Summits in Lombardy and Rome – Meanwhile in Lombardy, the Councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera he met with experts from the main Lombard hospitals who are dealing with the emergency to take stock of the situation and decide what measures to propose to the government, in view of the expiry of the decree. The Region also met with the twelve mayors of the Lombard provincial capitals to share with them the possible proposals that will be adopted in the region. All this while in Rome the Civil Protection Summit to evaluate the effects of the measures taken two weeks ago in the red areas and their possible extension to other areas.
The contagions and the agent of Vicenza- Two weeks after the first decree with the indication of the containment measures and the identification of the first 11 municipalities to be quarantined – ten in the Lodi area and I go Euganeo in the province of Padua – the numbers say that the infection has far from stopped: there are 4,636 patients, 620 more in a day, 25 an hour, with the first case in the Vatican, 197 dead, 4.25% of the infected. All regions of Italy have cases to deal with. There Lombardy in particular, currently the most exposed, it has over 50% of the current infected and 309 patients hospitalized in intensive care out of 462 in Italy. The number of healed also grows, but not at the same rate: there are 523. The latest contagion concerns a prison officer in service at the prison in Vicenza: it is a 28-year-old boy, he carried out the swab after having ascertained the aggravation of the flu she had been suffering for a few days. He is now in a pharmacological coma.
The new red zone – The hoped-for slowdown of the virus for now has not occurred why Lombardy region and government are preparing to establish one new red zone in Val Seriana, an area where 25 thousand citizens live in the province of Bergamo, in particular among the municipalities of Nembro is Alzano Lombardo, those most affected by the virus. The decision is expected today, but the governor Attilio Fontana does not exclude the hypothesis of the “closure” of the entire Lombard territory for a month in order to try to slow down the expansion of the infections to other regions. A measure that, which second Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, “it would not make sense“Even if – he specified -” I am not the person who decides, I am only one of the members of the technical-scientific committee that reports the evaluations to the Prime Minister “. The government today will also have to decide whether prolong or not the isolation of areas already in quarantine: “We are evaluating a series of measures to be taken in general in the region, as in other areas at risk”, explained the president of the ISS Silvio Brusaferro hoping that sanctioning measures will be assessed for those who violate the quarantine or the sanitary rules spread these days. “It is not a stunt – he said – we are studying any consequences for such an act”. The decision is up to the government, based on the assessments of the Scientific and Technical Committee that were presented during a Civil Protection summit.
The rest of the world – Two weeks after the first case of the 38-year-old from Codogno, the situation is still in full swing, with Covid-2019 which worries seriously also the other States of the Old World, who begin to deal with theepidemic as already happened in Italy. L’Austria has decided to establish health checks at the Italian border: these are – explained Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz – targeted checks which will have “a limited duration of two weeks”. But the rest of the world is also increasingly isolating our country: the last case is that of the Maldives, which announced the ban on entry for travelers from Italy starting from midnight today and disembarkation for cruise ships.
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16.20 – “Pirellone employee positive”
“In the last hours there has also been a positive case in the regional council. For the moment this has led to the closure of Palazzo Pirelli with a ban on entry for the weekend, pending further measures to be established. It is not excluded that those who have attended him in the last few days may be called to self-isolation. Subscription included. We’ll see. Nobody can call themselves out of the emergency, this is proven by the contagion of the national secretary of the Democratic Party, Zingaretti “. This was written by the regional councilor of Lombardy and Pd group leader, Fabio Pizzul, in his newsletter.
15.40 – De Luca ai campani: “The problem is serious, don’t make social life”
“I think it is right to make an appeal to citizens. I think the time has come to say that we are facing a serious problem and I have the feeling that not everyone has understood this elementary truth ”. So the president of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, in a video message on the Region website. “This problem – he says – requires responsible behavior by everyone and a radical change in lifestyle. We must avoid social contacts, stay more at home. Going one member of each family to the supermarket at a time. Crowds must be avoided. I made an order to close the discos, but then I learn that the bars in the center welcome dozens, hundreds of kids, without respecting the distance of a meter. These situations are not only tolerable. There are people – he continues – who have absolutely nonchalant behaviors: we found a fellow citizen now hospitalized in the Cotugno hospital who went to a party with 200 people at the Posillipo theater on 21 February, 22 in a restaurant, 26 in a pizzeria , on the 29th he started to feel bad and is now intubated at Cotugno. Do we need to repeat again that we must limit the participation in these holidays, that we must eliminate these holidays? I make a convinced appeal to our citizens to understand that the situation is serious and we have a duty to contain the infection. We can do it if we are all responsible, otherwise the situation becomes really heavy. Give us a hand to face all this with reasonableness and serenity “.
