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Fourth victim in Italy for coronavirus. It is an 84 year old from Bergamo. There are currently 153 infected in the country, Italy has become one of the main fronts in the fight against coronavirus outside China. It remains behind only South Korea (602 cases), surpassing Japan (stopped at 135, according to data from Johns Hopkins University). The Italy case now alarms all of Europe and in particular neighboring countries, with France, Switzerland and Austria not excluding any countermeasures if the situation worsens.

Austria first decided and then lifted the blockade of rail traffic on the Brenner Pass. The blockade had been decided after a train from Italy had two German passengers on board with a fever. The train, with 300 passengers on board, stopped at around 15 in Verona, where two people with flu symptoms were dropped, judged by 118 not to be suspicious. The train then left the Brenner pass shortly before midnight.

Romania has placed quarantine for all people arriving from Lombardy and Veneto, after a 40-year-old woman from Bucharest who returned home became the country's first suspect case.

"I was surprised by the numbers, they were kept under control until recently - says Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in connection with 'Half an hour more' on Rai3 - The maximum precautionary line paid off, even if it seems not. We must pursue the line of utmost precaution. We are trying to identify and limit outbreaks, we will do everything possible to contain the infections ".

Commissioner Angelo Borrelli has announced that the Army has made available for quarantine 3,412 beds in over a thousand rooms, while the Air Force has given about 1,750 of them. "We have also made a survey with the regions for hotels and we are ready to use them."

Coronavirus cases are definitely on the increase in our country and only in Lombardy, currently, there are over 150 as stated by the governor Attilio Fontana. And he added: "Let's wait to see the results of the measures taken yesterday that will make a contribution to slowing down and stop" the infection. "Nobody - he added - thought the spread was so aggressive".

"We must not be frightened if the number grows - says Conte - adding that" just signed the implementation decree which sets limitations for 14 days for the areas identified as the hubs of the infection ". It is clear that they are sacrifices, but we repay them with greater assistance, with the utmost attention to their health. I ask for trust but I trust them: we must create an alliance, a pact in the collective interest ".

Basilicata: "Quarantine for those coming from the North"
"All citizens who return to Basilicata from Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Liguria or who have stayed there in the last 14 days must remain in quarantine at their home for 14 days, communicating their presence to the competent health services public ". An ordinance on Coronavirus issued by the President of the Basilicata Region, Vito Bardi, provides for this. With the provision of the Lucanian governor it was also stipulated that "the mayors of all the municipalities of Basilicata in collaboration with all the other municipal institutions will censor citizens from the same regions".

Mayor Ischia: Port closure? It's not about racism
"Yesterday, together with the other four mayors, we thought of prescribing a precautionary act, in view of the contagion of the coronavirus. This ordinance was canceled, because the Prefect found a lack of competence on the part of us mayors. An initiative must be implemented that allows to limit the virus, preventing it from spreading. We are trying to protect our communities, against a risk that, objectively, there is, avoiding transforming the island of Ischia as the cruise ship left in quarantine " . The mayor of Ischia (Naples) says it, Enzo Ferrandino. "We are not fomenting - adds Ferrandino - any alarmism. According to the data, the outbreaks are mainly identified in Lombardy and Veneto. In those areas restrictive procedures have been implemented, such as the closure of schools and universities, banned demonstrations, etc. Yesterday, coaches with more than 100 people from those areas were headed. This is not an act of racism, but precautionary tools are needed in this emergency phase. It is essential to build health cords ".

But let's see, in more detail, what is the situation on our territory.

LOMBARDY
One of the provisions of the regional ordinance - issued to stem the coronavirus emergency - provides for the "closure after 18.00 of the commercial entertainment and leisure places such as pubs and discos, but not restaurants. In these hours it may be that the resolution is enriched of other elements "finally announces Gallera. Throughout the Region schools and universities closed until February 29, masses were suspended. In Milan, the Duomo closes for two days, the Scala stops, skips the 'Green Fair', Armani and Biagiotti parade 'behind closed doors', Armani closes the Milan offices and production sites in Lombardy, Emilia for a week Romagna, Veneto, Trentino and Piedmont. The San Raffaele hospital closes the intensive care and neurosurgery departments to the public, in municipalities such as Sesto San Giovanni (which records a positive case), also the closure of the shopping centers.

VENETO
Like Lombardy, Veneto closes schools and universities (until March 1) and stops all demonstrations. Vo 'Euganeo, the Venetian outbreak, remains armored and waits to be' belted 'by the Army, while in Venice the Carnival is canceled and, in application of the order of the Region, the masses stop, including those of Ash Wednesday and those on Sundays, from liturgies and to devotions such as the Via Crucis. In place of the festive precept and Ash Wednesday, the faithful are invited to "a time convenient for prayer and meditation, possibly also helping themselves with the celebrations broadcast by radio and television", said the patriarch of Venice, Msgr. Francesco Moraglia.

