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07 April 2020The data we have are overall comforting and in line, even in Milan ". Said the councilor for Welfare of Lombardy, Giulio Gallera, to the Agorà transmission answering a question if he was worried by the trend of the spread of the coronavirus in the Lombard capital. "All realities are slowing down significantly, including Brescia and Bergamo. Until yesterday Milan had a still worrying trend but yesterday's data tell us that the diffusion is under control, but we must not relax, "added Gallera." This does not mean relax, especially in a city like Milan where we have to continue to be very strict because there is a very high population density. Overall, the data show that sacrifice has brought results. "

Red zone controversy: "We could have done it, but convinced the government would proceed"
The Lombard commissioner then returned to the controversy with the government regarding the failure to close in the Bergamo area. The Lombardy Region did not proceed to declare the Municipalities of Nembro and Alzano Lombardo a red zone, because "when the army trucks arrived on March 5, we were convinced that it would be activated" by the government and "it would not have made sense for us to do An ordinance. Then the government decided to do the red zone over the whole region, "said Gallera, in Agorà. "Could we have done it? I have deepened and actually there is a law that allows it."

"I was on the phone with Brusaferro on the 3rd evening to define the request for the red zone for Alzano and Nembro. On the 5th the trucks had arrived. But then on the 7th the government decided to make the whole Region a Red area, 200 carabinieri had arrived in a hotel in Alzano "@GiulioGallera pic.twitter.com/Stt21sjI22

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The Lombard commissioner had already addressed the issue in an interview with the newspaper La Stampa by replying to Prime Minister Conte's words on the failure to close. "We were overwhelmed by a tsunami" he said "a crazy wave and we are still inside it. That someone comes here to evaluate negatively single episodes or single actions, I find it ungenerous". As for the accusations of slowness in closing and quickly outlining the red zone, Gallera says: "At the beginning we shared all the choices with the government, in the wake of an institutional collaboration relationship" and "after a phone call on March 3 between me, the director general Cajazzo and the president of the ISS Brusaferro - continues the Lombard councilor - asked to close the Bergamo area ". "And it was the same Higher Institute that made a report to ask the government that that area was closed" notes Gallera who says: "From Rome they tell us that the decision is imminent" but instead Conte "on Friday tells us that he was about to make a decree by which Sunday would close all of Lombardy making it turn orange ". In short, would this period of time be the cause of the spread of the infection? ". Gallera speaks of" match in hand "in the management of Lombardy as an orange / red area." If they had told us immediately that they didn't want to do it - he says referring to the government - we would have moved differently ".

On the massacre of the elderly, Gallera defends the position of the Region claiming that he asked "these structures, which are private and do not depend on us, if they were willing to welcome convalescents. To do so, the conditions were that there were isolated or physically isolated pavilions far from the places where the elderly were hosted. We did not impose anything. But if we had not lightened the hospitals we would not have been able to hospitalize other patients, "concludes Gallera.