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March 24, 2020 The password is now caution. Especially because for the head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, probably in Italy today there are about 600 thousand infected by the new coronavirus. The official numbers speak of 63 thousand but in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica Borrelli admits: "The report of one patient certified every ten uncensored is credible".

So Borrelli remains cautious in the face of data on contagions slowing down for two consecutive days: "The measures of two weeks ago are starting to feel - he observes - In the next few hours we should see other effects, we will understand if the growth curve is really flattening". In a week Italy, according to the mathematical projections, will surpass China for the number of infections: "I would never have expected it" admits Borrelli who also saw 12 of his collaborators infected.

Faced with these numbers, the head of the Civil Protection does not blame Italy for errors of underestimation: "On January 31 - he says - this government declared a state of emergency and blocked flights to and from China, it seems to me that we understood immediately that this epidemic was serious. "

Rather, what he finds in the face of a case like that of Lombardy is the presence of "public behavior that has fueled the national problem". And faced with the case of the match Atalanta-Valencia admits: "Potentially he was a detonator, but we can say it now, in hindsight".

Faced with these numbers, those who ask him if it makes sense the now fixed press conference of 18 replies: "From the first day I assured that I would tell the truth, it is a commitment that I made with the country. If we stopped now they would accuse us to hide things. And then we were in the hands of the individual Regions, the numbers of the councilors for Health. In the first weeks it was chaos ".


The bulletin of March 23 on the Coronavirus emergency in Italy.



All data updated in Italy and worldwide

A total of 63,927 people in Italy have been infected with the coronavirus so far. Yesterday there were 50,418 positive people, an increase of 3,780 compared to the previous day and 26,522 are those in home isolation. 7,432 people were healed, with an increase of 408 units. 6,077 died yesterday, 601 more than the overall figure the day before, but this number can only be confirmed after the Istituto Superiore di Sanità has established the actual cause of the death.

There are 3,204 patients admitted to intensive care, 195 more. Of these, 1,183 are in Lombardy. 601 people have died in the past 24 hours with coronavirus. The increase in the number of victims also drops for the second consecutive day. The total number of victims rises to 6,077.

It should be noted that the number of new positives (3,780) is decreasing compared to the previous day when 3,957 were registered. For the second consecutive day, the increase in the number of infected people slows down.

Falling trend? I am not unbalanced
"I watch carefully and favorably" the downward trend, "but I still don't feel unbalanced". "This is a very important week for us to evaluate the trend of our curves" on coronavirus infections. This was stated by ISS president Silvio Brusaferro, during a press conference on civil protection.

Hope: "Crucial days, now more than ever don't let your guard down"
"These are crucial days. Woe to let your guard down. Everyone's commitment is needed now more than ever." So the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, despite some timid signs of improvement in the coronavirus epidemic curve, urges citizens, right now, not to loosen the stringent containment measures and to continue to follow the strict rules imposed by the government to deal with the emergency and to be able to overcome it.

All deaths were swab positive
"All the people who died" from coronavirus in Italy "tested positive for the swab". Silvio Brusaferro, president of the ISS, said this at the press conference on civil protection.

25.5 million raised on civil protection current account
"Thanks to the generosity of the Italians, 25.5 million have been collected on the Civil Protection current account. The money will go towards the purchase of fans, protection devices for health personnel and all the tools to combat coronavirus".

Germany welcomes 8 Italian patients
"Germany has accepted the first two Italian coronavirus positive patients, it should welcome 8 positive in all. This highlights how important international solidarity is." "Today, the activity of the remote emergency medical center continued: 4 patients were transferred, also from Lombardy,
and the total of those transferred since the beginning of the emergency is 68, of these 28 positive and 40 non-positive patients. "" I thank the many countries that have contributed to the activities of our country, in particular the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, France and Germany that have provided us with men and means to combat this epidemic.

Prevent new positives from spreading
"To get the contagion curve back down, hopefully as soon as possible, it is essential that new positives or suspicions cease to transmit the infection to others drastically." So the president ISS, Silvio Brusaferro, in a press conference at the Civil Protection. "This is the bet. It is the positives who come to the hospital after a while. To prevent this number of cases from occurring again in 15-20 days, we must prevent the new positives or suspects from transmitting the virus."

Avoid replicating North curves in the South
"This is an important week for us to evaluate the trend of our curves. This great attention must make us remember that the curves depend on the regions of the North and our effort is to avoid that the curves of the North are replicated also in the South". This was stated by the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro, during the press conference to the Civil Protection on the coronavirus emergency. "Our bet - he added - is that the curves of the north do not reproduce in the south. Our measures are articulated on two legs: the response of care in hospitals; to ensure that the curve returns to descend the passage requires the measures of social distancing but cannot ignore the fact that the new positives cease drastically to transmit the infection to others. Dramatic events such as deaths or ICU admissions also take place after a certain period of time. What we have to do today is to make sure that the positives don't transmit. "

Too many people still around
"The curve to the south does not seem to rear, but I have seen in the press review images of streets full of people, things that are not seen elsewhere. If the attitude will be rigorous, and unitary in the country, there is the real possibility that the curves do not take a similar trend to the North. But if we are not rigorous, the dynamics do not depend on latitude but on our behavior ". This was said by ISS president Silvio Brusaferro.

The ideal would be to have an immune population
"The best solution to avoid coronavirus circulation is to have an immune population, to slow down the curve of contagions also to give time to our research and industry to give us therapies, specific antibodies and vaccines". This was said by the president of ISS Silvio Brusaferro, responding to journalists at a press conference at the Civil Protection.

Test drugs transparently
"I believe, without going into the details of the individual drug, that it is important to experiment and do it transparently, as is happening, as well as sharing information with the world". This was stated by the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro. "Because Italy is currently a pilot, in spite of itself, and can provide useful information to other countries".