The Teatro la Fenice, Malibran and the municipal museums of Venice will also remain closed due to the Coronavirus emergency in Veneto. The City of Venice ordered it, after a meeting in the evening with the managers of Ulss 3 Serenissima, in application of the measures decided in the Region-Ministry of Health ordinance to counter the spread of the virus. All the mayors of the Metropolitan City of Venice attended the summit. Also in compliance with the Coronavirus ordinance, the administration has ordered that the Actv / Avm group proceed with the extraordinary disinfection of vaporetti and public service buses.

PIEDMONT
The Region closes schools and universities for a week, stops the Ivrea Carnival and locks museums, cinemas and gyms until next Saturday.

Italdesign stops production
An Italdesign employee, who works at the production plant in Nichelino (Turin), tested positive for Coronavirus. For this reason, the company has decided to close, starting today "as a precautionary measure", the Italian factories, including the Moncalieri headquarters. The Italdesign employee tested positive for Coronavirus - according to what has been learned - is one of the three cases already ascertained in Piedmont.

THE 'RED AREA' AND THE 'YELLOW AREA'
Lombardy has been divided into two "zones": a "red" and a "yellow". The first is "that of the Lodigiano area where the infection is more widespread where everything has unleashed where the government's measure has gone in the direction of preventing citizens from entering and leaving" explains the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana. Here 500 police men will check 35 gates and through sterile corridors they will bring in drugs and food. "A measure with which the territory is secured", he explains. The rest of Lombardy falls within the "yellow zone", which concerns the order signed by the Lombardy Region.

THE SITUATION IN OTHER REGIONS
TRENTINO
Three cases of coronavirus also ascertained in Trentino. The president of the Province Maurizio Fugatti has made it known, explaining that it is a Lombard family who arrived on Friday in Trentino for a holiday and coming from one of the outbreak areas of the virus. The family resided in an apartment and has already been transferred to a Lombard hospital. The three accused fever between 37 and 38 degrees and tests revealed positivity to the virus. Spallanzani's counter-analyzes are awaited.

SOUTH TYROL
The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the kindergartens on the South Tyrolean territory will be closed from today until Sunday 2 March for health prevention reasons as required by ministerial decisions following the spread of the coronavirus. The decision of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano follows that made by the cousins ​​of Trentino yesterday evening. In South Tyrol until Sunday 2 March kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools are already closed for the carnival holidays. The closure at this time therefore concerns nursery schools and the offices of the unibz of Bolzano, Bressanone and Brunico. All activities at the NOI technology park in Bolzano and the structures related to the university were canceled.

FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA
Considering the territorial contiguity with the Veneto, urgent measures taken from tomorrow to March 1st included. The suspension of events or initiatives of any nature, of events in public or private places, both in closed places and open to the public, including those of a cultural, recreational, sporting or religious nature; discos and night clubs. It is expected that the educational services for children and all schools and universities will be closed, with the exception of doctors in specialist training and trainees of the health professions, except for distance learning activities. Museums and institutes and places of culture closed (libraries and archives, archaeological areas and parks, monumental complexes).

All educational trips both within Italy and abroad have been suspended and individuals who have entered the Friuli Venezia Giulia region from epidemiological risk areas must be obliged to communicate this circumstance to the Prevention Department of the competent health authority.

The hospital health departments must provide for the limitation of the access of simple visitors to the hospitalization areas, preferably one person per patient per day. Intermediate health facilities, such as Rsa, shelters for the elderly and social-welfare structures will also have to limit visitors' access to guests. It is strongly recommended that health personnel follow the preventive measures for the spread of respiratory infections as well as the rigorous application of the indications for the sanitization and disinfection of the environments foreseen by the ministerial circulars. Daily disinfection of regional trains and all local public transport by land, by air and by water must be prepared by the competent bodies. The insolvency procedures are suspended with the exception of competitions for healthcare personnel.

LIGURIA
To prevent the risk of contagion, the University of Genoa has decided "as a precaution to suspend all teaching activities (lessons and exams) for a week starting tomorrow, Monday 24 February". The rector of the Paolo Comanducci University announced it this morning. The decision, "in order to help reduce the movement of large numbers of subjects, given the large area of ​​origin and the number of students of our University".

LAZIO
The Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome has ordered the postponement of the admission test to the Degree in Medicine and Surgery scheduled at the Fiera di Roma for Tuesday 25 February. Over 2,800 candidates from all over Italy are enrolled in the test, a part of which comes from the northern regions subject to restrictions by the relevant institutions. The Lazio Region is also adopting the suspension, until further notice, of the conduct of the competition tests, whose written tests are established for the days 25, 26, 27 and 28 February 2020. Details on the Lazio Region website.

Two suspected cases of Covid-19 for two boys from Nettuno (Rome). The mayor Alessandro Coppola, in a press release, informs that the two boys were taken to the Spallanzani in Rome for the checks in the morning. "The Spallanzani hospital will read the results of the test carried out on the boys of Nettuno" - reads the Mayor's note released late in the evening "only today around 12.00 and after having performed all the procedures provided for by the health protocol. The Neptunese boys were taken from home and taken to the Roman hospital. The organization is in constant contact with the health authorities ".