Conte sees the opposition: “Factory closure was necessary” – And the first almost full lockout day began with the strikes, in the evening the prime minister met with opposition leaders in Palazzo Chigi, together with the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Federico D’Incà. For the center-right they were present Matteo Salvini, Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani. Everyone wore the mask and sat at a safe distance. The Minister of Health connected via videoconference, Roberto Speranza, and that of the Treasury, Roberto Gualtieri. The prime minister explained to opposition leaders that “the factories were closed needed”And hopes it will be limited in time. “Italy – said the premier – is implementing a strategy that costs us sacrifices, with a significant economic impact, to get a result. We cannot accept that instead other countries face this struggle with a lower penalty threshold, because then we could be exposed to the effects of a return infection. That’s why the coordinated European response at all levels is the only possibility. ”
Conte announced to Salvini, Meloni and Tajani that “for some nursing homes in difficulty they have already been Armed Forces Doctors, as well as in some heavier hospitals ”. On Tuesday, however, three and a half million masks will be distributed to the population. Three hundred respirators will come from Germany, while other aid has been sent from Russia and China.
Upon leaving the meeting, Salvini announced that for the April decree, Conte expressed his intention to involve the opposition. While Conte, according to rumors, replied to those who asked him if the appeal to Mes that the government does not intend to use it on the basis of the current regulatory framework because of the current conditions they are not acceptable.
The data: fewer cases and deaths – The 15th day from the first decree with government measures also records the first positive data, albeit only from the point of view of the trend. I’m 63,927 total cases, with 6077 dead and 7432 healed. In intensive care 3,204 people. In the last 24 hours, therefore, there have been 601 victims and 3,780 new infections, with a growth curve of 8%: the lowest in the last few days. “We note that the measures are working but it is early to talk about falling trends,” says the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità Silvio Brusaferro. Growth in Lombardy is even less, considering that it stops at 5.7%. In the most affected region, the number of new infections and deaths seem to be slowing down: 28,761 positive patients, 1,555 more than yesterdayand 3,776 people died, 320 more. Yesterday there had been an increase of 1,691 cases, while the deaths had been 361. There were 1142 people hospitalized in intensive care, 41 more than yesterday. “There is a downward increase compared to yesterday and the previous day,” says the Lombard Welfare Councilor, Giulio Gallera.
Almost 5 thousand infected doctors – According to the data Iss I’m 4824 the infected health workers, a double figure compared to China and which, according to the Gimbe foundation, could be very underestimated. The national federation of medical orders announces that there are 24 doctors who died of the epidemic. The latest certified deaths, and reported on the sad list of the Fnomceo, are those of Rosario Lupo, forensic doctor from Bergamo, and Giuseppe Fasoli, doctor of retired family in Brescia, returned to work for the coronavirus emergency. The federation has returned to ask for “swabs on all health professionals, doctors and nurses, on the front line and most exposed to the risk of contagion from Covid-19”. The indication of the Scientific Technical Committee to “extend the use of tampons for healthcare personnel is not respected by the great majority of the Regions. Doctors continue to die and this situation is unacceptable. ”
Unions will see Patuanelli and Gualtieri – Just to contain the infection, the unions ask to review the list of factories that can remain open. In the early afternoon the leaders of CGIL, CISL and UIL, Maurizio Landini, Annamaria Furlan and Carmelo Barbagallo, asked to be “urgently called” by the ministers of economics and economic development Roberto Gualtieri is Stefano Patuanelli. The goal is “to review the list attached to the provision of additional industrial and commercial activities for most of which we believe the indispensability or essentiality characteristic does not exist”. The summons came shortly after: the social partners will speak with the two ministers on Tuesday at 11 am in a video conference.
Strikes: from metalworkers to the chemical and textile sectors – Tensions started yesterday evening, immediately after Conte’s signature to the decree on the lockout. In the morning, all three trade unions invited to mobilize and, if necessary, also to strike. The first to join, according to what reported by Fiom, were the workers of Leonardo, Ge Avio, Fata Logistic System, Lgs, Vitrociset, Mbda, Dema, Cam and Dar. For Wednesday 25 March, however, Fim, Fiom and Uilm of Lombardy have proclaimed “8 hours of strike per shift or working day” for all workers in the metalworking sector “. The acronyms Filtem Cgil, Femca Cisl, Uiltec, representatives of the chemical, textile, rubber-plastic sectors will also protest. Mobilization does not concern workers engaged in productions closely related to hospital and healthcare activities, the production of machinery-equipment-maintenance for hospital structures and the provisions of the law. The unions’ accusation is that it was Confindustria to convince the government to review the list of activities that must remain open by force. “They have been added, thanks to pressure from Confindustria,” said the secretary Maurizio Landini to Giornale Radio 1, “a whole series of activities that are not among those that must be considered essential. At this stage it must come first the health of citizens. We will not proclaim the strike in the essential sectors, but to give the country a future. Above all, we need the fear that there is today among people not to turn into anger because people risk feeling lonely when faced with such an important issue. ”
The #decretocoronavirus today does not take into account, if not partially, what we have brought to the attention of the Executive. For this #CgilCislUil support initiatives to fight until the strike to protect this right. Non-essential productions must be closed.
