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The Head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli updated the coronavirus situation in Italy by meeting journalists. "Good news: in Lombardy there are 37 people recovered out of 305 infected". So Borrelli wanted to start. Then he gave the global situation in our country: over 528 the infected, 474 in assistance; 278 in home isolation, 159 hospitalized with symptoms and 37 in intensive care.

The detail region by region is this: Lombardy: 305 people infected. Veneto: 98. Emilia-Romagna: 97. Liguria: 11. Lazio: 3. Sicily: 3 (2 healed). 2 in Tuscany, Campania, Piedmont. 1 in the province of Bolzano. 1 in Abruzzo. The deaths: 14, also expect the results of the ISS checks for official status.

Positive collaborator, Fontana in solitary confinement
Yesterday a close collaborator of the Lombard president Attilio Fontana tested positive for the coronavirus and the governor, despite having done the analyzes and having no positivity to the virus, announced on social networks that he will live in isolation for about two weeks. In the afternoon, the press office of the Lombardy region canceled the planned press conference precisely because of health checks on a regional employee who had contacts with the crisis unit which is coordinating the Coronavirus emergency.



Hippolytus: Fountain in mask? Non-verbal signal
"I believe that President Fontana, who has a great infectious disease specialist at his side, has taken this precaution to show everyone a further signal of non-verbal communication". The director of the Spallanzani Institute, Giuseppe Ippolito said, speaking to the foreign press room, answering those who asked him if the measure taken by the governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana had been excessive to show himself on video with the mask to announce his quarantine. '' In Italy, tests were carried out beyond the indications provided by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC), for a scruple of the regions. But we will transform these additional tests into a resource for research ", said the scientific director of the Lazzaro Spallanzani Institute, Giuseppe Ippolito, during a conference with the foreign press in Rome.

"We will only communicate clinical cases"
"In Italy, efforts are being made to communicate only clinically relevant new coronavirus cases, that is, the clinical cases of patients in resuscitation or death, as is the case in other countries of the world". The scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute, Giuseppe Ippolito, said in a conference to the foreign press. The "swab positives made for any other reason will go to an extremely important separate list - he said - for the definition of the epidemiological situation".

Ricciardi: links between the two Italian outbreaks
"Italy is not an outbreak. In Italy we have an outbreak and a half: the one in lower Lombardy and the smaller one in Veneto that we managed to reconnect to the Lombard one". This was stated by Walter Ricciardi, an Italian member of the WHO Executive Council and consultant to the Minister of Health.

Gualtieri: we work on measures for the red zone, we will also ask the EU for flexibility
"We are working on the measures, we hope to have a first decree this week and a second one the next. Those already adopted could be done without a decree law, such as the postponement of tax deadlines in the red zone, but we are aware that they are not enough and therefore we work also to launch measures for all sectors directly affected by the economic effects of the coronavirus even outside the territories concerned, I am thinking, for example, of tourism but not only ". So Minister Gualtieri at 24Mattina on Radio24.

"We are ready to use" the spaces of flexibility "foreseen by the rules", he said "We make requests, we have a dialogue" with Europe, added the minister. "It is not just a single country that must use these spaces provided by the rules, but the one we will discuss, and I am sure that we will find an agreement, is the need for a common and concerted European response beyond which Italy has of the highest contagion numbers, a concerted economic policy response is needed ".

First contagion in Abruzzo, tourist from Brianza to Roseto
There is a first alleged case of Coronavirus in Abruzzo. A man hospitalized in the infectious disease department of the Teramo hospital tested positive for the first Covid-19 test. Confirmation of the infection will only come with the results of the second exam, which will be performed at the Spallanzani Institute in Rome. The Region's Health Prevention and Protection Service communicates this. The patient, residing in the lower Brianza, is in Roseto degli Abruzzi with his family, to spend a few days in their holiday home. The President of the Abruzzo Region, Marco Marsilio heard the mayor of Roseto, Sabatino Di Girolamo, who decided as a health authority to close the schools as a precaution. President Marsilio is in continuous contact with the councilor for health, Nicoletta Verí, and the director of regional civil protection who are following the reconstruction of all the movements of the hospitalized patient with the ASL of Teramo to decide the measures to be taken. Furthermore, President Marsilio is in close contact with Minister Speranza and Commissioner Borrelli, with them the Region is sharing and will share all the necessary actions to best deal with this emergency. "Abruzzo continues to remain a non-clustered region - confirmed President Marsilio - we are working and will work to quarantine the people who have been in close contact with this patient".

