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March 09, 2020 "Today is the moment of responsibility. We cannot let our guard down." So Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaking of the new measures against coronavirus among which the overcoming of the red areas stands out to move instead to a single protected area for the whole of Italy ..

Measures
"I am about to sign a measure titled 'I will stay at home'. We no longer have time, we must all give up something, we must all do it immediately." Having ordered the ban on gatherings on the whole territory, it is a war on nightlife. The whole country becomes a protected area and there will be "no movement except for proven work or health reasons and we have added the ban on gathering outdoors or in outdoor places".


Mattarella and the regions
"I heard the president of the Conference of the Bonaccini Regions", to confirm that the Regions also agreed with the measures. "Clearly I also informed the President of the Republic of the initiative".

More deficits
The government could ask the EU for more flexibility margins on the deficit. "We have agreed on a request for a variation of 7.5 billion, we are thinking about the possibility of pre-establishing a slightly higher request, but I don't want to anticipate anything which does not mean using this availability immediately".

No sport
"We are having a significant increase in the number of people infected and deceased. We cannot allow the matches of the football championship to continue, sorry to say it, but the fans must take note of it. Gyms must remain closed for sports activities."

Closed schools
"Throughout Italy the activity of schools of all levels and universities is suspended until April 3." The content of the CPM enters into force tomorrow morning.

Today's point of Civil Protection
There are 7,985 coronavirus patients in Italy, with an increase of 1,598 people compared to yesterday. The new data was provided by Commissioner Angelo Borrelli in the press conference to the Civil Protection. The total cases thus rise to 9,172 in our country, 1,797 more than yesterday. Of these, in fact, 7,985 are currently positive, 724 the total healed (+102 over yesterday) and 463 the victims (+97).

There are 4,316 inpatients with symptoms, 733 are in intensive care and 2,936 are in home isolation. In detail, there are currently 4,490 positive cases in Lombardy (with 646 healed and 333 deceased), 1,286 in Emilia-Romagna (with 30 healed and 70 deceased), 694 in Veneto (30 healed 20 deceased), 337 in Piedmont (13 deceased ), 313 in the Marche (10 deceased), 206 in Tuscany (one healed and one deceased), 94 in Lazio (3 healed and 5 deceased), 119 in Campania (1 healed), 97 in Liguria (5 healed and 7 deceased) 89 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (3 healed and 1 deceased), 52 in Sicily (with 2 healed), 46 in Puglia, 33 in the autonomous province of Trento, 30 in Abruzzo, 28 in Umbria (with one healed and 3 victims), 14 in Molise, 19 in Sardinia, 15 in Valle d'Aosta, 9 in Calabria (with 2 healed), 9 in the autonomous Province of Bolzano and 5 in Basilicata.

724 people have been healed. 463 have died, however this number can be confirmed only after the Istituto Superiore di Sanità has established the actual cause of the death. Borrelli has specified that mainly fragile and pluripathology patients have died: "For the deaths 1% is in the age group 50-59, 10% 60-69 years, 21% between 70-79, 44% 80- 89 years old, 14% over 90 years old ".

325 new fans started delivery
"The delivery of 325 ventilators, respirators for intensive care has started, distribution starts tonight in Lombardy, 90, in Piedmont 56, 174 in Emilia Romagna, 5 in Liguria," Borrelli said.

Delivered 1 million masks
"The delivery of the masks and other devices has also continued - added Borrelli -. We have arrived at a delivery of over one million masks".

100 thousand masks in prisons
"Tomorrow we will deliver one hundred thousand masks to the penitentiary institutes to allow the regular use of the activities within the institutes and 80 tents will be set up for pre-triage in the district houses".

Boccia: "All ski lifts closed"
"We have decided to close all the ski resorts in the country". The Minister for Regional Affairs, Boccia, said in a press conference, clarifying that "we have had reports about the invitation, to Abetone, to students with closed schools to go to the mountains. An absolutely shameful and out of place speculation" , he clarified. "Since the message of self-discipline has not passed, we have decided unanimously with the regions to make this choice. Everything will be closed tomorrow."

Gallera: "Brescia worries"
"The province of Bergamo continues to record significant growth in coronavirus cases. There are 1,245 positives, with an increase of 248 cases compared to yesterday. But let's see how the province of Brescia also has an equally strong growth: we reached 739 cases , 238 more than yesterday and is one of the areas of greatest concern ". The councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera, said during the direct Facebook in which he took stock of the situation on the coronavirus emergency in Lombardy. "The province of Cremona is also growing - added Gallera - where there are 916 cases, with an increase of 251 people. There is also growth in Lodi, but it is increasingly contained. In the province of Milan, the cases have reached 506, with an increase of 100 people, while in Pavia they reached 296 cases. The rest of the region still has a relatively limited presence "he concluded.

In the direct Facebook Gallera spoke of the "awareness that either we intervene in these hours, in the next 4-5 days, at most in the next 2 weeks, with virtuous behaviors, or in this great battle for the intensive care places that we are winning not I know if we will be able to ensure that our healthcare system is solid and efficient. "

"Patient 1 improved, breathe alone"
The 38-year-old from Codogno, the so-called 'patient one', "was transferred from intensive care to sub-intensive care. He was 'stubed' as he began to breathe autonomously", Gallera later announced, speaking of the coronavirus emergency.

Puglia: expected peak between late March and early April
"In Puglia, for what are our forecasts, the peak could come in late March or early April." This was said, in relation to Coronavirus, the governor of the Puglia region, Michele Emiliano, who also posted a Facebook message. "Italian health care - Emiliano said - is not all the same. Lombardy was a giant and you have seen in what conditions it was placed by the epidemic, therefore it is necessary to slow it down further. We hope that the Prime Minister will adopt the measure that tonight we asked "said Emiliano again, that is" to extend the legislation already foreseen for Lombardy and a part of Emilia and Veneto to the whole national territory. It is a matter of suspending non-essential activities for a fortnight, twenty days, so - Emiliano noted - to have a substantial slowdown in the infection and thus allow health systems to withstand the wave of the peak ".