– CGIL National (@cgilnazionale) March 22, 2020
Confindustria: “They instrumentalize, we will lose 100 billion a month” – “This is not the moment of conflict but of dialogue and collaboration. We hope that the sense of responsibility prevails. The health of people is in first place and our companies are, now more than ever, committed to protecting it by adopting the most stringent preventive measures. We must protect the health of our employees in the present and at the same time give them a future, “he says Alberto Dal Poz, president of Federmeccanica. ” Who does not seem willing to mediate is the president of Confindustria Vincenzo Boccia who, in the various interviews released in these hours, insists on defining “exploitationsWorkers’ protests. “With this decree a question arises that from the economic emergency makes us enter thewar economy“Said interviewed to Circus Maximus on Radio Capital. “70% of the Italian productive fabric will close, if the GDP is 1800 billion per year it means that we produce 150 billion a month, if we close 70% of the activities it means that we lose 100 billion every 30 days”. Interviewed by Corriere della Sera, he instead attacked “the exploitations that are exceeding the guard level”: “Here we want to look for the scapegoat. And Confindustria is not there. ”
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11.15 pm – Conte: “We will not take advantage of the Mes with the current rules”
“We are not willing to use the MES on the basis of the current regulatory framework, the current conditions are not acceptable,” said Conte on the sidelines of the meeting with the oppositions.
23.10 – Salvini: “Conte said he will involve us in the April decree”
“At least they listened to us, after days of reading what the government was doing in the newspapers, or live on Fb. We have pointed out that there is a Parliament. Of course, they told us that for March there is no money for VAT. But they told us they will involve us on the April decree. We want to collaborate with our ideas “. So the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, at the end of the meeting with the government.
22.40 – Government summit – opposition finished
The meeting between the government and opposition leaders has just ended at Palazzo Chigi.
22.30 – Conte to Salvini: “On prisons there will not be everyone free”
Minister Bonafede confirmed to me that this is not a ‘free all’ measure, quite the contrary. During the summit at Palazzo Chigi between government and oppositions, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he would be urged by the leader of the League Matteo Salvini on the need to intervene to solve the problem of prisons in the face of the Coronavirus emergency. With this epidemic risk, forcing those entering and leaving to return to prison could become a matter of prison health, Conte said.
22.20 – Conte: “Latest preventive measures for the South, necessary for the North”
“It was a decision deemed necessary for the most critical area of the North, but certainly also useful as a preventive function for the Center and the South.” As said from sources present at the meeting, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in the meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the opposition, speaking of the dpcm with the stop to non-essential production activities, launched over the weekend.
22.13 – Conte: “Factory closings I hope for a short time”
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hopes that the factories are closed for a limited time. Some sources at the meeting in progress at Palazzo Chigi report it.
22.10 – Count to oppositions: “Military doctors in nursing homes”
“For some nursing homes in difficulty, armed forces doctors have already been sent, as well as in some more troubled hospitals”. As told by Adnkronos, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said to the opposition leaders gathered at Palazzo Chigi, responding to concerns about care homes for the most troubled elderly people. The Prime Minister reassured those present, a first response from the government has already been made.
22.04 – Count to oppositions: “3.5 million masks distributed tomorrow”
3,500,000 masks will be distributed tomorrow. According to what is learned by those present, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said to the opposition representatives gathered at Palazzo Chigi. The prime minister allegedly explained that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed that Germany will send 300 respirators to Italy and aid will come from Russia, China and other countries.
22.01 – Count to oppositions: “All countries adopt strict measures”
“We must demand that all countries adopt strict lines of contrast against Coronavirus infection. Italy is implementing a strategy that costs us sacrifices, with a significant economic impact, to obtain a result. We cannot accept that other countries instead face this struggle with a lower penalty threshold, because then we could be exposed to the effects of a return infection. That’s why the coordinated European response at all levels is the only possibility. ” So Giuseppe Conte, as far as we learn, in the meeting with the opposition.
22 – New squeeze in the province of Piacenza
A further squeeze to prevent contagions in the province of Piacenza comes with a new order signed by the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region Stefano Bonaccini, in force from tomorrow to April 3. Economic activities are suspended, excluding essential ones or those that guarantee limited contacts between people. And measures are strengthened to ensure social containment and distancing, starting with the ban on any gathering with more than two people.
20.10 – Boccia: “Already Wednesday medical volunteers in Lombardy”
“We talked to Fontana and many other presidents on the phone and we announced that the first contingent of volunteer doctors will arrive in Lombardy on Wednesday. The next forces will go to Piacenza and the Marche and to follow where there is need “. This was stated by the Minister for Autonomies Francesco Boccia.
20.05 – Boccia: “Soon call for volunteer nurses”
An online call to recruit volunteer nurses to be sent to the regions most affected by the coronavirus, on the model of the one for 300 doctors launched a few days ago by the Civil Protection. “We will do it within the next week,” announced the minister Francesco Boccia speaking to journalists after the daily press conference of Commissioner Angelo Borrelli.
20.00 – Conte briefing in parliament on Thursday
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will be in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday before the Senate for information on the Coronavirus emergency. According to reports from government sources, the prime minister should report at 9:45 in Montecitorio and at 12:30 in Palazzo Madama.
19.35 – Uefa postpones Champions League and Europa League finals
The Champions League and Europa League club finals, originally scheduled for May, have been postponed. UEFA has formalized it today, without indicating new dates for the two matches, due to the health crisis linked to the coronavirus pandemic underway in Europe. No decision has been made yet in terms of dates for the reorganization of the finals, including that of the women’s Champions League. The working group, set up last week following the conference call between European football stakeholders, chaired by UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, will evaluate the options available. The group has already started looking at the calendar. The announcements will be made in due course, concludes the UEFA press release.
19.32 – Summit street between Conte and oppositions at Palazzo Chigi
The summit between government and opposition on the Coronavirus emergency has started at Palazzo Chigi. For the executive there are Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Federico D’Incà. Matteo Salvini, Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani are present for the center-right. Everyone wears a mask and is at a safe distance. The minister of health, Roberto Speranza, is connected by videoconference.
