Meanwhile, the Quirinale has spread the text of the message that Sergio Mattarella he did get to his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier: “Here decimated a generation of elderly reference point for the youngest,” reads. “I hope that the experience of Italy is useful on a global level.” And, is the conclusion of the head of state: “Now we need European solidarity”. To worry the authorities in these hours continue to be the very high numbers of the infection. Only yesterday, 800 deaths were registered in 24 hours and the infected people exceeded the figure of 54 thousand. Among the positives there is also the mayor of Cremona Gianluca Galimberti who gave the announcement on Facebook: “I have to slow down the pace a bit,” reads. Cremona, together with Lodigiano, Bergamo and Brescia is among the areas most affected by the coronavirus emergency.
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17:22 – A 34-year-old man who arrived from Spain died in Tor Vergata
“A 34-year-old man hospitalized in severe conditions in intensive care died at the Policlinico of Tor Vergata in Rome. It came from a trip to Spain. ” This was announced by the Department of Health of the Lazio Region on its social networks. “The epidemiological investigation is underway by the ASL Roma 2 and an autoptic examination has been requested – adds the department – to ascertain the causes of the death. Examination that will be performed at the national infectious disease institute Lazzaro Spallanzani “.
17:16 – Ordinance is awaiting the new decree, which will be in the Gazette only tomorrow
The rationale of the new order signed by ministers Luciana Lamorgese and Roberto Speranza, it is learned, is to avoid the flight of people to the south after the further stop to production activities announced yesterday to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. The measure will be contained in the new decree which will go into the Official Gazette tomorrow. In the meantime, this ordinance is in effect.
16:50 – New ordinance: forbidden to move to another municipality
From today it is forbidden for all natural persons to move or move by public or private means of transport to a municipality other than that in which they are located, except for proven work needs, of absolute urgency or for health reasons. This is established by the order adopted jointly by the Minister of Health and the Minister of the Interior which will remain effective until the entry into force of a new decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, referred to in article 3 of decree law number 6/2020. .
16:48 – 12 positives among civil protection personnel. Negative borrelli
Some employees of the Civil Protection Department tested positive for Coronavirus. The news broke the news Head of the Angelo Borrelli Department informing all staff on duty. “Immediately after receiving the news of the first positive case, the Department set up checks on the personnel considered among the close contacts of the positive employee. Unfortunately, others emerge from this screening eleven positive people. The Head of Department tested negative for the swab. ” “All the protection procedures envisaged have been started and sanitization activities have been carried out in the workplace. In order to protect all those who work in the two offices of the Department in Rome, further provisions have been made for carrying out the essential work activities in a smart working mode and to limit the presence of staff as much as possible in the offices in Via Vitorchiano and Via Ulpiano. In addition, the meetings of the Operating Committee will continue daily through the videoconference connection “.
16:26 – Center-right: “Mattarella receives us, rooms open to the bitter end”
Immediate and indefinite summons of the Chambers and the possibility of being received by the President of the Republic in the ways and forms deemed most appropriate, in light of the new rules. These are the requests made by the opposition jointly by Matteo Salvini (Lega), Silvio Berlusconi (FI) and Giorgia Meloni (FdI). “It is essential to restore its centrality to Parliament – is the position of the three leaders – in order to fully exercise the powers entrusted to it by the Constitution, to legislate and control the activity of the Government.
16:25 – Basilicata also prohibits entry and exit journeys
Ordinance no.10 of the President of the Basilicata Region, Vito Bardi, is being published in the Official Bulletin, with which further restrictive measures are taken to reduce the contagion from Covid – 19. Among the measures provided for, the ban on the movement of people entering and leaving the region, with the exception of proven working needs aimed at guaranteeing the provision of essential public services or serious health reasons. The violation of the provisions implies the obligation of the offender to observe the home stay with fiduciary isolation together with all the cohabitants.
16:21 – Modified the provision in parliamentary committees to respect distancing
The new geography of parliamentary committees called to examine government measures on the coronavirus emergency is ready at Palazzo Madama. The Senators Quaestors, in view of the work from 23 to 27 March, fixed the available places in respect of the social distancing. The commissions will thus be able to meet in the Legislative Hall, in the Koch Room (38 seats + 4 at the presidential desk), in the classrooms of the fourth (27 seats + 3 at the presidential desk) and of the tenth Commission (21 seats + 3 at the presidential desk). presidency), as well as in Sala Nassiriya, the one reserved for press conferences (20 seats + 4 at the presidential desk). In addition, by partially modifying a recent resolution, on the days of Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 March the concierge offices of Piazza Madama and Via degli Staderari will be open (i.e. the main entrance and the one most used by employees and guests).
