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29 October 2020 "The virus circulates much less in schools than in the country,

80% of the infected are asymptomatic

and 

families today are at the center of the infections

, unlike what happened in March when the RSA were at the center of the infections. at the beginning of the pandemic there were few areas in Italy affected by the virus, today Covid is everywhere in our country ".



These are the first figures given at a press conference by the commissioner for the Covid emergency in Italy, Domenico Arcuri.



"We are in a new and different drama than a few months ago. In a few days the infections are 7 times more than last October 7, the virus multiplies quickly and its growth is impetuous even if it does less damage".

It is necessary to cool the growth of the virus because "with these numbers no health system would be able to withstand the Italian one," said Arcuri.

It is evident that if we do not cool the curve we will not be able to follow and face this qualitatively different and impetuous growth of infections compared to last March. 



"School is not a hotbed of infections

", Arcuri assured, "infections enter the school but do not leave the school. We hope to keep the lessons at 75% online, the value of the school is not in question, we make an effort to stay as much as possible. I do not agree with the decision of the governor Emiliano to close schools in Puglia "



" The government measures are intended to cool the curve, but in addition to the virtuous combination of these measures, a

new pact of responsibility found among citizens is

needed

.

In the first phase of the emergency, the Italians have shown that they are responsible, even if they are deprived of their freedom, obviously prevention is needed: hygiene and prohibition of gathering by now we all know but we need a further sacrifice,

we must all move as little as possible ".



The commissioner then provided the numbers of the pandemic in our country: "We have the problem of overcrowding in hospitals, and with infections of this magnitude the first effect that occurs is their crowding together with the emergency rooms. We have done more than 200 thousand today. tampons, the traced people are 10 times more. This is the first evidence of the multiplication of the curve that we have to cool, but we all know what we have to do: let's move only when necessary.



"The measures in other European countries are twice as high as for example in France and this explains what are the consequences of this impetuosity of the virus.



"" Today in Italy there are 26 thousand positive Italians, and if each of them has 10 close contacts, the count is quickly made: 260 thousand Italians are aware that they are potential infected, with this example we understand that in 20 days all Italian citizens should be traced.

We have distributed 1 billion and 206 million free devices to citizens, 552 million free masks to schools ". 



" We have made 12 million 674 thousand tampons in Italy, we hope to do 200 ila a day, and from Monday another 100 thousand molecular tests, therefore 300 thousand in total per day, a number that we believe to be sufficient, in March they were

26 thousand

,

12 times less than today ".



" As for

Immuni

, 10 million Italians use it, but we have to implement it ".



" There is no entropy of

intensive care,

in March there were 5,000,000 acute care, since then we have distributed more than 3,000 fans, there are 8,488 today.

They are beds that can be activated for intensive care.

So there are 10,337 beds that can be activated in intensive care, more or less double in March, and a little less than those set in the program of interventions on the pandemic emergency established in two years.

If we have 3,309 nine ventilators, it means that we still have a margin of intervention for the treatment of

non-covid patients ".



" We are in a tragedy, it is not the time for controversy

, today is the moment of truth: we have never underestimated the problem in recent months and that sooner or later would come to us, we are making every effort, a number is worth a thousand words, but I hope not to hear more appeals not to use masks and to those who deny the problem, us every day and we stay here at night to work so that you can better face this wave ", concluded Arcuri.