• Coronavirus. Conte 'closes' Lombardy and 14 provinces. Southern Regions: quarantine for those returning

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March 08, 2020 In the usual afternoon meeting with the press, the head of the Civil Protection, Borrelli, said there were 6,387 positive cases (+1,326 compared to yesterday), of which 3,557 hospitalized, 650 in intensive care and 2,189 in self-isolation.

The healed are 622 (+33 compared to yesterday) and 366 died (+133, of which 113 in Lombardy, 8 in Emilia Romagna, 5 in the Wind, 2 in Liguria and Lazio, 1 in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche and Puglia).

Tonight Conte's decree
"Constraint to avoid any movement" in Lombardy and in 14 provinces of Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Piedmont, Marche. Prime Minister Conte signs a decree that limits the possibility of movement in the areas most affected by the Coronavirus. It is not an "absolute ban", he explains: it will be possible to move for work, emergencies and health reasons. But the police will be able to stop citizens and ask them why they are moving to the areas most at risk. "I take political responsibility" for these decisions: "We will make it," says Conte late at night. Last night many left Milan for the south from Garibaldi station. The Dpcm coronavirus was later published in the Journal.

In addition to Lombardy, the measures concern the provinces of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Pesaro-Urbino, Alessandria, Asti, Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Vercelli, Padua, Treviso and Venice.

The request of 9 Regions: table with government
"Activate immediately, with absolute urgency, a discussion table between the Government, the Regions and the autonomous Provinces". This was asked by the governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Massimiliano Fedriga, with the presidents of Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria, Sardinia, Sicily, Abruzzo, Umbria and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano. Together, in fact, they signed a request for immediate confrontation, by videoconference, with Prime Minister Conte regarding the provisions of the latest decree on the coronavirus emergency ".

Gallera: drastically reduce social life
"We need to drastically reduce any type of social activity: it is the only weapon to reduce the spread of the virus". This was stated by the Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera, in the direct Fb where he took stock of the coronavirus emergency in the region. From the Dpcm, he added a "strong warning, a formal position: travel from home to work and from work to home is allowed" in addition to those "strictly necessary related to eating, medicines, and health emergencies". Because he said "there are no specific drugs to fight coronavirus, we try to give drugs for other types of viruses but we have no certainty that they will work and a vaccine will be ready in months".

"In Lombardy 4189 positive, 769 more than yesterday"
"Today's numbers are those of an increasingly difficult battle," said Gallera in the usual press point in the Lombardy region. "There are 4189 positives in Lombardy, with a growth of 769 since yesterday. In intensive care we have reached 399 people with an increase of 40. 756 are people in home isolation. 550 are the people discharged. The number of deaths is rising to 267 people, an increase of 113. 87% of the dead are over 75 years old, 11% are between 65 and 74 and 2% between 50 and 64 years old ".

"Government will have to give decree interpretations"
"The decree signed overnight by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte created" doubts "in the citizens: Gallera then said, adding that" the interpretations will have to be given by the government that wrote it, only partially accepting the indications of the Region ". Gallera explained that it is possible to move to go to work or for health reasons, because "the productive activities at this stage the government believed should be preserved".

"Food stores will be supplied, no gatherings"
"I have seen rows of people again in front of supermarkets, but there is no need to stock up on groceries, because the supply to supermarkets and food stores remains guaranteed. Indeed, the gathering in the shops that brings people must be avoided. to stay too close. Don't worry because food supplies are guaranteed. " This was stated by the councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera.

Mayors of Lodigiano a Conte: clarify about displacements in the area
The mayors of the municipalities of Lodigiano inserted in the so-called red zone by previous government measures ask for clarification from the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, on how to interpret the provisions contained in the new Dpcm which entered into force today.

"Considering that the Dpcm of 8/3/2020 lends itself to multiple interpretations, in order to provide certain and precise answers to citizens as well as to the various production activities in the area, we mayors of the 'red zone' of the Lodi area, we are requesting urgently - reads the letter - authentic interpretations of the provision, with reference to the contents of article 1 paragraph 1 letter a) "as well as within the same territories, except for journeys motivated by proven work needs".

The mayors of Codogno, Casalpusterlengo, Castiglione d'Adda, Somaglia, Maleo, Fombio, San Fiorano, Castelgerundo, Bertonico, Terranova dei Passerini sign the letter.

Veneto Region: disproportionate measure
Veneto opposes the creation of the three isolation zones in the region envisaged by the Dpcm. In the counter-deductions sent to the Government, the technical scientific committee supporting the Crisis Unit had asked for "the removal of the 3 provinces of Padua, Treviso and Venice from the decree". In the face of circumscribed clusters, "and which do not affect the general population in a widespread manner, it is not understood - it is written in the counterclaims - the rationale for a measure that appears scientifically disproportionate to the epidemiological trend".