16:05 – In Abruzzo 68 new cases. Altogether 587 positives and 33 deaths
In Abruzzo, since the beginning of the emergency, 587 Covid 19 positive cases have been recorded, diagnosed by tests performed in the Pescara regional reference laboratory, also through the Teramo Zooprophylactic Institute. Compared to yesterday, there was an increase of 58 new cases. The Region’s Health Prevention and Protection Service communicates this. There are 587 positive cases, including 33 deceased patients
16:04 – In Lazio 193 cases and 3 deaths
15:54 – The John XXIII retirement home in Rome is isolated
The Giovanni XXIII retirement home is isolated, which houses 66 elderly people. All the nuns who work at the Vannini hospital are swab negative. ” Asl Roma 2 underlines this in today’s bulletin of the Lazio Region Health Department. There are 18 new positive cases registered in the territory of the healthcare company, 44 people have come out of surveillance. “From tomorrow, an additional 32 beds will be available, which will become 62 at the Pertini hospital,” said the company.
15:52 – In Sicily deaths rise to eight
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Sicily rises to eight, with two new victims. It is an 84-year-old man who died at the Garibaldi Nesima hospital in Catania and an 86-year-old woman who died at Umberto I in Enna. Both patients with multiple other serious conditions had tested positive for Covid-19. In total there are 630 positive cases recorded since the beginning, but currently 596 result because 26 have already healed and 8 died. This is the division of the current positives into the various provinces: Agrigento, 39; Caltanissetta, 26; Catania, 225; Enna, 29; Messina, 108; Palermo, 81; Ragusa, 8; Syracuse, 48; Trapani, 32.
15:51 – Di Maio: “Masks from the Czech Republic and Turkey”
“A few minutes ago I received a letter from the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, who assured me that we will send 110 thousand masks within the next 48 hours. These are the same number of masks that were supposed to arrive in Italy in the past few days and that were instead seized by the Czech authorities. 200,000 detainees have also been released in Turkey. So the question is resolved, let’s move on “. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio made this known on Facebook.
15:35 – “The challenge is to assist people at home before the hospital”
“In our country territorial services are not completely absent and we have a strong commitment from family doctors. The care of people in the area must be enhanced and I believe that the legacy that this epidemic will leave us will be the importance of strengthening these services. Today the challenge however is that people are cared for at home, or if it is not possible in hotel and protected structures, before arriving at the hospital “. This was stated by Silvio Brusaferro, president of the ISS guest of Half an hour more on RaiTre.
15:23 – Boccia (Confindustria): “Allow functional activities in continuity of the essential ones”
Confindustria “is facing with a sense of responsibility” the government’s decision to suspend non-essential production activities. And underlines, with a series of precise indications, “the need to reconcile the tightening decided yesterday with some priority needs of the productive world”. It is necessary, for example, “to allow the continuation of activities not expressly included in the list and which however are functional to the continuity of those deemed essential”. The president Vincenzo Boccia writes it in a letter to the premier Giuseppe Conte. For companies, it will also be “decisive”immediately untie the credit node and more generally of liquidity “. It is necessary, stresses the leader of the industrialists, “to prevent this situation from producing irreversible consequences for businesses and that entrepreneurs lose hope in the future continuation of activities”.
15:16 – Arcuri: “100 companies ready to produce masks”
“Tomorrow the new incentive of Cura Italia will start: we have made 50 million euros available to Italian companies that want to reconvert or start the production of individual production devices. Today we produce very few, but in a few days we have over 100 companies ready to go “. Domenico Arcuri, extraordinary commissioner for the Coronavirus emergency, said so. Arcuri also noted that “180 companies from the fashion chambers came together and created two supply chains for produce two million a day of masks. The goal is to have a sufficient share of national production in a short time “.