Puglia, first contagion
"As we had expected - announced the president of the Puglia region, Michele Emiliano - we have the first influenced person residing in the province of Taranto, it seems to come from Codogno in Lombardy, where he had visited, positive for the Coronavirus test. The test will be sent tomorrow to the Istituto Superiore di Sanità for second instance confirmation ". "The patient - continues the note - has been isolated since yesterday at the infectious ward of the Santissima Annunziata hospital in a negative pressure room. All the people with whom the subject has been in contact after their stay in Codogno will be subjected to a tampon and placed quarantined in the next few hours according to the protocols provided ".

Beware of unverified news
"There is the highest level of attention and concentration to isolate and detect the virus." So the head of civil protection and commissioner for Coronavirus Angelo Borrelli. "I also ask you to be careful to check the news, it is good that they are not taken into consideration," he added.

WHO guidelines are followed on tampons
The swabs will be performed not only on people with coronavirus symptoms "but also on those who have had contact with positive people". Commissioner Angelo Borrelli said so, underlining that "there is the highest level of attention". "Less than 4% of the swabs gave a positive result, more than half of the positive ones do not go to the hospital, and as confirmed by the WHO, the affects have 4 out of 5 mild symptoms".

Liguria is not an outbreak
"Liguria is a new outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy? From what I know the cases (11) are concentrated in a group, I absolutely don't believe it is a new outbreak".

On minors there is no official
"We have no official information" about children infected with the coronavirus. Angelo Borrelli said so. "I would also ask the press to be careful. I do not know where this information comes from and if it is not verified it is good that it is not taken into consideration, at least I do not take it into consideration. When we will have information on this point - he concluded - we will give them. "

Emilia Romagna: coronavirus positive woman gives birth to healthy baby
She had tested positive for Coronavirus; today a woman gave birth at the Piacenza hospital. The son was born healthy, he did not contract the virus. This was announced by the Councilor for Health Policies of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Sergio Venturi, during a press conference to take stock of the epidemic. There are currently 47 cases of people positive for Coronavirus in Emilia-Romagna. Of these patients, 28 are located in Piacenza, 8 in Modena, 8 in Parma and 3 in Rimini. At the moment three are in intensive care, many are at home. There are twenty cases more than yesterday.

7 minors among those infected in Lombardy and one in Veneto
The number of infected people is rising, even among children and adolescents: seven were positive in Lombardy and one in Veneto. In the case of Lombardy, positive children (as confirmed by Governor Attilio Fontana) are practically all linked to the outbreak of Codogno. In particular, a four-year-old girl from Castiglione d'Adda is hospitalized at the San Matteo hospital in Pavia, the same where the so-called Patient1 is located. The girl is safely hospitalized in the infectious disease ward. At the hospital in Seriate, in the province of Bergamo, there is a fifteen year old positive to the test, but he is hospitalized for reasons other than the coronavirus. Instead, a 10-year-old boy from San Rocco al Porto (Lodi) and one from Soresina (Cremona) returned home, who had tested positive in Trentino while on holiday with his parents (positive too). His classmates were swabbed and they all tested negative. The swab was also made to the classmates of a seventeen year old from Valdidentro, who attends the Tosi agricultural institute of Codogno, admitted to the Lecco hospital, from which he could be discharged soon. At the moment, reports the Prefecture, at least two other schoolmates, also from the province of Sondrio, have tested positive: a girl from Gordona, in Valchiavenna, and a boy from Montagna di Valtellina. Both are asymptomatic and are spending a two-week isolation period at home as well as their family. On the other hand, the tests of seven other schoolmates living in Valtellina were negative. In Padua, an eight-year-old girl was found positive for coronavirus. This is confirmed by the Veneto Region. All necessary preventive measures were taken immediately.

