Covid-19 in Lombardy. Gallera: "State masks for 4 and a half days"

2020-04-03T15:21:51.049Z

"There is a difficulty for everyone. I don't mean that the Civil Protection keeps the masks hidden, but the fact is that we have received 2.5 million masks from the Civil Protection, while we have purchased 10 million. In Lombardy we we only need 300,000 for hospitals, and 500,000 if we consider general practitioners and RSAs. We then received masks for 4 and a half days out of six weeks of crisis. If we are all here to deal with the difficulties, we we understand and try to react ". The councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera said this, speaking today at Mattino Cinque, on Canale 5. "We understand everything and everyone - he added - because it is a fact that this pandemic has found the whole West unprepared, just look at the US or the statements of the British Prime Minister. Everything is therefore understandable, but when we are attacked by authoritative people of the territory, some center-left mayors of the provincial capitals, as if we were responsible for everything, when we immediately with a sense of responsibility tried to take charge of the emergency, both with purchases and avoiding controversy, then it is clear that President Fontana has said justly enough. We have a sense of responsibility if we all have it. If someone fails this sense of responsibility and start making political speculation, then we are forced to tell how things are ". Mayors in Fontana: where are the masks? "If it is true, and we take note of it, that the Lombardy Region has made purchases of masks for many million euros, and at the same time the Civil Protection claims to have sent 17% of 45 million masks to Lombardy - as Angelo said yesterday Borrelli - where are all these masks? Why we have not seen them to date, neither one nor the other. Can we have a certain word on when they will reach the Municipalities and our citizens? ". So the center-left mayors of Lombardy (Giorgio Gori, Bergamo, Emilio Del Bono, Brescia, Gianluca Galimberti, Cremona, Virginio Brivio, Lecco, Mattia Palazzi, Mantua, Beppe Sala, Milan and Davide Galimberti, Varese) continue to hammer Lombardy Region and Governor Attilio Fontana on the lack of the main personal protective equipment. Sala and the other mayors - in a new hard intervention published today on Facebook - then move on to the problem of swabs to be administered on the carpet to control epidemic outbreaks in the bud. Fontana to the mayors: enough controversy The Lombard mayors "continue to ask questions and ask for clarifications on social networks" and "I wanted to ask in turn if our dialogue should continue on social networks or return to the institutional tables open and active since February 23". The president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana said this, following the letter sent yesterday to the mayors and AnciLombardia and responding to the accusations of the mayors of Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Lecco, Mantua, Milan and Varese, according to which the Region " abdicated the use of tampons as a means to contain the spread of coronavirus ". Fontana stressed that his "suggestion is to stop creating public controversy and go back to working head down all together and without party distinctions at the working tables we have set up. Out of respect for our institutions, mayors of different political orientation and , above all, of citizens who ask for facts and not controversies ".