15:08 – Arcuri: “From next week protective devices for all Italians. Today we will distribute 150 fans “
“Until now, 1 million masks have been distributed. Yesterday we distributed 3 million, in the next week we hope to be able to increase this budget. From tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest, all regions will have masks for doctors, health workers and the sick. ” Domenico Arcuri, commissioner of the Coronavirus emergency, says so Half an hour more. “Starting from the following week, we plan to then give all Italians personal protective equipment. We need 90 million masks a month. ”
15:07 – Trade unions: “From the territories they ask us what to say to the workers who don’t know if tomorrow they have to go”
“The dl must arrive today. Companies must close tomorrow. ” Luca Trevisan has no doubts as the organizational secretary of Fiom in constant contact with a large part of the Italian industrial structure, conversing with the Adnkronos. “We are overwhelmed by requests, in the territories there is a frantic wait to understand how to implement the government’s indications. The company RSUs basically ask what to say to the workers, whether or not they have to go to the factory tomorrow, “he explains.
14:15 – Only 32 percent of Lombards on the move today
Compared to a normal day, 32% of Lombards moved within the region. The vice-president of the Lombardy Region Fabrizio Fontana has made it known. On March 17, the data provided by telephone companies on travel within the region indicated the trend of population movement just above 40%. “Now it is a matter of assessing what will happen on weekdays, after the Lombard ordinance and the governmental tightening of production activities:” Tuesday we will have the data on Monday “said Fontana, predicting that” mobility will drop a lot “.
14 – Fontana: “We have reached the limit, even physically”
“You have to stay home to protect yourself and others” from the coronavirus threat. This is “the main message we want to send” even with the order announced yesterday, reiterated the governor of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, during a press point transmitted via the web. “We have really come to the extreme even physically,” the president warned, speaking of “our medical, nursing staff, all those who work in the Crisis Unit, who drive ambulances. We must make sure that the numbers “of the epidemic are reduced, he urged again,” that the infection slows down and goes downhill instead of uphill “.
13.30 – Yesterday 11 thousand reported for violation of the rules
Yesterday the police forces checked 208,053 people and 11,068 were reported, in application of the measures to contain the infection, another record. 75,362 controlled businesses were registered, 142 operators were reported and 20 businesses were suspended. Thus rise – informs the Interior Ministry – to 1,858,697 people controlled from 11 to 21 March, 82,041 those reported for failure to comply with the order of the authority, 1,943 for false declarations; 910,023 controlled businesses and 2,119 the owners reported.
13.15 – First awakening in intensive care at the Cremona hospital
On the most tragic day for Lombardy, yesterday there was positive news for the intensive care of the Cremona hospital, where doctors and nurses are engaged in the battle against coronavirus. Finally, a patient, a 52-year-old woman, has awakened, and it is the first time that has happened for thirty days in that ward, where people in serious conditions are hospitalized, intubated in deep sedation. For many the virus is lethal and the others, as soon as their conditions stabilize, are transferred to other facilities to make room for new patients, who are constantly on the way.
13 – Milan, semi-deserted stations
In an almost deserted station, that of Porta Garibaldi in the Lombard capital, only a few dozen people, more or less thirty in all, got on the Frecciarossa Milan-Naples train at 9:48 am this morning. After the mass departures of the last few days, with the announcement of the first containment measures for the Coronavirus emergency, therefore, the feeling this morning at the Porta Garibaldi station is that few people have traveled south from Milan, where from today, as in all of Lombardy, new restrictive measures are in force which have ordered, among other things, the closure of some public offices, professional offices and construction sites.
12.45 – Journalists union: “The exceptional phase cannot be an excuse to prevent questions”
“It is necessary that, even in formal communications of measures intended to produce effects for the community, the contradiction with journalists never fails.” Raffaele Lorusso and Giuseppe Giulietti, secretary general and president of the national Federation of the press, affirm this in a statement. “The exceptional phase that the country is experiencing cannot become the pretext to prevent journalists from doing their job and asking questions. Whoever has government responsibilities, at all levels, has a duty to answer journalists’ questions because citizens have the right to know. Article 21 of the Constitution is fully in force, no matter how bad advisers and improvised spin doctors think of it. ”
12.25 – Room: “I share the new measures”
“Two new ordinances have been issued, one by the Region, one by the Government. I think it is necessary that I tell you that I share the contents and I think it is right to behave in this way and stick to these rules “. So the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, commented on the new tightening imposed by the Region and Government to contain the infections from Coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Cremona, Gianluca Galimberti, announced he was coronavirus positive and quarantined. “I have a fever and a little cough and cold, but I don’t have breathing problems and I hope I won’t have any in the next few days. I have to keep myself monitored and slow down because I am not in shape, but I continue to work from home. ”
12.20 – Room: “The first hotel in Milan for quarantine is required”
There is “a new initiative that we are putting in place: the Hotel Michelangelo” in Milan, “near the central station, was a hotel already closing before the virus. Now we are taking it to make it available to the prefecture and the health authority thinking that it will be useful for those who will have to quarantine. ” The Milanese mayor, Beppe Sala, explained this in a live Facebook aftermath of the new squeeze against the coronavirus emergency.