Campania: two suspected cases
A 25-year-old girl of Ukrainian origin from Cremona, who was hospitalized last night at the Vallo della Lucania hospital and tested positive for coronavirus, at least from the first test performed in Naples. Now we await the outcome of the pad sent to Spallanzani in Rome. The patient was transferred to Cotugno in Naples with a protected ambulance. The second suspect case is of a 24-year-old from Caserta who returned to Milan from the 24th where she works. The results will be obtained tomorrow from Spallanzani, where the tampons were sent today. The young woman had returned to the car with a group of friends from Benevento: they are being tracked for quarantine and checking if someone already has symptoms. The girl had gone to the Cotugno shortly after her arrival in the city because she felt sick. Immediately after the swab, the doctors had advised her to go into self quarantine pending the results.

Stop schools and universities in Campania
Schools closed in Campania. This is what is required by an order of the President of the Region, Vincenzo De Luca, which orders the suspension of educational activities in schools of all levels and in universities for three days starting tomorrow, February 27 to allow interventions of extraordinary pest control in relation to the coronavirus emergency, until Saturday 1st March.

Veneto: second patient discharged
Second discharge in Veneto, for a patient with Coronavirus. It is a person belonging to the Vo Euganeo cluster who tested positive for the virus on February 22 and therefore hospitalized in the hospital of Padua. Now the patient will be in solitary confinement in his home. In Veneto, coronavirus positivity rose to 87, according to the Veneto Region updated bulletin at 4.30 pm: 42 cases registered in Vò Euganeo, 5 at Mirano hospital, 9 at Venice hospital, 8 at Limena in Padua, 14 in Treviso, and 9 patients still to be associated with a cluster.

Codogno: 18 Carabinieri in solitary confinement at home
Eighteen carabinieri of the Codogno company, according to what has been learned, are in house isolation, as a precaution, after participating in a convivial meeting with their colleague on leave, which has tested positive for the virus. The meeting between colleagues had taken place on February 17th and had taken place in the barracks. as soon as they became aware of the positivity of the retired carabiniere, his colleagues reported the case to the competent authorities that ordered his isolation.

Liguria, another 10 positives in the Alassio hotel
There are 10 other coronavirus positive people in the hotels in Alassio (Savona). In Liguria there are "16 positive at the moment. One is from Spezia, 15 come from the Alassio cluster, from the two hotels. Three are still being verified and confirmed, all three from Alassio". The President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti said it during the coronavirus press point after Borrelli's intervention

Nas under inspection in Codogno hospitals, Patient 1 files seized
Medical records of patient 1 with Coronavirus seized. From what has been learned, the Nas carabinieri, on the orders of the Lodi prosecutor who opened a fact-finding investigation against unknown persons, seized the young man's medical records at the Codogno hospital. In the past few hours, acquisitions by the Nas would also have occurred, in addition to the Codogno facility, also in the hospitals of Lodi and Casapusterlengo.

Audio instigates supermarket assault, Pm investigates
The Milan prosecutors Tiziana Siciliano and Eugenio Fusco have opened an investigation for the dissemination of false news likely to disturb public order in relation to an audio that has been circulating via WhatsApp since at least Saturday and in which the voice of a woman incites "to stock up" because Milan will end up "in quarantine as the wife of one of the Region told me". The hypothesis is that that audio, listened to by many people, prompted many Saturdays to assault supermarkets.

Spallanzani: all patients hospitalized in the Roman hospital recovered
All patients hospitalized since 29 January at the Imi Spallanzani in Rome have recovered from the coronavirus. The Chinese couple, the Italian researcher (already discharged) and the 17 year old from Grado never tested positive. Yesterday, for the first time, tests conducted on the Chinese couple for the search for coronavirus were negative. On Saturday, the Italian researcher (the first infected countryman) who was in isolation to the military city of Cecchignola before being transferred to Spallanzani was discharged because he was negative and in excellent health. Niccolò, the 17-year-old boy who has been stuck twice in Wuhan, who has been well for days but must end his period of isolation at Spallanzani, should get out of the weekend. Thus ends, after a month, the nightmare for the Chinese couple, the first positive cases on the Italian territory. Thirty-nine patients are still hospitalized, reports the bulletin.

