Italian Health Minister calls for preparations for the second wave of outbreaks
Xinhua News Agency, Rome, June 11 (Reporter Chen Zhanjie) Italian Health Minister Speranza said in the lower house of parliament on the 11th that all circles in Italy should unite together to jointly promote the country's recovery from the new crown epidemic and prepare for the second wave of the epidemic .
Speranza said that Italy must keep in mind the "nightmare" just experienced, learn from this unprecedented disaster, reform the national health system and increase investment. "The second wave of outbreaks will not necessarily break out, but we must be prepared for it."
Speranza said that Italy's series of epidemic data is encouraging, but the epidemic is not over, and the virus is still spreading. He said that the current epidemic situation is still spreading in many places around the world, and the conditions for opening the border of the Schengen area on June 15th are not yet mature.
Speranza said that the Ministers of Health of Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands jointly sent a letter to the European Commission President Von Delaine, calling on the EU to play a leading role in the development of new crown vaccines to ensure that all countries in Europe can enjoy and become Global public goods.
According to the statistical report released by the Italian National Bureau of Statistics on the 11th, in April this year, Italy's industrial production index fell 19.1% month-on-month and 42.5% year-on-year; the industrial production index from January to April fell 18.7% year-on-year. The report said that the main reason for this result was that the nationwide "closing the city" measures caused many production activities to stagnate.
According to the data released by the Italian Civil Protection Department on the 11th, there were 53 new death cases in the country on the same day, with a total of 34,167 deaths; 379 newly diagnosed cases, a cumulative diagnosis of 236,142 cases; 1399 new cured cases, a cumulative cure of 171,338 cases ; The number of patients with new crowns has decreased by 1073 from the previous day to 30637.
Of the existing patients, 26,270 are isolated at home, 4,131 are receiving general treatment in hospitals, and 236 are receiving treatment in the intensive care unit. The number of common hospitalized cases and severe cases decreased by 189 and 13 cases respectively compared with the previous day.
According to government plans, Italy will further relax control measures from June 15 to allow children's summer camps, dance halls, cinemas, theaters, and other cultural venues to reopen, provided that social distances and masks must be maintained.
Italy began to implement a six-month emergency from January 31 to respond to the epidemic, and entered the state of "closing the city" from March 10 until May 3, from May 4 to enter the anti-epidemic and economic recovery The parallel "second stage" allows travel across regions from June 3, and allows unrestricted entry for EU and Schengen countries and British tourists.