19.30 – Sicily, Enna “red zone”. Mayor: “Many cases in the province”
The mayor of Enna Maurizio Dipietro, in light of the 41 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in several municipalities in the province, communicated in a direct Facebook that he ‘adopted an ordinance by which “I ordered all public employers and individuals who are based in the Municipality of Enna to avoid not serving those who are not resident in our Municipality “. Rossà area then in the Enna city which follows what was decided in the afternoon by the Sicilian Region that had established the red areas for the municipalities of Agira, precisely in Enna and Salemi, in Trapani.
19.25 – AFP: “More than ten thousand dead in Europe”
More than 10,000 coronavirus victims are found in Europe, according to a calculation by the France 10,058 agency, most of which in Italy (6,077), followed by Spain (2,182) and France (860). With 184,138 cases of contagion from Covid-19, Europe is the continent where the pandemic proceeds faster, according to the AFP.
19.20 – Hope: “Crucial days, everyone’s commitment is needed”
“There are crucial days of trouble keeping your guard down. Now more than ever, everyone’s commitment is needed. ” So the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, despite some timid signs of improvement in the coronavirus epidemic curve, urges citizens, right now, not to loosen the stringent containment measures and to continue to follow the strict rules imposed by the Government to deal with the emergency and to be able to overcome it
19.17 – Federmeccanica: “Now dialogue not conflict”
“This is not the moment of conflict but of dialogue and collaboration. We hope that the sense of responsibility will prevail. ” This was stated by Alberto Dal Poz, president of Federmeccanica after the strike threat advanced by the metalworkers’ unions. “People’s health is paramount and our businesses – he underlines – are now more than ever committed to protecting it by adopting the most stringent preventive measures. We must protect the health of our employees in the present and, at the same time, give them a future ”
7.15 pm – Vogalonga of Venice also skips
“Given the ongoing health emergency, the organizing committee of the Vogalonga has decided to suspend the event scheduled for May 31”. This is what the organization of the historic Venetian regatta says in a note. “In the uncertain situation of when everything will return to normal, which of course we hope will be as soon as possible, we do not feel like making any predictions on the possibility of recovering it after the summer. If you can find a date with the competent authorities, we will be happy to communicate it to you in time. We extend a big hug to everyone and up the oars, waiting to find ourselves together on the waters of Venice.
19.10 – Sicily, Salemi red zone. Mayor: “Buffer outcome comes after 5 days”
“In recent days I had signaled to Asp and Prefecture the need for acceleration not only in the execution of the tampons but also in the communication of the results. We have experienced several delays because the outcome of a swab cannot arrive after 4-5 days. The time variable in a situation like ours was not secondary. There were delays and slownesses that I also reported to Governor Nello Musumeci on Saturday, asking for a wider screening. ” This was told by the mayor of Salemi, Domenico Venuti, after the town in the province of Trapani was declared by the president of the Sicilian region, Nello Musumeci, the ‘rossà area together with Agira, in the Enna area.
19.00 – Leonardo: “Production goes on”
“Leonardo is aware of the difficult moment that the country is experiencing. We reaffirm the utmost commitment to guarantee all our workers the highest safety standard by fully respecting the prescriptions established by the Government and also the further measures agreed with the unions through the Protocol signed a few days ago “. This is what the aerospace and defense group underlines in a note. “Ours – he says – is a highly strategic sector and our goal is to guarantee production continuity but without any compromise on safety and health”.
18.58 – Vatican suspends press Osservatore Romano
Due to the Coronavirus emergency, which also makes normal routes of diffusion difficult, the Vatican Dicastery for Communication has decided to suspend, starting from this Thursday, the printed edition of the Osservatore Romano. The publication of the newspaper will continue on the web and via email, with the intention of also resuming the printed edition when the current situation has normalized. As far as we learn, the decision was the subject of an internal communication to the employees by the prefect of the Dicastery, Paolo Ruffini.
18.55 – The first Italian patients leave for Leipzig tonight
A flight is scheduled for tonight from the Lombard airport of Orio al Serio to Leipzig, Germany, with some of the coronavirus infected patients on board. Diplomatic sources report it. Today the Minister-President Michael Kretschmer of Saxony had declared the availability of his Land to host Italian patients.
18.52 – Iss: “Still full roads in the South”
In southern Italy “you can still see streets full of people and situations that we do not see in other contexts”: an attitude that “worries” even if today the south “shows data where the curve still does not seem to rise”. The president of ISS Silvio Brusaferro said this by launching a new appeal to citizens: “we are all in the same challenge, we must maintain a rigorous and unified attitude across the country, the dynamics of the virus are not affected by latitude but by our behavior”.
18.50 – Iss: “Important week to study curves”
“It is an important seventh for us to evaluate the trend of the curves and we are looking at it with great attention. We must remember that the contribution to the curves comes from the Northern Regions and that our effort is to avoid that in the Southern Regions the curves replicate equal to those of the North. The challenge of these measures is to ensure that these curves do not reproduce. ” This was stated by Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health in his speech at the press conference on Civil Protection “.
18.40 – Iss: “Soon to say that the trend is falling”
“I don’t feel like going too far, also because today we see the effects of what happened two weeks ago. We note that the measures “work but it is too early to talk about falling trends. So the president of ISS Silvio Brusaferro replied to those who asked him if the data of the last two days could suggest a drop in the trend of infections.
18.30 – Prevent new positives or suspects from spreading
“To get the contagion curve down again, we hope as soon as possible, it is essential that new positives or positive suspects drastically cease to transmit the infection to others.” So the President Iss Silvio Brusaferro in a press conference at the Civil Protection. “This is the bet. They are the positives who after a while arrive in the hospital. To prevent this number of cases from occurring again in 15-20 days, we must prevent the new positives or suspects from transmitting the virus.