The accompanying letter to the counterclaims underlines that "the commitment shown by the" regional health system contrasts "with a measure of extreme isolation of the identified territories, which has had no scientific or institutional comparison with the technicians of the Veneto Region" . The document summarizes, with the latest data, the epidemiological situations in the three provinces to be isolated - Padua, Venice, Treviso - included in the Dpcm. "The study and constant evaluation of the trend of the cases and the search for contacts, in addition to the organizational effort for the hospitalization of patients both in the infectious disease wards and in intensive care - it is written - demonstrate the commitment of the regional health system" .

First died in Tuscany, 53 new positive cases
There are 53 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Tuscany in the last twenty-four hours. And there is also the first death: a seventy-nine year old with multiple pathologies and an already complex clinical picture at the start, hospitalized yesterday, Saturday, at the hospital in Pisa and died on Sunday morning. To confirm whether the death is attributed to the virus must be the Higher Institute of Health, which is also responsible for validating the positivity of the swab.

Yesterday there were 34 new positives registered in Tuscany. The number of people infected since the beginning of the emergency therefore rises to 166, including three clinically healed people, one dead and one definitively healed patient. The people currently still affected by the virus are therefore 164. Of the 53 new swabs that tested positive in the last twenty-four hours, 19 were analyzed in the virology and microbiology laboratory of Careggi, 26 in that of Pisa and 8 in Siena. The data were sent from the offices of the Department to the Ministry of Health.

This is the division by province of reporting or hospitalization to date, which may not coincide with that of residence: 39 in Florence, 13 in Pistoia and 3 in Prato (total Asl center: 55); 26 in Lucca, 21 in Massa Carrara, 17 in Pisa, 10 in Livorno (total Asl Nord-Ovest: 74); 4 in Grosseto, 24 in Siena and 9 in Arezzo (total Asl Sud est: 37).

Instead, the number of people in isolation at home in Tuscany rose to 2,394, 674 more than yesterday. The data also in this case is the one updated at noon on Sunday 8 March. In detail, 984 people are taken in charge through the dedicated numbers, activated by each Local Health Authority: 482 (there were 412 Saturdays) in the central Asl (Florence-Empoli-Prato-Pistoia), 396, 326 more in twenty-four hours, in the ASL northwest (Lucca-Massa Carrara-Pisa-Livorno) and 106, fifty-three less than on Saturday, in the southeast (Arezzo-Siena-Grosseto). The other 1,410 cases in isolation are close contacts of positive cases: 168, five less twenty-four hours apart in the Central Asl, 483 (eighty-nine more than the day before) in the North West and 759 in the South East, or two hundred forty-seven in more than on Saturday.

In total, 1364 people have been tested since the beginning of the emergency, of which 1188 negative, 166 positive and 10 in progress.

Lazio Region, 84 positive cases
"84 cases in the Lazio Region are positive for # Covid19, over 3 recovered. Of these, 26 are in home isolation, 47 are hospitalized not in intensive care and 8 are hospitalized in intensive care". The Lazio Region communicates it.

Southern Regions: measures for those coming from the North
Quarantine obligation for those arriving in the south from Lombardy or from the area of ​​the 14 provinces delimited as "red areas" by the new decree of the Prime Minister. It is the 'heart' of the ordinances that issued Puglia, Calabria, Campania, Sicily, Basilicata and Abruzzo in these hours.

The decree
It was two in the morning when Conte went down to the press room of Palazzo Chigi to illustrate the measurements. In the final dpcm there are some generalized ones for all of Italy, including the stop at pubs, discos, game rooms and cinema and theater events. And there are others, much more rigorous, which cover a large part of northern Italy. "There is no longer a red area - the premier explains - it will disappear from the municipalities of Vo 'and the Lodi area. But there will be an area with stricter rules that will cover the whole of Lombardy and then the provinces of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Pesaro and Urbino, Alessandria, Asti, Novara, Verbano Cusio Ossola, Vercelli, Padua, Treviso and Venice. Movements will be limited until April 3 - to give just two examples - except for the possibility of returning to own home, and bars and restaurants will have to close at 6 pm and for the rest of the day, they must keep a distance of at least one meter, whoever has a fever of 37.5 is invited to stay at home, who is in quarantine is strictly forbidden to go out.

Other measures
Meanwhile, schools throughout Italy remain closed. And Conte assures that work is also being done on the front of economic measures: on Monday or Tuesday, as soon as a draft of the 7.5 billion decree announced by the government is ready, it will meet with the opposition But, he stresses, it is the government that manages it. The other front on which the government operates is the health one: the premier announces the signing of a contract for the all-Italian production of 500 devices per month of resuscitation, with the aim of doing more. And also the increase in the production line of protective devices such as masks. But as hospitals struggle in areas where infection is strongest, the prime minister also announces the possibility of redistributing patients across regions. Meanwhile, the appeal to citizens is "to enter into the perspective of responsibility, without cunning" but accepting some restrictions: the government, Conte assures, is making its own taking "courageous" decisions.

Alitalia: flights to Malpensa suspended tomorrow
"From Milan Malpensa, with effect from 9 March, the activity will be suspended after the arrival of the flight from New York AZ605, with landing scheduled at 10.40, until April 3." It is one of the decisions communicated by Alitalia as part of the flight reorganization plan determined by the needs related to the coronavirus emergency.