15.10 – China, hotel collapses with people in quarantine
A hotel building in Quanzhou that collapsed as a coronavirus quarantine center collapsed. This was reported on China Daily. At least 70 people were trapped under the rubble. Rescue operations are currently underway.
15.00 – Gravina: “If there is a positive player, stop in the championship”
“In the case of a coronavirus-positive player, we cannot rule out the suspension of the championship.” The president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, said it on the RAI microphones.
14.55 – Latina, 93-year-old woman died hospitalized in Fondi
“Fondi, 93-year-old woman died at the Fondi Hospital. Epidemiological link with the party. Waiting for the covid19 test result “. The Department of Health of the Lazio Region announces it in a post on Facebook.
14.50 – Mayor of Alzano: “Uncertainty creates discomfort”
“We are waiting to receive government indications for any new measures on our territories. It is a situation of uncertainty that certainly creates discomfort: but this must not distract us from our main mission, which is to contain the infections “. The mayor of Alzano Lombardo (Bergamo), Camillo Bertocchi said this in a video message on Facebook. “Unfortunately, the only tool we have available is that of rigorous compliance with the rules and each of us has a fundamental role in the containment of infections – he added, listing the rules issued by the Higher Institute of Health -. There are very few rules but they are fundamental for the containment of the infection: I recommend, we continue to keep lucidity, rationality and diligence in compliance with these rules, which together we will make it: come on Alzano! ”
14.40 – Emiliano: “In Puglia 2539 health workers are needed”
The Puglia Region has asked the national government to hire 2,539 health workers to deal with the coronavirus emergency. In detail – on the basis of the needs calculated by the Health Department – 678 doctors, 1,191 nurses and 599 social and health workers are needed. “The situation in hospitals is under control – explains the governor Michele Emiliano – the number of cases is still manageable with respect to our capabilities. But we all know that the infection is evolving and it is our job to outline the possible scenarios to be ready to face a higher number of hospitalizations “. It serves staff in intensive care, first aid, in infectious disease wards, pulmonology, cardiology and internal medicine. “Our request – continues Emiliano – is part of the plan to strengthen the beds of infectious diseases and intensive care that will take place throughout the territory and which I will explain in detail as soon as possible, to better face the Coronavirus emergency”. “The hires will also be extra organic resources – he explains – and in the fastest way: through public notices or by drawing on the already active rankings. Doctors, nurses and health workers are the strength of our hospital network. An infinite thank you to all of them ”.
14.35 – Meeting between Lombardy Region, experts and mayors is underway
The meeting between the Councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera and the experts of the main Lombard hospitals who are dealing with the coronavirus emergency to take stock of the situation and decide which then propose measures to the government, in view of the expiry of the decree.
At 2.00 pm, a meeting is scheduled, by video link, with the twelve mayors of the provincial capitals of Lombardy, precisely to share with them the possible proposals that will be adopted in the region.
2.30 pm – Four new positive cases in the provinces of Siena and Arezzo
There are three men in the Sienese, a 55 year old from Poggibonsi, a 37 year old from Chiusi and a 34 year old from Chianciano, now at home under active surveillance. According to what has been learned, the 34-year-old and the 37-year-old are connected to the already known cases of Chiusi: today they are 11 in total. The 55-year-old is instead connected to the cases of the dance competition in Chianciano: six in total so far. A sixty year old from Foiano della Chiana, now in intensive care in Arezzo, who had been hospitalized on March 3 for an important bronchopathy at the Cortona hospital, tested positive in the Aretino.