18.25 – Iss: “A bet is to avoid growth in the South”
“Our great effort is to prevent the virus growth curves seen in the northern regions from happening in the south. The challenge of these measures and of our country is to prevent the south curves from reproducing ”. So the president of ISS Silvio Brusaferro at a press conference on civil protection.
18.22 – Germany will welcome 8 Italian patients
“Germany has accepted the first two Italian coronavirus positive patients, it should welcome 8 positive in all: this highlights how important international solidarity is”. Commissioner Angelo Borrelli said this during a press conference at the Civil Protection.
18.20 – In Resuscitation 3,204 sick
3,204 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 195 more than yesterday. Of these, 1,183 are in Lombardy. Of the 50,418 patients overall, 20,692 are then hospitalized with symptoms and 26,522 are those in home isolation. The data was made known by the head of the Civil Protection Department, Angelo Borrelli.
18.15 – In 24 hours 408 healed
7,432 people were healed in Italy after contracting the coronavirus, 408 more than yesterday. Emergency Commissioner Angelo Borrelli said it during the press conference on Civil Protection. Yesterday the increase in the healed was 952.
18.12 – More than six thousand victims
There are a total of 6,077 coronavirus victims in Italy, with an increase of 601 compared to yesterday. The figure was disclosed by the head of the Civil Protection Department, Angelo Borrelli.
18.10 – Over 60 thousand cases
Over 50 thousand coronavirus patients in Italy. There are a total of 50,418, with an increase compared to yesterday of 3,780: on Sunday the increase had been 3,957. The total number of infected people – including victims and healed – reached 63,927. The data was provided by the emergency commissioner Angelo Borrelli during a press conference at the Civil Protection.
18.06 – Lombardy, cases and deaths drop
The data relating to the coronavirus emergency in Lombardy are improving as, compared to yesterday, the growth of both infected and deaths is decreasing: the positive patients are 28761, 1,555 more than yesterday, and the dead people are 3776, 320 more. Yesterday there had been an increase of 1,691 cases, while the deaths had been 361. This is what the councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region Giulio Gallera said, adding that the people hospitalized in intensive care are 1142, 41 more than yesterday
18.05 – In Lombardy 320 deaths
The number of new deaths in Lombardy in the last 24 hours is 320. This was said by Giulio Gallera, Lombardy Welfare Councilor, via videoconference. “The trend is falling, even if a little less than the other data, since yesterday it had increased by 361”. The death toll therefore rises from 3,456 to 3,776.
18.03 – No Vinitaly, it will be in 2021
The Coronavirus emergency also stops Vinitaly in Verona. The great wine review will not be held this year, but has been postponed to 2021, from 18 to 21 April. This was decided by the Veronafiere board of directors, due to the continuing health alert. In recent weeks, the Scaliger fair had already decided to reposition the 54th edition of Vinitaly in June. Now the postponement to 2021, together with the concurrent Sol & amp; Agrifood and Enolitech.
18.02 – The number of doctors who died from the epidemic rises to 24
The number of doctors who died from the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy rises to 24. The update is from the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo). The latest certified deaths, and reported on the sad list of the Fnomceo, are those of Rosario Lupo, a medical examiner from Bergamo, and Giuseppe Fasoli, a family doctor retired in the Brescia area, who returned to work for the coronavirus emergency. The list of 24 names also includes retired but no longer active doctors.
18.01 – Gallera: “Downward trend confirmed”
“The trend is falling, today I can say that the falling trend is confirmed, from many points of view, perhaps it is the first positive day of this very hard month, but we are not singing victory, it is not yet the time to relax, but to stay even more focused than ever. ” The regional councilor for welfare, Giulio Gallera, said in videoconference talking about the data on coronavirus in Lombardy.
18.00 – New cases in Milan and province reduced by half
The growth of positive cases has decreased by almost 50% both in Milan and throughout the province. According to data released by the Lombardy Region Councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera, the positives in Milan city are 2176 with an increase of 137 cases, while yesterday it was 210 and two days ago it was 279. In the whole province the positives are 5326 , with an increase of 230, while yesterday they were 424 more and the day before yesterday 868.
17.59 – Fewer cases in Bergamo, they grow in Brescia
The data relating to new cases in the province of Bergamo continue to improve, while they worsen significantly in that of Brescia: this is the situation of the two Lombardy areas most affected by the coronavirus. According to the data provided by the Regional Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera, in the province of Bergamo there are 6471 positives, with a growth of 255 new cases, while yesterday it had been 347 and the day before yesterday by as many as 715. In Brescia instead, the 5905 are positive, with a growth of 588 new cases, while yesterday they had been 289 and the day before yesterday 380. In the province of Lodi, the first affected in Italy by the coronavirus, the infected are 1817, with 45 new cases, yesterday they were 79 and the day before yesterday 96.
17.57 – In Lombardy “only” 1,500 more cases “
The number of positives at regional level rises to 28,761. Compared to yesterday, there are 1,555 more. “There is a downward increase compared to yesterday and the previous day.” So the Lombard councilor for Welfare, Giulio Gallera, during the usual afternoon press point from Palazzo Lombardia, in Milan, on the coronavirus emergency.
17.56 – Gallera: “For the first time, hospitalizations decrease”
“For the first time today we have a decrease in hospitalizations: we have 9,266 patients hospitalized in Lombardy, yesterday there were 9,439, therefore 173 fewer. The numbers of emergency room access are also decreasing slightly, although not everywhere. ” This was said by the Lombardy Region Councilor for Welfare, Giulio Gallera.
17.55 – Gallera: “First positive day”
“Today the downward trend is confirmed, we can say that it is the first positive day, it is not the time to sing victory but we finally see a light at the bottom of the tunnel”. The councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera said it, in the live facebook to take stock of the coronavirus emergency in Lombardy, adding that it is the third day of falling data.
