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March 24, 2020In his press point today, the extraordinary commissioner for the coronavirus emergency of the Civil Protection Domenico Arcuri said that 300 new doctors are arriving in the regions most affected and exposed to the epidemic. "Doctors are the category that is experiencing this emergency on their own skin, even at the cost of their lives", "500 nurses will also arrive in the same areas with a strong impact on the virus"

"To all the workers and unions I say thank you, for the effort and the patience they have had in these hours. Yesterday we distributed 4mln and 900 thousand masks, the professional ones for healthcare personnel, an impressive delivery: there are over 1 million masks delivered per day. We have grown from this point of view, but we must focus on the internal production of indispensable medical material for our hospitals and medical personnel ". Without these that I call 'ammunition' to fight this unknown and strong enemy, we cannot do it "

I thank the German government for helping us move patients to their hospitals, I thank the work of the foreign ministry which has set up a crisis unit and I thank the minister of Maio for the search and acquisition of these ammunition. In our country we need 90 million masks a month. And unfortunately for another eight weeks we will still be dependent on foreign production. Masks are not like pasta that we can buy at the supermarket, we are in a commercial war for the hoarding of this material and the rest of the sanitary material that we are unable to produce. But luckily we have allied countries that help us.

In this regard, there is another important point that we have worked on and that is the 'Cura Italia' incentive which, thanks to an agreement with the European Union - allows to finance an allocation of 50 million to companies that want to convert their structures. to produce the templates we need. I hope that Italian companies welcome it. But time is a decisive variable, we need companies that want to join to do it quickly, "said Arcuri.

From March 29th we will import 8 million masks from China. Thanks to the Ministry of Defense and Minister Guerini, our planes will take masks from China. But the path we have chosen is clear, we must increase our domestic domestic production, we must continue in order to depend less and less on other countries and to get out of this real trade war going on in these hours for the procurement of material - ammunition - healthcare. I would like to say that Italy is proving to be an extraordinary country: 50 million masks will arrive per month from the Fashion sector, to which we hope to add other companies until they become self-sufficient.
We have an excellent relationship with all the regions, but we must absolutely avoid contagion in those regions of Italy that have not been seriously attacked by Covid-19. We are on the right track, but I don't know when this emergency will end, "concluded Arcuri.