2.20 pm – Italian anesthesia society: “Possible age limits for intensive care”
In the Coronavirus emergency, “it may be necessary to place an age limit on entry into intensive care. It is not a question of making merely valuable choices, but of reserving resources that could be very scarce to those who have the greatest chance of survival first and secondly to those who can have more years of life saved, with a view to maximizing the benefits for the most Number of person”. To say this are the doctors of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (Siaarti) in the technical document “Recommendations of clinical ethics for admission to intensive treatments and for their suspension, in exceptional conditions of imbalance between needs and resources available. ” This text has also been disseminated and published in full on the Siaarti website, and is addressed to doctors. According to the scientific society, the document aims to “provide support to the anesthesiologists-resuscitators currently committed to managing” the maxi-emergency “that has no precedents for characteristics and proportions”.
14.15 – Infected US sailor stationed in Naples
The European Command of the American Army has announced that an American sailor has tested positive for coronavirus. He is the first member of the US service in Europe to be infected. The sailor was stationed in Naples, Italy. The US European Command has not provided any further details. The military says the sailor is “currently in solitary confinement and receiving medical attention.”
14.10 – Two more victims in the Marche
The Gores, the organism of the Marche Region that is following the evolution of the contagion, has sent a new update of the Coronavirus situation in the Marche: 200 positive cases registered by the Sod Virology of Torrette so far and two new deaths have been recorded : one in Marche Nord (a seventy-eight year old man with multiple pathologies) and one at the Torrette regional hospital (a 59 year old man with previous multiple pathologies).
14.00 – Piedmont Region calls for more restrictive measures
The governor Alberto Cirio wrote to the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, on the containment measures in place in Piedmont asking to evaluate more restrictive ones. “In light of the evolution of the contagion in Piedmont and the comments that have been expressed to me by the Crisis Unit, I asked Prime Minister Conte and the Minister of Health to evaluate a greater tightening of the measures decided by the Government for our region. The increased growth of cases of contagion in the last 48 hours, makes us think that the containment in place is not enough “.
13.55 – Genoa, goes to the emergency room and is positive: checks on the staff who assisted him
A citizen of Egyptian origin coming from Lombardy, to Genoa for work reasons, was hospitalized in the infectious ward Policlinico San Martino because positive to Covid-19. The man arrived in the emergency room accompanied by 118 operators in fair general conditions: after the medical history, negative due to contacts, he was treated in the emergency room where he was swab and then transferred to infectious diseases. The emergency room nursing coordinator summoned the operators who came into contact with the patient who were subjected to a swab. The results will take place in the evening. At San Martino, therefore, 5 hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases department.
13.50 – Sardinia: 11 infections
Three new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded by the Regional Crisis Unit. Two citizens of Cagliari and one of Sardara. In Sardinia, therefore, the number of cases rises to 11. The Region has made it known. In one of the cases, the patient, returning from a trip, promptly placed himself in voluntary isolation at his home without coming into contact with anyone. In the other two cases, the infection occurred by contact with one of the patients who tested positive in Sardinia and by contact with a relative living in the island from another region.
13.45 – Angelus and Pope Francis’ audiences on video
Regarding the events of the next few days, the prayer of the Angelus of the Holy Father on Sunday 8 March will take place from the Library of the Apostolic Palace and not in the square, from the window. The prayer will be broadcast live by Vatican News and on screens in St. Peter’s Square and distributed by Vatican Media to the media that request it, so as to allow the participation of the faithful. The press office of the Holy See announces it, specifying that the General Audience of Wednesday 11 March will take place in the same way. These choices are necessary to avoid the risk of spreading the Covid-19 due to gatherings during the security checks for access to the square, as also requested by the Italian authorities. In compliance with the provisions of the State Health and Hygiene Department of the Vatican City, until Sunday 15 March the participation of faithful guests at Masses in Santa Marta will be suspended. The Holy Father will celebrate the Eucharist privately.
13.40 – Siena, truck driver rescued for road accident turns out to be positive
Truck driver rescued for an accident is then positive, in isolation the team of firefighters intervened and the crew of the ambulance that rescued him. It happened yesterday in Arezzo. In particular, five firefighters have put themselves into self-isolation, as a precaution as required by the provisions: they are located in a barracks room. Already sanitized the environments and the means of the same command from which it is made known that there are no repercussions for the service.