12.13 – Salvini: “We will ask for a meeting at the Colle”
“We will all ask President Mattarella for an urgent meeting so that everyone can make their contribution to help the Italians, the man alone (or the couple alone) in command is not enough to save the country. In spite of everything, Friends, good Sunday: we will make it. ” The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini wrote on Facebook.
11.47 – Thursday, first Alitalia flight from China with 3 million masks
Alitalia has prepared, in coordination with Civil Protection, the first of a series of freight flights with China for the transport of medical material for the management of the Covid-19 emergency. The company reports. For this first humanitarian flight, a Boeing 777-300ER will be used, the aircraft, explains a note, with greater load capacity of the company. Take-off for Shanghai scheduled for Wednesday with return to Rome on Thursday 26 March with stowed 160 cubic meters of supplies, including approximately 3 million protective masks.
11.38 – Calabria closed until April 3
“I have just signed an ordinance that provides, with immediate effect and until April 3, 2020, the prohibition of any movement of natural persons entering and leaving the regional territory. You can only enter or leave Calabria for journeys deriving from proven working needs related to the offer of essential services or for serious health reasons. Offenders are subject to the immediate 14 day mandatory quarantine measure. ” This was announced by Jole Santelli, president of the Calabria Region.
11.23 – ECB, Schnabel opens at coronabond
The issue of bonds common to the euro area, able to finance the response to the economic shock of the coronavirus jointly, “could help”. And even “the one-off issue of ‘coronabond’ would be conceivable. It’s up to the politicians to decide. ” The opening comes from Isabel Schnabel, a German member of the ECB executive committee, and testifies how an opening to greater European solidarity is making its way in a part of the German establishment. “No country – says Schnabel to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – can be indifferent to what happens in another country”.
10.40 – Volunteer medical task force: 7923 questions
There were 7923 people who joined the appeal for a task force of 300 doctors who will help the hospitals most affected by the coronavirus emergency. This is the definitive datum of the ‘call that closed yesterday at 20.00. The examination of the candidates is underway. The first doctors could be operational already tomorrow, in Lombardy and Piacenza. The appeal was launched by the Minister for Regional Affairs Francesco Boccia. “We thank all the doctors who, on a voluntary basis, have joined the initiative,” reads the Civil Protection website.
9.50 – 18 doctors died in Italy, the last in Lodi
Andrea Carli, a general practitioner in Lodi, who died on March 19, is the last name to be added to the list of white lab coats that have fallen for coronavirus in Italy, drawn up by the National Federation of Surgeons and Dentists (Fnomceo). According to the latest update, dated March 21, the victims have risen to 18.
9.45 – Moscow, 9 aid planes ready for Italy
Russian aerospace forces have completed the formation of the contingent necessary to transport eight mobile brigades of military doctors, special vehicles for disinfection and other medical equipment to Italy, as announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. The Russian Defense Ministry reported it in a note. These are 9 IL-76 transport aircraft, which will take off shortly. The details of the operation were discussed by telephone between the Russian defense minister, Serghei Shoigu, and the Italian one, Lorenzo Guerini.
9 – Gentiloni: “We need new answers at an economic level”
The economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus emergency cannot be tackled with tools used in the past, because its origins and nature should not be confused with those of 10-12 years ago. The analysis is by the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni, interviewed by Sole24Ore. On the EU table, he explains, various options. These include an extraordinary fund for disease control programs, unspent structural funds, an unemployment support fund and finally coronavirus bonds. The most realistic? The one that will have the most consensus among the countries, he explains.
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