17.50 – In Sicily, two municipalities become Red Zone
Two Sicilian municipalities, Agira, in the Enna area, and Salemi, in the province of Trapani, will become “red zone” from tomorrow. The president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci decided, after hearing the two mayors. The measure. it was explained, it became necessary after the ASP offices reported 9 citizens to Agira, 3 of whom died and a further 6 who had been swabbed and awaiting results; in Salemi the positivity of 15 people and 21 more pending the outcome of the test, in addition to an elderly person already deceased. Until April 15 there will be a ban on access and removal from the municipal area and the suspension of all activities of public offices, with the exception of essential services and public utilities. Only health and socio-health workers, staff engaged in emergency assistance and operators who are allowed in the area and those strictly instrumental to them, with the obligation to use personal protective equipment, may enter and leave the country.
17.48 – Fontana: “Avigan experimentation route”
“The new drug Avigan, it is not known if it works or does not work, but now it can be tested, thanks to the requests that we sent to Rome to be immediately tested. And the experimentation, thanks to the Aifa ok, will begin immediately in Lombardy, starting tomorrow, and we hope that it will help eliminate this damned virus. ” This was stated by the president of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana. Budget Assessor Davide Caparini added: “It has been an over-the-counter drug in Japan since 2014 to combat the flu, and has given positive results, but we still need to understand how effective this drug can be. We thank Minister Speranza who accepted our heartfelt appeal. The experimentation will start immediately in Lombardy “.
17.45 – Patient 1: “You can heal but stay at home”
“It is difficult after this experience to make a story of what happened to me. They told me that for 18 days I was in intensive care. People need to understand that staying indoors is essential. We don’t know who can be contagious. I was lucky because I was treated. You can heal this disease “. So Mattia, the patient 1 from Coronavirus, in an audio message sent to the Lombardy Region.
17.45 – Patient 1 released: “I’m lucky”
Patient 1 was discharged from San Matteo of Pavia, the 38-year-old from Codogno believed to be the first ascertained case of Coronavirus in Italy. Mattia, this is his name, on the evening of February 19 had been hospitalized in the hospital of the town of Lodigiano and then moved between 21 and 22 in desperate conditions in the resuscitation of the Pavia hospital. On 9 March he began to breathe independently. ‘I was lucky, stay at home, he said in a video broadcast on the Lombardia News Fb page.
17.35 – Doctors: “Urgent swab to exposed health”
It is “urgent to carry out swabs on all health workers, doctors and nurses, on the front line and most exposed to the risk of contagion from Covid-19”. This was stated by the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli. The indication of the Scientific Technical Committee to “extend the use of tampons for healthcare personnel is not respected by the great majority of the Regions. Doctors continue to die and this situation – he says – is unacceptable “.
17.30 – Cirio: “Close everything, no exceptions”
“We have to close really, not pretending, but reading the latest government decree I am afraid that many realities may still remain open.” So the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio, in a video conference from the Crisis Unit, where he went in the afternoon after announcing that he was cured of the coronavirus. “Since the beginning we have adopted the penalty line, because only by staying at home can we defeat the virus – underlines the governor – and instead I fear that there are still too many exceptions”
17.20 – UN calls for world ceasefire
“The fury of the coronavirus shows the madness of the war. That’s why today I’m calling for a global and immediate ceasefire in all corners of the world. It is time to stop armed conflict and focus on the real struggle of our lives. To the warring parties I say: withdraw from hostilities ”. This is the message launched by the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres. “Let’s not forget that in war-torn countries, health systems have collapsed,” he added.
17.15 – WHO: “Course of the pandemic can change”
“We can change the trajectory of this pandemic. Asking people to stay at home is an important way, but to win we have to attack the virus with aggressive tactics, testing every suspicious case, isolating every confirmed case, tracking and quarantining every person who has been in contact with it. ” This was stated by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in the Geneva briefing on the coronavirus.
17.05 – WHO: “Pandemic is accelerating”
“The pandemic is accelerating, it took 67 days to reach the first one hundred thousand infections, 11 days for 200 thousand and 4 days for three hundred thousand”. This was stated by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in the briefing from Geneva.
17.00 – WHO at G20: “Coordination is needed”
“Solving this problem requires political coordination worldwide. I address the leaders of the G20 to ask to work together to strengthen production, avoid the ban on exports and ensure the distribution of protective materials. ” This was stated by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in the Geneva briefing on the coronavirus.
16.45 – Medici 118: “Pulse oximeter can save lives”
“A patient cannot be expected to go into respiratory crisis, because by that time he has already fallen into the abyss, the lungs are compromised. You must provide the oximeter at home to those in quarantine, because it detects the reduction of the oxygenation parameters of the blood in time “. This was stated by the national president of 118 Mario Balzanelli. The importance of the oximeter for those in isolation is also underlined by the Federation of family doctors (Fimmg) and by anesthesiologists who ask for a change of pace in the clinical approach to Covid-19.
16.40 – Green light to drones to monitor movements in the municipalities
Green light to the use of drones for “monitoring operations of citizens’ movements in the municipal area” by local police. This is provided by a provision of the ENAC – valid until April 3 – which allows derogations from some of the rules of the regulation on remotely piloted aircraft, “with a view to ensuring the containment of the Coronavirus epidemiological emergency”. The needs for the use of these vehicles have been expressed “by numerous commands of the local police”.
16.38 – Rome, 5 positive children in good condition
“All 5 positive children are in good and stable condition.” This was underlined by the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome in today’s bulletin from the Lazio Region task force. “There are 6 Covid-19 intensive care places, 6 non-Covid-19 intensive care places and 21 infectious disease beds,” the hospital said.
