor Orban has had from Parliament to deal with the coronavirus.
8.51 am – Indonesia, limits on transport to end Ramadan
To limit the spread of the virus as much as possible, Indonesia has imposed new rules for public transport in view of the end of Ramadan which will bring about 75 million people to travel from big cities to villages. As we read on Guardian, buses, trains, planes and ships can only have half of the seats reserved, maximum two people in the car and one in the motorbike. The Ministry of Health also asked public transport operators to measure passenger temperatures and imposed on stations, ports and airports to provide travelers with hand sanitizers.
8.30 am – Gates, global strategy and more funds for vaccine
Although wealthy nations will be able to slow the spread of the disease in the coming months, Covid-19 could hit again if the pandemic spread to other areas of the world. Bill Gates wrote it in an article in Corriere della Sera. One part of the planet could infect the other on several occasions: only a matter of time. For this we desperately need a global strategy, aware that the ways of fighting the virus will have to change with the evolution of the pandemic, underlines the founder of Microsoft, according to which there are at least three measures that the heads of government especially those of the G20 can adopt without wasting time.
8.10 am – In China, no deaths but 99 new cases
China reported 99 more coronavirus cases, up from 46 announced the previous day. The authorities have specified that the count refers to the data updated at midnight on Saturday (18 in Italy) and 97 of the new 99 patients are Chinese citizens from abroad.
8.06 am – Gdf seizes protection devices in Palermo
Non-compliant protective devices have been seized by the Guardia di Finanza in Partinico (Palermo), as part of checks on measures to contain the epidemic. The material was in a hardware store, where in total almost 53 thousand non-compliant items were seized between personal protective equipment, pyrotechnic artifices, household materials and tools.
7.41 am – Landini: Liquidity to businesses, but not to layoffs
To think that simply passing the night and then everything will return as before would be the most serious mistake. We must use this time to define new organizational and safety methods: to change not only the way we work, but also that of going to work, all according to the protection of health and a new social and development model. The secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini says it to the Corriere della Sera. And he adds: We ask that liquidity be tied to the commitment not to lay off, not to relocate, and introducing control systems on legality.
7.20 am – In Germany another 129 dead (but the infections are decreasing)
The health authorities in Germany record 2,821 other cases of contagion, which bring the total number of patients to 120,479. Data released by the Robert Koch Institute show a drop, the second after four days of growth, compared to 4,133 new cases on Saturday.
7 am – Over 100 thousand cases in Italy
Over 100,000 coronavirus sufferers passed in Italy on Saturday. In one day 1,996 other cases 619 deaths: increasing, especially in Lombardy. Alarm in particular in Milan, with double the number of infections in one day.
6.30 am – Sebastiani: Virus moves on trucks, spread on highways
The virus traveled on the highway. This is the theorem of Giovanni Sebastiani, researcher of the Institute for applications of calculus Mauro Picone, of the Cnr, explained by the scientist in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Probably – he says – he moved with the traffic of road hauliers and it would be interesting to check the frequency of the infections in this category. Private cars were less likely to be the vehicle.
6.24 hours – Latin America, 60 thousand infected and 2,503 dead
The number of coronaviruses infected in Latin America has now exceeded 60,000, of which over 2,503 died. what emerges from a statistic elaborated byHandle on the situation in 34 Latin American countries and territories. In just 36 hours, the region went from 50,037 cases confirmed on April 10 to 60,300 today. Fatal casualties grew 442 in the same period.
3.11 hours – USA, 1,920 deaths in the last 24 hours
Another 1,920 people have died from coronavirus in the past 24 hours in the United States, which thus exceeds the threshold of 20,000 deaths and becomes the first country in the world in terms of number of victims. According to the latest updates from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, 20,506 have died in the United States or more than a thousand more than in Italy, where they are 19,468 (here is the chart of contagions in the world, to be followed in real time).