13.30 – Aosta Valley: 8 infections
The number of cases tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus test in Valle d’Aosta increases to eight. The latest ascertained resides in the municipality of Roisan, near Aosta, and has been placed in precautionary isolation in his home. There are now 57 quarantine patients in several municipalities in the Alpine region.
13.10 – First death in Friuli, 15 health workers in isolation
There 87 year old woman guest of a municipal facility for the elderly in Trieste, hospitalized urgently in the emergency room of the hospital in Cattinara (Trieste), she died this morning. The patient tested positive for Covid-19 swab during a diagnostic investigation that became necessary. This was announced by the Fvg Region by voice of the deputy governor with responsibility for the Health of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Riccardo Riccardi, from the headquarters of the regional civil protection of Palmanova (Udine) where he has been following the evolution of the situation linked to the coronavirus emergency in this morning region. It is the first death related to Coronavirus in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The staff of the healthcare company, while adopting all the precautionary forms with personal protective equipment as required by the latest government decree both during the rescue and hospitalization, has placed in precautionary isolation at home 15 health workers who are came into contact with the patient and the sanitary surveillance of the nursing home guests was activated.
13.00 – The EU response to Italy on overcoming deficit: “Ok one off”
“The one-off costs incurred to cope with the spread of the epidemic are by definition excluded from the calculation of the structural budget and are not taken into account in the assessment of the adequacy of the budgetary effort envisaged under current rules.” This was stated by the Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis and the Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, in his reply to the letter sent to Brussels on 5 March last by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Roberto Gualtieri, to illustrate to the Commission European the decision to propose to the Italian Parliament a Report to obtain the authorization to deviate from the programmatic deficit foreseen in Nadef 2019 in light of the Covid-19 emergency. In their reply, Vice President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni, stress that the European Commission “praises the efforts of the Italian government and people, who are contributing considerably to curbing the spread of Covid-19 in the European Union”.
12.55 – Fifth positive case in Salento, he is 48 years old from Melendugno
A 48-year-old lawyer from Melendugno tested positive for Coronavirus. This is the fifth case in Salento. The 48-year-old is now hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of the Galatina hospital, where he tested positive for the first swab made in the triage tent set up at the hospital entrance. The news is confirmed by the mayor of Melendugno, Marco Potì, who activated the municipal operations center (Coc) at the town hall. The tent where the swab was made has been sanitized. The 48-year-old’s wife and children were placed in a trust quarantine, pending an epidemiological investigation. As far as we know, the 48-year-old was in Venice from 22 to 24 February. For several days he had a fever and had warned the local health authority. This morning he decided to go to the hospital in Galatina. Confirmation of counteranalysis is expected in the next few hours.
12.50 – NICOLA ZINGARETTI POSITIVE AT CORONAVIRUS
Lazio Region President Nicola Zingaretti is positive for coronavirus. It was he himself who announced it in a video posted on Facebook: “The doctors told me that I am positive for Covid19. I’m fine but I will have to stay home for the next few days. From here I will continue to follow the work that needs to be done. Courage to all and see you soon. The ASL is contacting the people who have been closest to work for the necessary checks and verifications in these days. Obviously I have informed the vice president of the regional council, Leodori, to continue the work, as well as the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party Orlando, with the bodies in charge, will follow all political activities. I’ve always said don’t panic, let’s fight, as ever at the moment – concludes Zingaretti -. I will set a good example by following the instructions of doctors, science, trying to help out working from home for what will be possible and fighting as it is right to do at the moment for each of us and for the whole country “.