16.34 – Rome, Covid hospital 4 Tor Vergata operational from tomorrow
“The emptying of tower 8 was completed to make Covid Hospital 4 Tor Vergata operational. The first 40 places will be operational from tomorrow. An additional 50 Covid-19 seats available by March 31st. ” The Policlinico Tor Vergata of Rome made it known in today’s bulletin of the Lazio Region Task Force.
16.32 – Centralized device purchase from the EU
The EU starts with the centralized purchase of materials and devices to combat the pandemic. The Ministry of Health announced it. The meeting by videoconference of EU health ministers took place this afternoon. The meeting “sanctioned – explains the ministry – the start of centralized purchasing procedures in the EU for materials and devices necessary to combat the epidemic”. It is “a step forward. Italy immediately asked Europe to act in a coordinated way, “said Minister Speranza.
16.30 – Tuesday Cdm to standardize sanctions
Tomorrow at 15 there will be a Council of Ministers. A decree will arrive on the table that aims to standardize administrative sanctions for those who break the anti-Covid rules throughout the country19.
16.14 – Gualtieri also at the Patuanelli-Sindacati video conference
The ministers of Economic Development and Economy, Stefano Patuanelli and Roberto Gualtieri, it is learned, have convened a video conference with CGIL, CISL and UIL for tomorrow morning at 11, after the secretaries general Maurizio Landini, Annamaria Furlan and Carmelo Barbagallo have sent them a letter asking “urgently for a meeting” on the Dpcm issued yesterday with the new anti-Coronavirus restrictions. The unions believe that many of the unsuspended industrial and commercial activities are not essential or essential and, therefore, ask to review the list.
16.10 – Anm Basilicata donates 4 thousand euros to Civil Protection
The District Council of the National Magistrates Association of Basilicata has decided to provide the Regional Civil Protection with a contribution of 4 thousand euros for the purchase of medical material intended to contain the epidemiological risk of COVID 19. The president of the Council Anm Basilicata reports, Alberto Iannuzzi.
16 – Dead external collaborator of the EU Parliament: he was Italian
First victim in the European Parliament for Covid-19. It is an external collaborator, who worked at DG Itec, i.e. the direction for innovation and technological support. The news came with an email to employees of the European Parliament, informing that the team in which the victim worked has been contacted and is supported on a health and psychological level.
15.45 – Patuanelli has video-summoned the unions
The Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli, video-convened the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL for 11 at tomorrow. At the center of the meeting, the unions’ request for a restrictive modification of the list of companies deemed strategic, therefore open, and included in the latest Dpcm launched yesterday by the government.
15.40 – The unions ask for urgent summons
The leaders of CGIL, CISL and UIL, Maurizio Landini, Annamaria Furlan and Carmelo Barbagallo, today asked the ministers for economics and economic development, Roberto Gualtieri and Stefano Patuanelli, to be able to be urgently called to the Dpcm with which the government yesterday suspended a series of industrial and commercial activities until April 3, 2020 to further contain the coronavirus emergency. The objective, as far as we learn: “to review the list attached to the provision, a very substantial list of additional industrial and commercial activities, for most of which we believe the indispensability or essentiality characteristic does not exist”, they explain.
15.35 – At the start search for app track movements
A call to the world of business and research to find apps that allow patients with Covid-19 pathologies to be monitored “teleassistably” and to identify “technologies and solutions for continuous tracking, alerting and timely control of the level of exposure to people’s risk “. The call is launched by the Ministry of Innovation, together with that of Health, the ISS and WHO, with the support of a multidisciplinary scientific committee. The goal is to select, in the next three days, “the best” offers.
15.05 – Conte will see the opposition at 7pm
At 7 p.m. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will see opposition leaders. It is not yet clear whether there will be a meeting at Palazzo Chigi or if the appointment will be held in conference call.
14.45 – Murder in the red area of Fondi. There is a first arrested
Attacked and killed in the red zone of Fondi. The victim is a 69-year-old farmer. The suspicions would have focused on a man who, from initial investigations, appears to have worked for the victim previously. The position of the detainee is now being investigated by the investigators. From a first external examination of the corpse, the farmer would have been violently beaten to the point of death. The carabinieri of Latina investigate the murder.
2.30 pm – Lucia Bosè died
14:20 – Two million people checked, 96 thousand reported
Police officers checked 157,621 people yesterday and 10,326 were reported. There were 53,776 controlled businesses, 158 operators were reported and 7 businesses were suspended. The number of persons controlled from 11 to 22 March, 92,367 those reported for failure to comply with the orders of the authority, 2,155 complaints for false declarations rise to 2,016,318; 973,799 controlled businesses and 2,277 the owners reported.
14.15 – For the Veneto target 20 thousand tampons per day
The Veneto aims to arrive in a couple of weeks to carry out 20 thousand swabs per day through “active surveillance”, a project coordinated by the University of Padua together with the Region and the Red Cross, to “flush out” and isolate people infected with Coronavirus and asymptomatic and thus gradually decrease hospitalizations.
14.10 – Fed expands liquidity injection programs
The Federal Reserve announces new programs to guarantee liquidity to the markets and the expansion of loans to include some types of corporate and municipal debt. The central bank has undertaken to continue purchasing assets “in the necessary amounts” to ensure the smooth functioning of the markets. The Fed will buy new tranches of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities this week.
14 – Sileri: “It is a subtle disease, you don’t just die in intensive care”
“This is a subtle disease, which starts with symptoms, such as fever, cough, but then comes respiratory failure. Unfortunately, not only those who are in intensive care die, but also those who fail to reach intensive care, and especially by numbers, die. It is a subtle disease, too fast. So it is also important to use more of the tampons, to be made to all contacts of the positive and at risk subjects. Then you need to give protective devices to those who are in quarantine and live with other people. ” Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri said, guest of ‘Sky Tg24’.
