Coronavirus, Fontana: "1500 hired among doctors and nurses. Strict measures are bearing fruit"

• Coronavirus, the hospital inaugurated at the Milan Fair. Government hypothesis: "It will be permanent"
• Flags at half mast and silence, Italy remembers the victims of the coronavirus

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"The rigorous measures taken 15 days ago are beginning to bear fruit and the line of new infections has not grown for a few days, has stabilized and indeed tends to go towards a reduction". So the Lombard Governor Attilio Fontana in his speech in the Regional Council. "This is proof that the latest way to combat the virus, for which no effective cure or vaccine has been found to date, is to prevent any form of infection."

The governor then claims "the attitude we had from the first moment" that "was to ask the government for strict measures to be issued. The opinion we have is that if there had been the strength to issue measures from the first moment very rigid, probably the speed of the infection could have been reduced and perhaps stopped a little earlier. So it was not "he stresses," but the demonstration of what I say is the red area of ​​Codogno: after 15 days from its establishment, the infections were close to zero. "

From Iss days, on masks need an answer in hours
"Unfortunately, the ISS said that the first meeting to evaluate this template has been postponed to next week. From there begins this process which I hope will be speeded up. I believe that we should not say 'let's answer in a few weeks' thinking to do us a favor, but that should be said 'we will give you an answer in a few hours' "adds Fontana, returning to the waiting for the certification of the ISS to a Lombard company capable of producing 900 thousand masks per day. "Unless they have yet realized that we are in an emergency period, since no one gives the masks to us anyway. At least give us permission to produce them."

Fake and absurd controversy over tampons
The one about the tampons "is a fake and absurd controversy" the Lombard governor still underlines. "In the narrative that was made in the newspapers, it became confused between diagnostic tool and healing tools. Tampons are by no means a healing tool." Furthermore, "it is an assessment that has a very limited temporary validity" and "according to the indications of the ISS and the Ministry of Health, never to be used on asymptomatic drugs. So we have done, we have always followed these rigorous indications of the ISS" . Fontana remarks that "today, based on the availability of our laboratories and the reagents we receive through the Civil Protection, we can do between 5 and 6 thousand swabs per day at the most. We are starting a series of tests on other types of infill. there are now on the market according to the ISS they are absolutely ineffective, one in two is wrong "but" if we were to find something faster and more effectively it is clear that the strategy could change substantially ".

1500 doctors and nurses hired
"From February 20 to today, the Lombardy Region has hired about 1500 doctors and nurses. When last summer we asked for autonomy to have the possibility of having more doctors and employees in the world of health, unfortunately we were saying a right thing" highlights therefore the governor. "If we had had the opportunity to use this workforce right away, perhaps we could have faced the first few days of this epidemic less frantically."

Fiera hospital will be a symbol of victory
The hospital built at the Fiera in Milan "will be the symbol of the battle won against the coronavirus and the symbol of the recovery of our region" is Fontana's comment during the inauguration, this morning, of the hospital built in 14 days in the pavilions of the Fair, which can accommodate up to 200 beds. But, Fontana said, "with one condition: we haven't won anything yet so we don't spread too much enthusiasm. People have to stay at home because that's the only way we can win."

Lombardy Council observes minute of silence
The Lombardy Regional Council has joined the ANCI initiative, observing a minute of silence to remember the victims of the coronavirus. "Just as many mayors in Italy are doing, we too adhere to this symbolic but important gesture" said the president of the Lombard assembly Alessandro Fermi, explaining that even at Pirellone the flags were placed at half mast and those in the Chamber mourning lists. "This page will remain in the history of our country. The 10,000 victims have been exceeded, we must huddle around the pain of families who have lost loved ones because of Covid, without the possibility of being close to him and being able to dedicate a worthy burial to him" stressed Fermi. "Our recognition and our closeness - he added - also go to the doctors and nurses who fell in the exercise of their duty and to all those who are continuing to work to guarantee essential services to citizens, putting their health at risk".