12.48 – Chinese couple towards resignation from Spallanzani
The Chinese couple’s resignation from Spallanzani for the next week is being evaluated, the first known cases of coronavirus in Italy and now cured. This is learned from hospital sources. The conditions of the police officer, admitted to the same institution, would also improve
12.45 – Positive penitentiary agent in Vicenza: in a pharmacological coma
A penitentiary agent, in service at the prison in Vicenza, in a coronavirus positive result, is in a pharmacological coma. According to Adnkronos, it is a 28-year-old boy who carried out the swab after seeing the worsening of the flu he had been suffering from for a few days. “The pharmacological coma is used to help him in breathing. It is a complex situation, we are seriously worried, “says Luigi Bono, Vicenza provincial secretary of Sappe (Autonomous Police Prison Syndicate). The Vicenza prison hosts about 400 prisoners and 200 prison officers work there. “We get many calls from worried colleagues. We ask -conclude- that an immediate verification of the sanitary conditions of the prison operators in service in Vicenza and of the prisoners present in the facility be carried out “.
12.40 – Positive dialysis operators at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan
Some dialysis operators from the IRCCS San Raffaele hospital in Milan have tested positive for the new coronavirus. After a nurse from the ward contracted the infection outside the facility, Adnkronos Salute learned, the entire staff of the ward was subjected to a swab and the positive cases quarantined. From the hospital, they ensure that the chain of infections has remained limited to dialysis, which has been sanitized and has started working with other staff. At the moment, they specify, there is no consequence on patients.
12.30 – Positive patient, the doctors of Cortona hospital in quarantine
Admitted on 3 March for an important bronchopathy, a patient from the Fratta hospital in Cortona (Arezzo), a 60-year-old heart patient from Foiano della Chiana, then tested positive for the coronavirus: he is currently in intensive care at the San Donato hospital in Arezzo. The discovery was made last night, as a result the ASL immediately prepared the self-isolation of the concerned health personnel, about ten people, and ordered investigations and precautionary measures for patients, family members and visitors to the hospital room where he was the 60-year-old hospitalized. Already sanitized, informs the ASL, all the environments of the Fratta garrison. The mayor of Cortona Luciano Meoni announced the positivity of the sixty year old: “Unfortunately, a case of coronavirus has been found at the Fratta hospital. The patient is not Cortonese. I invite everyone to remain calm and to continue their lives normally in compliance with the rules that have already been communicated “. The words of the mayor of Cortona were signed by the colleague of Foiano della Chiana Francesco Sonnati: “It is not the time for panic or fear but for collaboration”.
12.20 – Municipality of Milan activates home school support for disabled students
During the period of suspension of school activity due to the coronavirus emergency, pupils with disabilities from schools in Milan will be able to receive educational assistance at home. “The prolonged period of suspension of lessons – explained the Councilor for Education of the Municipality of Milan, Laura Galimberti – must not prevent us from continuing to take care of the most fragile children and young people who attend our schools. With this decision, we meet their needs, those of their families and those of accredited bodies which will thus be able to resume their activities “. The Municipality has therefore decided to authorize the home interventions of the educators, on the basis of the peculiar characteristics of the individual pupil, agreeing in advance the intervention with the family, with the support teacher and with the educator and following the development of one specific temporary educational plan. The interventions can be activated, as the Municipality explains, in compliance with the indications of the Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 4 March.
12.15 – Bologna, 2 positive at the Maggiore hospital, 50 in solitary confinement
Two cases of coronavirus positivity at the Maggiore hospital in Bologna. An obstetrician was admitted to the Infectious Diseases department of the Sant’Orsola Hospital after having tested positive at Covid-19. In addition to the woman, a patient who was hospitalized in intensive care in recent days following a road accident also tested positive for coronavirus. According to what is learned, about fifty health workers who have undergone the test and are currently in preventive isolation: 10 have worked in contact with the midwife and investigations are also underway also in relation to the profession of women. Another 29 are health workers, including doctors and nurses, subjected to the swab after interacting with the patient admitted to intensive care. To these are added the 10 people who came into contact with the patient of Gaggio Montano, subsequently deceased, five of whom had visited him on his arrival at the Maggiore hospital: the man had been brought to the hospital for reasons not related to the coronavirus and subsequently he had tested positive.
12.10 – Positive doctor of the Sant’Anna hospital in Como
A health worker working in the surgery block of the Sant’Anna hospital in Como tested positive for coronavirus. The reports it Province of Como, explaining that there was a temporary closure of the operating rooms in the facility. The staff will be swabbed on Monday, who returned home with the recommendation to always wear the surgical mask. Como is currently one of the provinces least affected by the virus, with 11 cases.
