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March 11, 2020 "There are 10,590 cases of coronavirus positive in Italy, 2,076 more than yesterday, while the total number of infected people - including the victims and the recovered - reached 12,462. We said that the Lombardy data were partial and today we have numbers that make the data appear as a large number, but in reality today's growth is in the trend of the past few days ". So Commissioner Angelo Borrelli in a press conference at the Civil Protection underlining that there are about 600 patients whose data were not available yesterday.

In intensive care
Exceeded the thousand ICU patients: there are 1,028, 151 more than yesterday. Of the 10,590 patients overall, 5,838 are then hospitalized with symptoms and 3,724 are those in home isolation.

The victims
There are a total of 827 deaths: 196 more than yesterday. "Today we register 196 deaths, 2% between 50 and 60 years, the rest at an older age. 78% have previous pathologies. There are currently 10,590 infected, in this number there are also people infected in home isolation, about 600 41 people have recovered today, 1,045 in all, "said Borrelli at a press conference.

The discharged
"The total number of people healed is 1045, we have 41 more units", compared to yesterday.

Contagion in Italy
The 12462 total cases are divided as follows by Region: 7280 Lombardy, 1739 Emilia Romagna, 1023 Veneto, 501, Piedmont, 479 Marche. And again: 320 Tuscany, 194 Liguria, 154 Campania, 150 Lazio, 126 Friuli Venezia Giulia, 77 Puglia and Trento province, 75 Bolzano province, 83 Sicily, 46 Umbria, 38 Abruzzo, 37 Sardinia, 20 Aosta Valley, 19 Calabria , 16 Molise and 8 Basilicata.

Masks
"Today we have distributed over 1 million and 100 thousand masks. We have also expected further delivery in the next 3 days for ventilators and respirators in the number of 116".

Forces on the field
"Over 3000 field forces are employed in the management of the coronavirus emergency: 1872 volunteers, 927 units of the armed forces and 255 people from the Department". To this number must be added "the colleagues of the Regions, of the Municipalities and the health personnel and of the hospitals, which escape our punctual counting". The curtains used for the pre-triage facilities are 565 ".

Work protection
"On the use of surgical masks in the workplace: the Scientific Committee recommends strictly respecting the distance of one meter as the main criterion for containing the virus. In the absence of the possibility of maintaining the distance, the use of masks is recommended", he finally stated Borrelli at the press conference.

Today 5 transfers from Lombardy
"Today we had 5 transfers from Lombardy and 2 went to Tuscany, 1 to Veneto and 2 to Abruzzo". The head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, said it during the press conference to take stock of the coronavirus emergency.