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April 19, 2020 Governor Attilio Fontana does not believe in the reopening of some regions before the others, especially before Lombardy, even if he refers to what the technicians will say.

"The decisions will be made all together on the basis of the assessments of the technicians to protect the health but - he told Ansa - I don't think we can get to that because Italy could remain lame". On the hypothesis instead that some region decides to close the borders, as the President of Campania Vincenzo De Luca has threatened to do, Fontana limited himself to saying "I hope it has been misinterpreted". 

Fontana also returns to the tensions over the RSA issue and the clash with the Lazio region: "I would have thought that there would have been a little more tasteful, wait at least until the end of the storm", the president of Lombardy replies to the requests for commissioner and to political controversies. "An attack is underway against us," he added, returning to criticism for what he said about the resolution to place Coronavirus patients in Lazio in the RSA, which he reiterated, "starts from the same ratio as ours: isolate Covid patients". 

Clash between regions
The day saw tensions between Lombardy and Lazio on assisted healthcare residences. The Lombard governor Attilio Fontana says that a resolution similar to their "had been taken by Lazio, but no objection was made to its president". Immediate reply from the Lazio region led by Nicola Zingaretti, who talks about hoaxes and underlines: "No ease in contagion, no case Lombardy in Lazio", while the councilor for Lazio Healthcare D'Amato invites not to mystify. In Veneto, the governor Zaia meanwhile warns: 'If they close the borders it is South against North'.