12.05 – Spallanzani from Rome: “37 positive patients, all in good condition except 8”
At the moment 71 patients are hospitalized at Spallanzani. “There are 37 covid positive patients.” This is what emerges from Spallanzani’s medical bulletin today. “All hospitalized patients are in stable clinical conditions except for eight who have bilateral interstitial pneumonia on antiviral therapy and who need respiratory support. The clinical picture of some of them is stable or in marked improvement “is highlighted in the bulletin adding that” several resignations of patients already negative on the first test and in any case asymptomatic are expected in the day ”
12.00 – Piedmont: 175 infections, 36 in intensive care
175 people tested positive for the coronavirus test in Piedmont. This is what the Region communicates. 118 hospitalized patients, including 36 in intensive care: 7 in Asti, 6 in Vercelli, 6 in Tortona, 4 in Giovanni Bosco, 4 in San Luigi di Orbassano, 3 in Molinette in Turin, 1 in Alessandria, 1 in Maria Vittoria of Turin, 1 in Biella, 1 at Martini, 1 in Cuneo, 1 at Mauriziano of Turin. Another 52 people are in house isolation. Five deaths. So far 918 tampons have been performed in total in Piedmont, 644 of which have been negative.
11.50 – Bergamo tourist admitted to Palermo is stable
The conditions of the Bergamo tourist admitted to the infectious diseases department of the Cervello hospital remain unchanged. The woman on vacation in the city and tested positive for coronavirus tests, is “without fever and in good general condition”, they explain from the hospital. The other members of the group who had arrived in the Sicilian capital to spend a few days discovering Arab-Norman Palermo remain in quarantine at the hotel. For them, however, the hotel doors could soon be reopened: the swabs made again in recent days were all negative.
11.45 – Veneto, 23 dead and 543 infections
The cases of coronavirus positive people in Veneto are also rising today, reaching 543. There have been 32 new cases registered since yesterday evening. The latest report from the Veneto Region explains this. Compared to yesterday, the count of the deceased also rises: there are 13, following the death of another patient in Padua. The greatest increase was found among residents in Padua (+14), followed by Vicenza (+7) and Venice (+4). Inpatients rise to 164 (+9), those in intensive care to 41 (+2).
11.30 – Vice president of the Marche regional council in isolation
Voluntarily and as a precaution, the vice president of the Marche regional council Renato Claudio Minardi decided to isolate himself in his home in Fano after learning the news of a person who tested positive for the coronavirus buffer with which he had, on Tuesday 3 March , even a minimal contact. “I reported the case and I followed the indications provided by the Ministry of Health and the Marche Region for prevention and correctness towards others, right from the start,” he explains in a note. “I am fine and I do not present any symptoms – he underlines – but it is absolutely necessary to follow simple prevention rules to contain the spread of the infection, in order to protect everyone’s health”. “Those who have been in contact with me in the last few days will not have to undergo any precautionary measures – he concludes -. Other people who find themselves in the same situation should do it voluntarily. ”
11.25 – Palermo, positive carabiniere: he had just returned from his skiing holiday
A carabiniere of the provincial command of Palermo has tested positive for the coronavirus and is currently hospitalized in intensive care at the Civic hospital. The soldier returned from a holiday in Trentino Alto Adige on February 24, passing through Verona airport. The provincial command of the weapon confirms this. Colleagues who worked with him are in quarantine. Sanitation of the provincial command premises is being carried out.
11.20 – Trieste, positive woman hospitalized in an elderly facility
An 87-year-old lady, a guest of the Casa Serena municipal facility for the elderly, tested positive for coronavirus. The Municipality of Trieste – Department of Services and Social Policies makes it known, reporting that the assessment also took place at the Cattinara Hospital where the elderly woman, already hospitalized for another pathology, had been subjected to a routine swab. At Casa Serena, the Municipality still reports, all the appropriate prophylaxis and control measures on the guests and the staff of the structure have been prepared and are in progress. The municipal administration is already informing the guests’ relatives.
