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The Italian Vice Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, has estimated that the number of coronavirus infections in the country will begin to register a marked decrease within a maximum period of 10 days, according to an interview with the BBC chain.

"In recent days we have seen an increase in cases but it has been due to an increase in tests, " he explained in the interview, at a time when the country is approaching the threshold of 100,000 infections .

" We are at the peak of the epidemic , and I think that in a week, 10 days maximum, we will see a significant decrease in cases," he estimated.

According to the balance of Saturday, 889 people died since Friday across the country from the coronavirus, to a total of 10,023 deaths, and the number of new cases increased slightly to 5,974, for a total of 92,472 infections.

"I believe that the containment measures are working," he asserted, before positively evaluating the Italian government's response, despite everything. "The truth is that we have had very bad luck. Many of the outbreaks were concentrated in a very active area of ​​the country, Lombardy, and we never found 'patient zero' (the first transmitter of the disease)," he explained.

The virologist at the University of Milan Fabrizio Pregliasco has also agreed with this estimate. "Although the numerical value is increasing, we are clearly perceiving a slowdown in growth. We have not yet entered the phase of decline but it is a good sign," he explained to La Repubblica .

Food vouchers to prevent looting

In addition, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced that the government will distribute food vouchers to the most disadvantaged, especially affected by the interruption of economic activity in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The announcement came after the police had to deploy officers to monitor supermarkets in Sicily , after some looting, also in towns in the south of the country.

The government unblocked funds worth 400 million euros "destined for the municipalities, which will have to dedicate them to people who do not have money to buy food," the prime minister explained during a press conference at the Chigi Palace in Rome, seat of government. "This will allow food bonds to be issued," he said.

"We have to build a chain of solidarity, nobody will be left to their fate," he promised. "Our goal is to guarantee liquidity to families, companies and working people . "

And it is that the pandemic of Covid-19 accentuated the precariousness in which a large part of the Italian population lives, especially in the south and in Sicily, where the police deployed agents this Saturday in front of supermarkets to prevent possible robberies.

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