"No sign of ending"

For the fourth day in a row yesterday, the number of new people confirmed to be infected with covid-19 in Italy decreased. From 3,612 on Tuesday to 3,491 now. The death toll remains high, 683 yesterday, 743 the day before. A total of 7,503 people who have been corona infected have died. The total number of confirmed infected, dead and recovered since the virus first broke out in Italy is 74 386.

However, the number of infected is an uncertain measure, since far from all suspected cases are tested. The number of blacks infected is considered to be very large.

Contagionist pessimistic

Professor Galli, infection control expert at Sacco Hospital in hard-hit Milan, is negative. In an interview with Il Giornale, he answers the question of when "all this will end".

- Do you see any signs that the situation has improved? I won't, Galli replies.

Now comes new figures that give him the right. Despite all military restrictions on Milan's streets and total shutdown, the infection in severely affected Lombardy is rising again. In just one day, there are 2,500 new confirmed cases.

- I am worried. We must see if this is an individual event that is due to something or if it is a new growing negative trend, says regional president Attilio Fontana.

He himself has had the virus and quarantined, but is now back at work.

"There are no good numbers we see, they are too high," Fontana told Italian media.

At the same time, Professor Massimo Galli warns that hospitals, health centers and emergency rooms have been places where the infection has spread. He also gives background to the high death rates.

- In Italy, we have an incredible number of people over eighty and ninety years. They feel, or feel, pretty good. But most people have several other illnesses, which they have managed through good health care. But it does not resist when covid-19 attacks, Galli says.

A setback

Many experts had hoped to be able to confirm this weekend that the numbers are going down, so the large number of new infected in Lombardy is a setback.

In Campania in southern Italy there are at the same time nine new infection cures isolated in red zones. Campania regional president Vincenzo Di Luca announced yesterday that the curfew will be extended to April 14 for all. All in order not to get a repeat of the huge outbreak of infection in the north.

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