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  • Coronavirus, Borrelli: over 20 thousand infected. The victims are 1,809, the healed 2,335

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March 16, 2020 Fontana: "Bertolaso ​​chosen for foreign relations"
"Thanks to the great relationships that Bertolaso ​​has abroad, we hope that he will be able to do this great little miracle of finding respirators". This was stated by the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, answering a question to Centocitta 'on Radio 1, on the choice of Guido Bertolaso ​​as consultant for the construction of the hospital dedicated to coronavirus patients in Fiera Milano.

Lazio Region, Columbus Covid 2 opens in Rome "made in record time"
The 'Columbus Covid 2 hospital', the hospital built in record time by the Policlinico Gemelli Foundation, to face the coronavirus emergency, has opened its doors in Rome. 21 intensive care beds and 32 in the pulmonology, infectious diseases and internal medicine wards will be activated. Up to the complete opening of 59 reanimation beds and another 74 in single rooms. "An exceptional response - said the councilor for Health and Social Health Integration of the Lazio Region, Alessio D'Amato, interviewed at Buongiorno Regione Tg3 Lazio -. In one week this covid 2 hospital was set up. I thank the Gemelli Polyclinic , all their operators for their extraordinary generosity and professional effort ". "We - he added - are recruiting over 600 operators across the system, including medical professionals and nurses. We are at war and we must fight. And in the end we will win". The Lazio Region is working to open two other Covid hospitals. "In this way - explained D'Amato - we will have a total of 1,500 beds and over 200 intensive care beds.

Emiliano: "In Puglia dismantled and reassembled hospital network"
"I would exchange my role as president of the Puglia Region for having undergone 280 ventilators 150 thousand masks per month" to deal with the emergency coronavirus. The president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, guest of Studio24 broadcast on Rainews said so. "We can try to withstand the wave of contagion - he continued - we hope to be able to manage 2 thousand sick people at the same time. At 12 we make the first printed conference and we will present the hospital plan of Puglia. We have dismantled and reassembled the entire hospital-Puglia system, dedicating it in part to Covid-19 and closing the entrance to other types of diseases. We have suspended non-urgent interventions, I apologize to all the people who were waiting for a examination, of a screening: afterwards we will have to dispose of impressive waiting lists ".

The numbers of the epidemic
Yesterday at the usual press conference yesterday afternoon, the head of Civil Protection Borrelli said that 20,603 people were infected, with 2,853 new cases. There were 368 dead, for a total of 1,809. The healed 369, for a total of 2,335. There are 1,672 patients admitted to intensive care, 154 more than the previous day. Of these 767 are in Lombardy. Of the 20,603 patients overall, 9,663 are then hospitalized with symptoms and 9,268 are those in home isolation. Forty patients have been transferred from Lombardy to other regions.

From the Civil Protection data it emerges that 10,043 patients are in Lombardy (984 more than the previous day), 2,741 in Emilia Romagna (+392), 1,989 in Veneto (+214), 1,030 in Piedmont (+216), 1,087 in the Marche (+224), 763 in Tuscany (+149), 396 in Lazio (+76), 296 in Campania (+53), 493 in Liguria (+109), 316 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+45), 179 in Sicily (+29), 212 in Puglia (+56), 367 in Trentino (+168), 128 in Abruzzo (+22), 139 in Umbria (+36), 17 in Molise (+0), 75 in Sardinia (+ 25), 56 in Aosta Valley (+15), 66 in Calabria (+7), 199 in South Tyrol (+29), 11 in Basilicata (+1).

As for the victims, there are: 1,218 in Lombardy (+252), 284 in Emilia Romagna, (+43), 63 in Veneto (+8), 81 in Piedmont (+22), 46 in the Marche (+10), 8 in Tuscany (+2), 33 in Liguria (+6), 9 in Campania (+3), 16 Lazio (+3), 14 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (+1), 16 in Puglia (+8), 5 in the province of Bolzano (+2), 2 in Sicily (+0), 3 in Abruzzo (+1), one in Umbria (+0) one in Valle d'Aosta (+0), 6 in Trentino (+4) , one in Calabria, 2 in Sardinia.

The total swabs are 124,899, almost 85 thousand of which in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna.

For today, distribution from 1 million and a half to two million surgical masks and another 300 thousand model FFP2 is planned.

"Going out only for work, treatment and shopping"
"I make a reference to the rules: you have to go out only for work needs, medical treatment and shopping. You have to limit travel and going out of your home as much as possible", reiterated Borrelli. And then: "I am happy that Guido Bertolaso ​​can help the Lombardy Region and that he can be part of this game" in the strategy of contrasting and containing the coronavirus epidemic. Borrelli underlined that he had grown professionally in this area with Bertolaso, "I have learned a lot from him, we have an excellent relationship and I will be happy to be able to work with him".



Gallera: "On the masks we do it ourselves"
"On the masks we make ourselves, yesterday we recovered 700,000 of them, it will be enough for two days, this is the unit of time with which we measure ourselves". The councilor for the welfare of Lombardy said Giulio Gallera. "We don't use the masks that civil protection gave us - he specified - we can't give them to hospitals, maybe we'll give them to some volunteers. The civil protection told us that they had, we do it ourselves".