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Coronavirus, Mattarella: “Trust in Italy, we will overcome the emergency. Observe the government’s indications against contagion”

March 6, 2020

“The government – to which the Constitution entrusts the task and the tools to decide – yesterday established a series of indications of daily behavior, suggested by scientists and experts of value. They are simple, but important to avoid the risk of widening the spread of the infection . I would like to invite everyone to carefully observe these indications: even if they may temporarily change some of our life habits. By respecting those criteria of behavior, each of us will concretely contribute to overcoming this emergency “. It is the heart of President Sergio Mattarella’s three and a half minute video message on the Coronavirus emergency.”It is the responsibility of the control room set up by the government to take – unequivocally – the necessary decisions in collaboration with the Regions, coordinating the various competences and responsibilities. Therefore, particular initiatives that deviate from the indications taken at the coordination office should be avoided”. A reference, the latter, which seems to be addressed to the Regions.

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It is an invitation to responsibility, to institutional collaboration, in a very delicate moment in the life of the country. Mattarella recalls that respect for constitutional hierarchies is needed: it is the government that decides. But at the same time the government is invited to speak with one voice.Mattarella cites for example the inhabitants of Lombardy and Veneto. “Our fellow citizens of the so-called red areas are doing it with great seriousness. I thank them for the way they are facing the sacrifices they are subjected to. I wish to express sincere closeness to sick people and great solidarity with the families of the victims. The moment we go through requires involvement, sharing, harmony, unity of purpose in the effort to defeat the virus: in institutions, in politics, in the daily life of society, in the media “.

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The Quirinale invites us to face this tough test with balance. But there is also a call to the opposition, which can be read with an invitation to the political truce.

“Italy is going through a particularly demanding time. It is dutifully facing it with full transparency and completeness of information towards public opinion. The trap of a new virus that is hitting many countries around the world is causing concern. This is understandable and requires everyone a sense of responsibility, but we must absolutely avoid unmotivated and often counterproductive states of anxiety “.

So the praise to the doctors on the front line, but also the invitation to support them quickly, with new entries of health personnel. In fact Mattarella says: “We are a great modern country, we have an excellent national health system that is operating effectively and with the generous self-sacrifice of its staff, at all professional levels. We will overcome the condition of these days. Also through the necessary adoption of extraordinary measures to support the work of the health workers constantly engaged for days and days: measures for the introduction of new staff to support them and to ensure the effective availability of equipment and materials, checking it in all hospital locations “.

In short, we will get out of this situation. “Without imprudences, but without alarmism, we can and must have confidence in the skills and resources we have. We can and must have confidence in Italy”.

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