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March 20, 2020 "There are 37,860 positive cases, 5,129 people recovered, 4,032 deaths. The increase in coronavirus patients in Italy, compared to Wednesday is 4,670. The total number of infected people - including victims and the healed - has reached i 47,021. 627 people died with coronavirus in the last 24 hours. 2,655 ill patients of Covid-19 hospitalized in intensive care, 7% of the total. 16,020 patients are hospitalized with symptoms, 19,185 in home isolation " . The data were provided by the head of the Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli in a press conference to the Civil Protection.


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No problems of hospitalization
"We have had no problems with hospitalizations. Those who stay at home are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms so they do not need hospitalization. I want to clarify this," added Borrelli.

We have 8,000 intensive care places
"When the emergency started, we had 5,400 places in intensive care, today we are around 8 thousand and they are still growing." The head of the Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli said in a press conference underlining that the places "in pneumatology and specialized departments" are also increasing. "There is a whole strengthening activity that has been put in place" by the Regions and the government.

Pensions advance payment order signed
"I have signed an order for the advance payment of pensions, which will take place from 26 to 31 March and will happen for April and the following months".

False that we declare bio-containment
"I dryly deny that the department would be preparing to declare the conditions of bio-containment on the whole national territory from mid-April. It is a fake news that circulates, these false news must be punished, whoever puts them on the net must be punished: they are destitute of any foundation and they are also alarmist. "

Positive number fruit of the circulation before the tightening
"The measures put in place so far have given results, I believe that the number of positives is the result of a virus circulation that precedes the strict date and that we hope everything, with these measures, taken and to be taken, will allow us even more than stopping the virus. "

Borrelli: maybe peak in two weeks
"The forecasts are made by the experts, surely it is right to make them, but then we have to see if the forecasts are confirmed by the facts. Maybe the peak will not arrive next week, but the one after. Everyone says that we are going towards the peak, we hope it will arrive as long as before". said Angelo Borrelli, head of civil protection, who spoke on Rai Radio2 microphones. On the importance of following a correct behavior: "Optimism and hope I never put them away. We must come from the behaviors that our compatriots are adopting. We need absolute prudence, we have to go out as little as possible. It is fundamental to contain the You have to avoid human contact and move as little as possible. Avoid leaving home if not strictly necessary. Epidemiologists tell us that if we lead an absolutely normal life, the percentage of people who are affected by the coronavirus is much higher. this will take measures such as those adopted in China. " On outdoor physical activity: "Would it be fair to prohibit it? In my opinion, it would be fair to prohibit outdoor sporting activity. If we have to make sacrifices, we have to do it for all reasons. We must also avoid running outdoors. we will do it in ten days, or when it will be ".

A short task force with 300 doctors
"We are working with Minister Boccia, with the Presidents of the Region, with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, to close the ordinance to establish the task force of the 300 doctors that we will put in support of the regional realities they will need. By tonight we will run the organization of this Task Force. "

Bernabei: still early because of the measures taken
"The decree has 10 days, we need to wait at least a couple of weeks to see the results of the measures taken". This was said by Roberto Bernabei, professor of Geriatrics at the Cattolica of Rome and president of the Italia Longeva association, at the press point in civil protection together with Commissioner Angelo Borrelli. As for the risk of new outbreaks, Bernabei replied: "The idea that there may be spots in the next few days is possible, but it does not upset me. The fundamental thing is that steps are taken to try to restrict them". Finally, he reiterated that only 0.8 per cent of the victims "had zero concomitant pathologies" while "25 per cent had two or three pathologies. The risk factors are geriatric age but also concomitant pathologies, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, which lead to greater aggressiveness of the virus that explains the excess mortality. The average age of the infected in Italy is 63 years against 46 of the Chinese. Less than 10 percent of mortality is under 60 years , everything else from sixty up ".

Bernabei; where many patients zero, situation continues to explode
What are the reasons why the outbreaks are always the two northern regions? "One, none and one hundred thousand. We don't have the glass ball to interpret this. Certainly there is a level in the center-south which is still contained, so on the one hand the containment measures start to work, while where there was a heap of zero patients things continued to explode. I stress that since yesterday there have been 200 more cases, something will mean ". So Roberto Bernabei
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