Coronavirus in Piedmont, all updates today live

According to the report illustrated yesterday to the Crisis Unit by the Regional Councilor for Health, Luigi Icardi, the growth in the number of deaths and hospitalizations in intensive care for Coronavirus in Piedmont (ALL UPDATES – THE SPECIAL) has slowed in recent days, moving away from exponential growth to follow the logistic curve. The commissioner spoke of “light signals”. After two weeks of quarantine at home, yesterday the governor of Piedmont Alberto Cirio, negative result from the double buffer, went to the Corso Marche offices to take stock of the containment measures.

13:53 – Acqui Terme sanitizes streets and urban furnishings

The sanitation operations on the urban furnishings of Acqui Terme (Alessandria), carried out with appropriate instruments and a formula based on 0.05% benzalkonium chloride, will start tomorrow, from 8 to 17, explains the Municipality. The activity will be carried out by specialized workers who will clean the benches (over 100), baskets (200), bus shelters (all), children’s play areas (7), gates and railings in Piazza della Bollente, Piazzetta Lega Lombarda, post offices, Movicentro, Municipal Police Command, the ‘little houses’ of the water, the marble flowerbed in Piazza Italia, the parapet of the Carlo Alberto bridge. Today, the road sanitation started by Econet operators has started.

13:17 – Turin, markets reopened with limited numbers

Turin is moving towards the reopening of the local markets, for food only, closed since yesterday with an order from the mayor Chiara Appendino. The areas will be fenced with orange plastic nets, inside which a limited number of desks can be set up, probably 20-25 meters apart and arranged on one side only. Customer access will be regulated and the simultaneous presence of more than two buyers at the counter will not be allowed. The choice of street vendors admitted to the markets day by day remains to be defined. Today, meanwhile, on the second day of suspension of the open-air markets, the queues of customers queuing outside the supermarkets have lengthened. The neighborhood markets of Turin are forty.

12:24 – Pinerolo Peace Judges office closes

The office of the justice of the peace of Pinerolo (Turin) closes for Coronavirus. Health authorities have ordered that all staff be quarantined until further notice. An internal note from the presidency of the Turin court informs that any urgent requests are sent by email to the office of the justice of the peace of Turin.

11:54 – Azienda Fiorentini donates 100 thousand euros to Città della Salute

The Fiorentini Alimentari company in Trofarello (Turin), which produces snacks and biscuits, donated 100 thousand euros to the University Hospital of the City of Health and Science of Turin, for the Covid-19 emergency. The donation will be used to purchase two ultrasound systems, one of which is pediatric, protective devices for hospital staff and CPAP helmets, used for patients with severe respiratory failure. “The Covid-19 emergency involves us all, without distinction – explains Roberto Fiorentini, president of the company -. We have chosen to make a contribution to a center of excellence in our area, but it was a difficult choice. It also made us to understand how terribly difficult the choices that doctors, nurses and all healthcare workers find themselves in managing this emergency “.

11:45 – By car with drugs from Aosta to Turin: arrested

Two young Valle d’Aosta were arrested by the carabinieri in Turin after an eventful chase on the streets of the Barriera di Milano district. Once they reached both, they tried to escape on foot, but were blocked. One of them also attempted to attack a carabiniere and was neutralized with the spray. There was a dose of cocaine and marijuana in the car. In addition to the arrest for resistance and violence to public officials, the complaint was made for failure to comply with the authority’s provisions.

10:58 – Protest mayors Vercellese, change of pace is needed

“As long as the Vercelli ASL notifies all the municipalities in the province of the quarantine of our fellow citizens even ten days late, how will we stop the infection?”. It is the outlet of the mayor of Borgosesia, Paolo Tiramani. “It happens in all the municipalities of our province – adds the Valsesian deputy -. Many colleagues and mayors are clamoring for a change of pace on such a delicate issue. It is not political controversy, it is the reality of the facts. There is a hospitalization on suspicion of contagion? You take the family status and put in preventive quarantine all the cohabiting partners “. The mayor of Trino, Daniele Pane, points the finger at the lack of personal protective equipment for doctors: “A medical friend called me asking if I had FFP2 masks. I gave the last I had – reports the first citizen – “The state sends our” soldiers “into battle not only without weapons, but above all without shields to be able to defend themselves. Rome, if you hit us a shot: ours die here.”

9:37 – Domodossola, violates bans and causes accident: reported

A 25-year-old boy from Domodossola was reported by the carabinieri for failure to comply with the provisions regarding travel on the national territory. The young man left the house ending up with the car against some parked vehicles. To justify himself, he told the carabinieri that he was bringing life-saving drugs to a relative, but that was not true. The military confirmed that he had gone out to spend the evening with friends and that, at the time of the accident, he was returning home late in the evening.

8:09 – Asti, the ‘Risorgeremo’ portal is born

“Times are changing, online sales are a reality, the advice is to try to buy online from the territory”. The deputy mayor of Asti, Marcello Coppo, says it in a video, launching the commercial initiative of the new free portal www.risorgeremo.it, online since Wednesday, which allows VAT numbers and Asti merchants to promote their activities. “By making online purchases – he specifies – the money arrives at the international portals, does not remain in the territory and is not used to start again. This is why the Municipality has granted patronage to the new portal, open to the local economic activities”.

8:04 – The dossier illustrated by the councilor Icardi

The dossier illustrated yesterday by the regional councilor for health, Luigi Icardi, contains the data provided by the regional civil protection from 28 February to 22 March: a graph shows that the increase in positive cases from ten days has remained below 20% daily increase, which was again recorded on March 14, when the growth of positive cases had been 23.4% compared to the previous day. Over the past five days the increase has remained below 15%. As for age groups, 37.7% of the positivity cases concerned people aged between 60 and 79, 18.7% aged 80 or over, 10.3% young people in the 20-39 age group and only 0.5 % children under the age of 9.

8:01 – Cirio: “I have always supported the penalty line”

After two weeks of quarantine at home, yesterday the governor of Piedmont Alberto Cirio, negative result from the double buffer, went to the Corso Marche offices to take stock of the containment measures. “Only by staying at home can the virus be defeated – Cirio underlined -. From the very first day I supported the penalty line to contain the infection and, while waiting for a uniform government decree to arrive throughout Italy, I wanted, like Lombardy, to issue a more restrictive measure for Piedmont. Our order should also prevail over the decree issued by Rome and we are awaiting an opinion on this from the Government “.
Among the issues the suspension of regional public offices and the closure of professional offices, points on which “we are awaiting the opinion of the Ministry of the Interior”, adds Cirio. Then there is the problem of the practical implementation of this decree on companies: “I see too many exceptions. I understand that the economic heart of the country must be slowed down, but not turned off, but I fear that between Ateco codes and supply chains many companies will be able to continue to be operational. ”

Last modified on March 24, 2020 at 2.50 pm

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