13.50 – Telephone call between Salvini and Mattarella
“Friendly and courteous” phone call this morning between the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the Secretary of the League Matteo Salvini after the request from the center-right to be received by the head of state. The League reports. “I thank the President for his availability – Salvini says – and for his commitment to fostering a dialogue between the government and the opposition to create the right climate of true collaboration for the good of the country and to get out of the emergency together. I informed Giorgia Meloni and Silvio Berlusconi about the interview “.
13.35 – Fontana: “I asked the Interior Ministry if the regional ordinance or the government decree prevails”
“I sent a formal note to the Minister of the Interior Lamorgese, with whom I also had a phone call before sending, with which I ask the ministry to express its opinion whether the order of the Region or the Dpcm should be applied” , where there is a conflict, because that of the Region provides for greater limitations. The president of the Lombardy Region said so. “Our legal department and the lawyers we consulted – he added – tell us that our order must prevail, but we asked the minister why no conflict should be created at this time”.
13.25 – Piedmont, 17 patients recovered. 15 deaths
There are 17 coronavirus healings in Piedmont. With that of Governor Cirio, the Regional Crisis Unit also communicated those of a 54-year-old woman from Turin and a boy from Novara.
Among the 17 recovered, four are from the Asti area, two from the Cuneo area, three from the Novara area, six from the Turin area, one from the Vercelli area and a resident outside the region. Instead, there are 15 deaths of positive people. Thus the total number of victims rises to 315, the largest number in the province of Alessandria (89) and in the metropolitan area of Turin (76).
13.15 – Hypothesis flights to transfer the passengers of the Costa Luminosa
Hypothesis charter flights for the transfer of non-European passengers and crew from Costa Luminosa, the ship aboard which coronavirus cases have been recorded and for three days in port in Savona. There are currently 337 passengers on board: 48 got off this morning. This afternoon the last 6 Italians will leave Liguria with ferries from Genoa to return to Sicily and Sardinia. And 92 other Dutchmen will. The remaining 191 passengers will be transferred by bus to hotel facilities in Rome and Pisa, in quarantine, waiting to be able to return to their countries with dedicated flights. As for the 836 crew members, a part will be sent home on charter flights awaiting authorization and in the meantime they will go to hotels in Rome and Pisa. A hundred seafarers will remain on board to manage the ship, under health monitoring. At the end of the operations, the ship will be sanitized and re-shaped on another dock.
12.45 – Di Maio: “Medical equipment has arrived from the USA”
“From the United States, which I thank, a mobile patient stabilization system and medical equipment has arrived.” The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, announced it in a post on Facebook, updating on aid that arrived in Italy from abroad to deal with the coronavirus emergency. The owner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the 110 thousand masks that will arrive in Rome by tomorrow have already left the Republic, “while the Eli Lilly Foundation has announced that it will donate one million euro of insulin they produce to Italian hospitals. As you can see we are not alone, we continue to fight. And we will go out together. ”
12.25 – EU assesses impact of Italian measures on coronavirus infection
The European coronavirus response team examined “the positive impact of social distancing and other measures in some countries such as Austria, Italy, and Germany”. The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, writes this on her Twitter profile. The task force, Von der Leyen explains, today “focused on preparing the various meetings that will be held by teleconference this week: Health; Internal affairs; Economy; European Council; Industry”.
12 – Alberto Arbasino has died
The writer Alberto Arbasino has died. Repubblica reports about this on its website. He was 90 years old last January. Among the protagonists of Group 63, he was a historical collaborator of the Espresso group.
11.45 – Minister Bellanova: “This is certainly not the time to plan a strike”
“I understand that pressures are coming on the union, they are days and nights of great effort and I feel the workers’ appeal for the right to be afraid, but I ask the” unions maximum prudence is certainly not the time to plan a strike. ” It is the appeal that the Minister of Agriculture Teresa Bellanova addresses to the unions by intervening ‘Coffe Break’ on La 7. “It is time to carry out our function with great rigor” he added.
11.40 – Fiom: “Strikes in the Turin area”
The workers of the Avio Aero plants in Rivalta and Borgaretto are on strike with a membership of over 90%. This was announced by Fiom si Torino. In these days, the activity in the company of Leonardo’s Turin factories is almost completely suspended due to previous union agreements. The entire aerospace sector was in fact authorized by the Decree to continue its activities – for purely economic reasons – despite the companies in that sector performing very diversified and largely non-essential activities. This morning, the workers of Alessio Tubie of Officine Vica also went on strike, with very high adhesions – underlines Fiom – to protest against the corporate decisions to normally continue the activity on productions that are not essential. Alcar and Brugnago have decided to suspend operations after the RSU strike declaration.
11.35 – CNN: “Italy has asked the head of the Pentagon for help”
Italy allegedly asked the US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, for help in the midst of the coronavirus emergency. Cnn claims it, citing a US Defense official, according to which the Italian defense ministry has launched a direct appeal to Esper for the supply of medical medical material such as masks and respirators. According to CNN, the Italian government would also have asked the assistance of the US military stationed in our country for field hospitals and medical personnel, in order to support the Italian forces already committed to dealing with the emergency.
11.30 – Strike of the workers of the Aerospace sector
There are several companies in the aerospace sector where strikes took place today against the government decree that would have extended the indispensable activities compared to what had been agreed with the union. According to Fiom reports, the workers of Leonardo, Ge Avio, Fata Logistic System, Lgs, Vitrociset, MBDA, DEMA, CAM and DAR have crossed their arms at the moment.
