Coronavirus is worse than expected: deaths and infections are growing

In a day 41 dead is 590 infections. The epidemic of does not stop coronavirus and the new numbers alarm: the most serious emergency remains that in Lombardy but the virus strikes throughout Italy: two weeks after the identification of the first outbreak in the Lodi area, the virus has reached all the regions of Italy, from north to south of the Boot, islands included. The last one is the Valle d’Aosta, with 5 confirmed cases. Two are members of the same family, identified after contacting the primary care physician to report flu symptoms and that a relative had been in the risk areas. The third and fourth are tourists and the fifth is a native: for all three, the Aosta Valley presidency reveals, “there have been contacts with the ‘red areas’ of Lombardy”. They were placed in precautionary home isolation, under medical surveillance, so their family members and people with whom they had close contacts. Their health is good, with mild flu symptoms.

There Lombardy continues to be most affected by Covid-19. In the last 24 hours, 431 more cases have been recorded for a total of 2,251 patients under treatment, of which 1169 hospitalized, 244 in intensive care, 364 in home isolation. The healed and discharged are 376. The dead are 98, 25 more in a single day. In the province of Lodi alone there are 658 people infected. As for the possibility of extending the red zone in the Bergamo area, where there are 537 positives, “we are evaluating, it makes sense but the government decides”, says the Regional Welfare Councilor, Giulia Gallera. In the Metropolitan City of Milan there are 197 patients, 86 of whom are in the Lombard capital. In the hinterland, between Abbiatense, Matentino and Alto Milanese, the number of confirmed positives rises to 10, including a doctor from Rescaldina and a doctor from Magenta.

L’Emilia Romagna is still in second place with 698 positives, follows the Veneto with 407 and the Piedmont with 108. Nelle Marche there are 124 infected, in Tuscany 61 and in Liguria 48. There are 44 patients in Lazio and the capital has its first victim: it is an 87-year-old woman, “who died with Covid-19 and not because of it”, explains the San Giovanni Addolorata hospital in Rome, as “cardiopathic and with severe endocarditis as a valve prosthesis wearer followed by a respiratory problem”. It goes better in Umbria, 12 cases, while in Sicily 6 are hospitalized between Palermo and Catania.