11.15 – Minister Speranza: “Strong response from the state but now citizens’ commitment is also needed”
“Last night in the Council of Ministers, we approved an extraordinary hiring and investment plan for healthcare workers. It is a strong response from the state that will have a significant impact on our ability to deal with the emergency. We must continue to work every day to guarantee the right to health for all ”. Health Minister Roberto Speranza writes on Facebook. “But I want to be clear: this effort will not be enough without the commitment of each individual citizen to respect the recommendations we have issued. This is the most important thing to win the challenge, “he concludes.
11.12 – Sicily: 35 positive cases, 8 are hospitalized
35 samples of coronavirus were sent from Sicily to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, seven of which have already been validated from Rome (three in Palermo and four in Catania). Therefore, 35 people tested positive in Sicily, 11 more than yesterday. 8 patients are hospitalized (three in Palermo, three in Catania, one in Messina, one in Caltanissetta, but from Agrigento), none of whom are under intensive care, while 27 are in home isolation. After a confirmatory test carried out in the last few hours, a patient from Ragusano was cured, while after further investigations the patient admitted yesterday to Enna was negative and was discharged. This is the summary picture of the situation on the Island made known by the Sicilian Region. Since the beginning of the checks, the regional reference laboratories (Policlinici di Palermo and Catania) have carried out 643 swabs, of which 598 negative and 10 pending the results. The Region announces that “all the infections found in Sicily are attributable to the strain of the outbreak areas of Northern Italy. Specifically, 12 cases are attributable to a cluster from Friuli Venezia Giulia “.
11.10 – Five other positive cases in South Tyrol
Testing yesterday on 5 other people tested for Coronavirus gave positive results. The total number of people infected by Covid-19 in South Tyrol therefore rises to 9. A person working in South Tyrol also tested positive in a hospital in Northern Italy. The South Tyrolean Health Authority communicates this.
As in the other cases, the outcome of the control test carried out at the Higher Institute of Health must be awaited for confirmation of the positivity. At the moment we can therefore only speak of one confirmed case in the South Tyrolean territory. The outcome of the control test on the second case of two days ago is expected for today. For the other seven cases, you will have to wait a few days. So far 51 people have been tested, in 42 cases the exam has failed.
11.05 – The Committee meeting to decide on red and yellow areas starts
Health Minister Roberto Speranza is in Civil Protection in Rome for the meeting of the Technical Scientific Committee on the coronavirus emergency. In discussion, according to what is learned, the evaluation of the effects of the measures taken two weeks ago in the red areas and their possible extension to other areas.
10.55 – The epidemiologist: “Italy is a step ahead of all European countries”
“Not having underestimated the risk has led us to be a step ahead of all European countries”. Word of the epidemiologist Pierluigi Lopalco, Professor of Hygiene at the University of Pisa, who on Twitter agrees with the popularizer Piero Angela. In the opposite tone, the epidemiologist’s response to those who complain that “essential things are being sacrificed such as the right to education, sociality, and finally the economy of a country in the name of the over 75”, “We explain to those who say these nonsense that if we leave # Covid19 free to run there will be no one available in the hospital to help those under 75 should an olive kernel go through during the aperitif ”, Lopalco tweets.
10.40 – Government evaluates national anti-gathering rules
A new squeeze to stem the spread of Covid-19 will be contained in the decree of the Prime Minister that Giuseppe Conte should sign today. Among the measures that he would talk about during the night with the ministers during the CDM, the hypothesis of establishing new red areas, with attention to the municipalities of Alzano and Nembro, but also more widespread yellow areas, now almost a certainty. As well as a new tightening for everyone: “There will be more restrictive rules for the entire national territory – explains a government source – to limit the hypotheses of gatherings”.
10.35 – 202 positive cases in the Marche
In the Marche region, 202 positive swabs for the Coronavirus test have reached 202 out of the total of 796 tested to date by the Sod Virology of the Torrette hospital in Ancona. The Region announced this by making official the Gores (Regional Operational Health Emergency) group.