"All negative tests"
"All the tests done so far are negative." So the medical bulletin issued by Spallanzani at noon on Thursday 27 February. "The Chinese couple, currently hospitalized in ordinary hospital stay, continue on the path of resolution of clinical symptoms. The young Italian student is ending the observation period". The Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital announced this.

Dpc: extensive use of agile work in 6 regions
In the new Dpcm implementing the decree on Coronavirus, the use of agile work is expected to be extended. In fact, as established by art. 2 of the Dpcm, this method is applicable until March 15, 2020 for employers with registered or operational headquarters in the Regions of Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Liguria, and for workers residing or domiciled therein who carry out work outside these territories, at any subordinate employment relationship even in the absence of individual agreements. The disclosure obligations established by law are also fulfilled electronically also by using the documentation made available on the Inail website. "The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy communicates this.

PA Directive, those coming from affected areas must communicate it
Civil servants and those who work in public administrations "if they come from" the areas affected by the Coronavirus emergency and or who have had contact with people from those same areas "are required to communicate this circumstance to the administration". It is one of the measures contained in the directive signed by the PA minister, Fabiana Dadone, which mentions the latter also cites for "the consequent information to the competent health authority for the purpose of safeguarding the health of the workplace".

Ceriscioli: "On schools 'no' step back". Conte: "Brands create confusion and problems"
"Yesterday we had a meeting with all the ministers and the presidents of the Regions. It surprised us that after everyone had agreed on the suggested protocol, in the afternoon the Marche made a difference, a deviation. This is not good because if everyone takes initiatives to on his own there is a general confusion of the country that is difficult to manage. Arranging the closure of schools then creates problems for parents. It has only negative and not positive effects ".

The President of the Marche Region, Luca Ceriscioli - a few hours earlier - reiterated: "The government is challenging our decision to close the schools? It will be an opportunity to see who did well, us or the government that opposes it. I don't no step back, indeed the appeal will be useful for everyone, for the health of the Marches and will help the government to behave more consistently ".

81 mayors of Milanese ask for financial help
An open letter to the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, so that "you should interpret with the Government the request for concrete support for the economic and productive life of the Lombard Municipalities" affected by the Coronavirus emergency: 81 mayors from Milan wrote it, which are located in the yellow area of ​​the prevention cordon. A bipartisan appeal that comes from both center-right and center-left administrations: among the first signatories Ermanno Zacchetti, mayor of Cernusco sul Naviglio, Andrea Checchi di Pessano with Bornago, Ivonne Cosciotti di Pioltello, Chiara Calati di Magenta, Yuri Santagostino di Cornaredo and many others.

"There is a health emergency that we are facing, but an economic emergency is also opening - they explain - generated by the suspension of some services, by the closure of sports centers and gyms, by the limitation of bar hours, in general by the minor movement of people in our stores, the uncertainty of orders for small businesses and the objective ineffectiveness of smartworking in certain sectors ".

Musumeci: better if they don't come from the north
"Sicily is not a land where you cannot land and land: however, checks are needed because it is not possible that the two recorded cases of coronavirus positivity concern tourists from the North because there is no outbreak on our island. It would be better if tourists from the North did not come ". So the governor of Sicily, Nello Musumeci, speaking with reporters at Palazzo Orleans. President Musumeci has also communicated a new case in Catania , it is a positive woman with tampons.

In Musumeci, meeting journalists at Palazzo d'Orleans he continued. "We need to be very careful and on the other not to make terrorism - he reiterated - We must
continue to live: if this story lasts two years, what do we do? In the meantime, however, this situation must be managed. It is impossible for people to continue arriving in Sicily and no one checks. For this - he concluded - we ask the national government to increase controls ".