11.10 – Metalworkers from Lombardy will strike on Wednesday 25 March
The workers of the Lombardy metalworking companies will strike on Wednesday 25 March for 8 hours. This was announced by the general secretary of the FIM-CISL, Marco Bentivogli. The decision, he explains, “was made to consider Lombardy a region where more restrictive measures are needed on the activities to be left open”.
11 – Conte: “Today we distribute 4 million masks”
“In recent days, more than 6,500 respirators have been purchased and 120 million masks will arrive from next week, thanks to the constant work done abroad. On this day alone (Monday, ed.) We will distribute 4 million masks and 125 fans. Dozens of Italian companies are converting their production to respond to the emergency, also with the support of the state and the economic resources included in the Cura Italia decree. The country is responding with all its might. We’ll make it”. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says it in an interview with La Stampa.
10.45 – Hundreds of cars returning from the North to Sicily through the Strait of Messina
“Coinciding with the announcement of the Prime Minister’s decree, there was a significant and dangerous influx of cars at the Villa San Giovanni landing stage on private ferries to Messina last night.” This was reported by the secretary general of the Orsa union, Mariano Massaro, who adds: “We are talking about important numbers, hundreds of cars marching towards Sicily which according to the many decrees of the central government and the ordinances of the President of the Region, should be abundantly Armored “.
10.35 – Pope postpones apostolic journey to Malta
“Due to the current world situation and in agreement with the authorities and the local Church, Pope Francis’ announced apostolic trip to Malta has been postponed to a date yet to be defined.” This was reported by the director of the Vatican press room Matteo Bruni. The visit to Malta was on the agenda for May 31 and was the Pope’s first international trip announced for 2020.
10.30 – Fiom: “Impossible to defeat the virus without stopping at supply chains”
“It is impossible to think of defeating the virus if non-essential production activities are not closed.” And the leader of Fiom, Francesca Re David, to highlight it by speaking at Omnibus on La7.
10.20 – Mattarella writes to prisoners who raised funds for the Mestre hospital
“Your gesture of great generosity and closeness to the Venetian hospital service manifests the sense of great solidarity that you have gained in this dramatic moment for humanity. It also shows that, even in your condition of deprivation of liberty, you have found the sensitivity and strength to help those who suffer in hospitals and those who generously endeavor to heal them “. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, writes it in a letter published in ‘Il Gazzettino, after the appeal made to him by the inmates and inmates of the institutes of Venice, Padua and Vicenza, in which, among other things, they announce that they have organized a fundraiser for the intensive care unit of the Mestre hospital and to carry out their activities in favor of the Cup (Single Booking Center).
10.10 – An FCA factory will produce masks
FCA will convert a group plant to produce face masks. CEO Mike Manley says so in a letter to employees, made public by Uilm. “The goal – he explains – is to start production in the coming weeks and get to produce over a million masks per month that will be donated to first responders and health workers.” At present, FCA has not specified which plant of the group it is.
10.05 – Since the beginning of the epidemic, 4 thousand and 824 health workers have been infected in Italy
In Italy, according to the ISS data, since the beginning of the epidemic, 4,824 health professionals have been infected with coronavirus, equal to 9% of the total number of people infected, a percentage more than double that of the Chinese study published in JAMA (3, 8%). The Gimbe foundation fears that the data is widely underestimated. He calls for the tests to be extended to all professionals and health professionals and for protection tools to be provided to those involved in the front line against the emergency.
9.50 – The infectious disease specialist Leonardo Marchi died in Cremona
Another victim among doctors for the Covid-19 epidemic. Dr. Leonardo Marchi, infectious disease specialist and medical director of the San Camillo Nursing Home in Cremona, has learned from the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo). In total, the certified deaths of doctors active due to the new coronavirus epidemic would thus reach 21.
9.40 – Confindustria: “With this decree we will lose 100 billion a month”
“With this decree, a question arises that from the economic emergency makes us enter the war economy,” warns the president of Confindustria, Vincenzo Boccia, after stopping all non-essential economic activities. “70% of the Italian productive fabric will close”, “If the GDP is 1800 billion per year it means that we produce 150 billion a month, if we close 70% of the activities it means that we lose 100 billion every 30 days”, he underlines , guest of Circo Massimo on Radio Capital, according to a note from the broadcaster.
9.30 am – New intensive care unit opens at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan built thanks to donations from Ferragni and Fedez
This morning, the first patients will enter the new intensive care unit built by the San Raffaele hospital in Milan thanks to the donations collected with the campaign launched by Chiara Ferragni and Fedez. According to what is learned from qualified sources, three patients will be hospitalized in intensive care units set up in the hospital emergency room. These first three entrances will therefore serve to ‘lighten the hospital load a little. Overall, the new department, a tensile structure, has 14 intensive care beds and was completed in 10 days. It is not yet known when and from which hospital the other patients will arrive. In the morning, the Lombardy Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera should go for a brief visit to the new structure. In the meantime, the construction of another tensile structure has started a few days ago, adjacent to the one that is now in operation, which will always be used as an intensive care unit.
9.20 – Milan, red list for Piazza Affari
Completely red price list for Piazza Affari (-2% at 15,420 points). Aside from Diasorin (+ 4.48%), on the long wave of the new coronavirus test, the minus sign among Italian blue chips prevails, with a new day of passion for FCA (-5%), Exor (-6% ) and Intesa Sanpaolo (-3.82%) and the spread rising above the 200 point mark. Unicredit is frozen due to a fall in excess.
8 – Towards 340 thousand cases worldwide
The coronavirus cases in the world are now approaching 340 thousand, while the number of deaths has exceeded the threshold of 14,700 units. The healed reach almost 99,000. And what emerges from the latest bulletin released by Johns Hopkins University. To be exact, the number of people infected is 339,259, the number of deaths has reached 14,706, while the people recovered are 98,834.
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