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March 30, 2020 The growth of infections in Lombardy continues to decrease: the positives are 42,161, with an increase of 1154 compared to yesterday, when 1592 more cases had been recorded. The Lombardy Councilor for Welfare, Giulio Gallera, made it known in the daily update on the coronavirus emergency

The number of deaths remains high, with 458 more victims bringing the total to 6,818. Yesterday there were 416 deaths. 11815 non-ICU admissions, with a growth of 202, while only two new ICU admissions.

The new ones infected in Milan are also falling: yesterday they were 247, today they are 154, for a total of 8676 positives throughout the province. To date, 8676 have been infected in the metropolitan city of Milan; the increase is 347: a moderately positive figure considering that yesterday +546 positive had been detected on the previous day. In the capital city alone the positives are 3560, +154 compared to yesterday, also in this case with a "good reduction", given that yesterday's figure was +247 compared to the day before.

"A task force of experts from Lombardy has launched a scientific evaluation on more than 100 different types of commercial tests for the determination of the antibodies that develop following coronavirus infection, in order to extend the screening possibilities over large layers of the population". The announcement was made by Governor Attilio Fontana and Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera.

"This is a first step - they explain - aimed at identifying the diagnostic proposals that give the best guarantees of specificity, sensitivity, ease of use, high speed and ability to be processed. Lombardy will make the results of this analysis available nationally and internationally ". For this research, the Lombard experts "will be able to arrange and go to deepen the analysis of the serum of patients hospitalized, discharged and removed from quarantine because negative - specify by the Region - in addition to those dating back to previous years, during which the infection still has not was in circulation. "

"Scientific research will go hand in hand with the immense effort we are making for hospital and home care - underline Fontana and Gallera - in order to have wide-ranging diagnostic tools available and to release to the international community as many information, for the present and for the future, useful to eradicate this invisible enemy ".