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March 31, 2020 "The curve shows us that it seems we are reaching a sort of plateau, a figure that shows us that the measures are working. Declining it in the three areas, we have the one with the highest circulation in the north, an intermediate one with a few thousand cases and others that are with a limited number of cases, with limited circulation ". This was stated by the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità Silvio Brusaferro at the ISS press point on the epidemiological trend.

Getting to the plateau, the phase in which the peak remains stable for a certain period, added Brusaferro, "does not mean that we have reached the summit and now it is over, it means that we have to make the descent, and it is done only with great attention to behavior, without lowering your guard. " The president of the ISS underlines that in our country "there are areas with higher circulation, intermediate circulation and limited number of cases and other regions with a limited number of cases, limited circulation. The bet is that in these areas circulation remains low. And that is the goal we aim at if we keep the rules active in our country ".

Difficult zeroing shortly
"The choices that will have to be made presuppose that we must prevent the curve from going back or leading to a situation of non-control of the epidemic. So we have to understand how fast the curve goes down, today it is difficult to imagine a reset at short notice," he said Silvio Brusaferro at the ISS press point on the epidemiological trend. "So we have to reason - he explained - on how they can impact different measures that are adopted. But there is no literature on this issue, we are going to model and hypothesize scenarios which so far have not been traveled by countries with government systems similar to ours. It is no coincidence that we are seen as a pilot country. We are considering various possible measures, studying how much the curve decreases. Then we will have to start moving by identifying the activities to be restarted. making sure that some more fragile areas are kept under strict control ".

More masks, certifications quickly
"We have given over 70-80 authorizations to companies to produce masks, pending technical tests on the filtering capacity of microorganisms as soon as possible. When we verify them and are consistent with international standards, it takes us an hour to release the 'authorization, but in the meantime the manufacturer can produce, "said the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.

"We cannot afford to put instruments in circulation that do not have the required performance," he added. "It is evident that above all the ability to filter microorganisms becomes a decisive factor for the safety, above all of the operators and those exposed, and any authorization must be based on the guarantee that this ability is there and is tested. I am grateful to entrepreneurs and companies for the extraordinary effort to convert production. We have to combine the support for this enormous effort with the guarantee that the standards are respected. The ISS has doubled the staff in charge of this in 24 hours, has worked on 800 practices and 1,400 requests for clarification fulfilled. Real-time communication with companies giving them the specifications that must be guaranteed. Evaluates the evidence that is presented. Where there is evidence that suggests that functions are being authorized companies to produce and support themselves to acquire in the most definitive tests from a microbiological point of view as short as possible ".