Coronavirus. Italy, 76 positives and 2 deaths. Extraordinary measures. Veneto and Lombardy: sports stop

2020-02-23T09:20:14.378Z

Coronavirus infections are increasing in Italy. 76 people were found positive: 54 in Lombardy, 17 in Veneto, 2 in Emilia Romagna, 2 in Lazio (the couple of Chinese tourists at Spallanzani) and one in Piedmont. Two, however, the victims, one in Veneto and another in Lombardy. Testing continues for people who have had contact with the infected. Yesterday the checks on a girl hospitalized in Vasto and on a suspected case in Umbria were negative. The alleged 'zero patient' reiterates that he never had the virus. Stable conditions for the 71-year-old in Milanese The 71-year-old pensioner Mediglia, in Milanese, tested positive for coronavirus, is hospitalized at San Matteo in Pavia and his conditions are stable. The mayor Paolo Bianchi said this to Ansa. "The health authorities are reconstructing its movements as per protocol, they are carrying out an epidemiological investigation" explained the mayor, who had already advised the population the day before yesterday to avoid public demonstrations and any form of gathering. "We await new indications to understand how to behave, for this - he concluded - I asked to be summoned to the Region tomorrow". Kluge (WHO), contagions are a mystery in Italy "What worries about the Italian situation is that not all recorded cases seem to have a clear epidemiological history, that is, a link with travel to China or contacts with other confirmed cases", notes the director of the World Health Organization in Europe, Hans Kluge, interviewed by Repubblica on the spread of coronavirus. Ricciardi, arrivals from China had to be isolated "We pay for the fact that we did not immediately quarantine the landings from China. We closed the flights, a decision that has no scientific basis, and this did not allow us to trace the arrivals, because at that point it was possible to stop and arrive from other places ", says Professor Walter Ricciardi, member of the WHO executive council, interviewed by La Stampa. THE EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES OF THE GOVERNMENT Prohibition of removal and entry into the 'hotbed' areas of the virus, which will be manned by the police and, if necessary, also by the military, with criminal sanctions for those who violate the prescriptions. The government has launched extraordinary measures to contain coronavirus in Italy. The ban is imposed on school trips in Italy and abroad but also for public events. Schools, shops and museums will be closed, competitions will stop, private work activities and public offices, without prejudice to essential services, limitation on the movement of goods and people. First effects of the CDM rules, skip the students' trip "The vice-principal warned us this morning, let's not leave". The first effects of the government's provisions to deal with the coronavirus emergency: the bus that was supposed to bring 30 students from the Umberto I boarding school in Turin to Madonna di Campiglio, the destination chosen for the trip on the snow of the Christmas holidays, was stopped. "We had an appointment in Piazza Arbarello, but they informed us before the trip is no longer done," explains the mother of a student. The party consisted of sixty people in all: with the thirty students, of all classes, there were in fact also thirty adult escorts. "Everything was ready, my daughter started to cry - the mother still tells - We regretted it, but rightly so: we must take precautions, health comes first of all, especially that of children ...". SPORT IN VENETO AND LOMBARDIA STOPPING It will be a different Sunday today in Lombardy and Veneto. The government has canceled all sporting events in the two regions affected by coronavirus including the three Serie A matches between Inter-Sampdoria, Atalanta-Sassuolo and Verona-Cagliari. The decision came at the end of the Council of Ministers, which closed a feverish day that had already seen, from a sporting perspective, the announcement of the postponement of Ascoli-Cremonese, a race valid for the 25th day of Serie B.