10.30 – Veneto, 700 doctors on surveillance but negative to the swab can return to work
The rule proposed yesterday by Governor Luca Zaia that allows doctors placed on surveillance, but not positive at Covid-19, to return to work was accepted by the government. The Veneto Region announced this, illustrating the provisions of art.11 of the new decree. It is explained that the isolation rule “does not apply to health workers and to those of the essential public services that are supervised”, adding that these “suspend activity in the case of respiratory symptomatology or positive outcome at Covid-19”. The new formulation – highlights the Region – will allow almost 700 operators to return to hospitals in Veneto, blocked at home by the previous regulation (Decree of 23 February) on fiduciary isolation. Zaia was the one who issued the alarm yesterday to the government, asking for the modification of the national provision, given that this imposed the quarantine on health workers “in perfect health”, but only because they had somehow come into contact with coronavirus-positive patients.
10.20 – Two new positive cases in Abruzzo
In the tests carried out last night in the Pescara regional reference laboratory, two new positive cases emerged at Covid 19. According to the Abruzzo Region, the first concerns a 35-year-old man from Pescara, who reported having contacts with another positive case. He is asymptomatic and for this reason he was not hospitalized, but placed in home isolation with active surveillance by the ASL. The second was instead performed on the corpse of a man from Ortona who died in recent days from cardio-respiratory pathologies rendered on which a necropsy was performed. All safety procedures have been activated to reconstruct its movements and trace contacts. The samples will be sent to the second level laboratories for counteranalysis.
10.15 – Di Maio: “Farnesina works tirelessly to support Italians abroad”
The Foreign Ministry’s Crisis Unit and Italian diplomatic missions around the world “have been working tirelessly and in the shadows in recent weeks to support our compatriots who need help abroad. I will never stop thanking these people, women and men who are giving their contribution with great commitment. ” This is what Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio writes in a post on Facebook. “This – he adds – is the Italy that we have to tell abroad, which proves to be strong, that it does not give up, Italy proud of its people and who wants to start again with courage”.
10.00 – Bonafede: “Justice goes on with respect for health”
“With the decree law approved yesterday evening in the Council of Ministers, we have decided that for the next two weeks (from March 8 until March 22) terms and hearings will be suspended on the whole national territory. The only activity permitted will be the urgent and cannot be postponed, in analogy with the provisions of Law no. 742/1969 for the working suspension of proceedings and hearings “. So writes in a post on Facebook, the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede commenting on the measures approved by the government overnight. “In this two-week interval, the heads of the judicial offices will have the opportunity to organize the judicial activity which will resume from 23 March with all the precautions and measures provided for in the decree-law to protect the health of professionals and users of justice “.
09.40 – Brusaferro (Iss): “Closing Lombardy would not make sense”
“Close Lombardy? It wouldn’t even make sense. ” Silvio Brusaferro, president of theHigher Institute of Health, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, in which he clarifies the statements made on Friday morning during the press conference to the Civil Protection. “I am not the person who decides – he explains – I am only one of the members of the technical scientific committee that reports the assessments to the Prime Minister”. Brusaferro stresses that he has never spoken of the hypothesis of establishing the red zone for the whole of Lombardy: “When asked if we plan to enlarge the red zone I simply replied that we are evaluating the measures to be taken in Lombardy which is one of the critical areas. It is very different to talk about the red zone “. In the Region “the curve is growing as in Emilia-Romagna, we are in an intermediate phase. There is still no slowdown in the epidemic and it is on these data that we technicians must rely on evaluations and suggest the measures that could be taken to try to modify the progression of the cases “. Brusaferro points out that in Italy “for all age groups the mortality rate is lower than in China in the first phase of the epidemic. The comparison of the data dispels erroneous information that is circulating according to which the mortality from us is higher “. This is due “to the capabilities of our health service. Let’s not forget that Italy has a higher average age than China and therefore the pressure on hospitals and operators is greater by us “.
09.30 – Two new cases in Thailand: they have recently been in Italy
Two new cases of coronavirus in Thailand. The Ministry of Health has confirmed that these are two 40-year-old Thai men who have recently been to Italy. The online newspaper The Nation speaks of an “official visit”. The country’s health authorities report a total of 50 cases of infection: one person died of Covid-19, 18 are hospitalized and 31 have recovered.
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