The results are going up in France, Germany, Switzerland… but also in Italy. Authorities announced this Saturday, in an official report, that the country has registered 1,071 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours. A symbolic bar - that of a thousand cases per day - that Italy has crossed for the first time since May 12.
This latest assessment confirms the upward curve observed in recent days in the peninsula: + 947 cases Friday, + 845 Thursday, and + 642 Wednesday. The regions with the most new cases are Lazio (region of Rome, + 215), Lombardy (region of Milan, + 185) and the region of Venice (northeast, +160).
Sardinia in the crosshairs
The situation in the Rome region, in fact, is particularly worrying: the 215 new cases represent "a record number", commented Alessio D'Amato, the health manager of Lazio. We have to go back to March 28, in full confinement, to find the previous record, which stood at 208.
“61% (of these new cases) are linked to returns from vacation”, he stressed, and more specifically 45% (97 cases) relate to returns from Sardinia (south), which had been spared by the first wave of the virus but where the comings and goings of tourists and unwary revelers have contributed to the spread of the virus. The daily Il Corriere della Sera also highlighted on Saturday on its one "the Sardinian case": "More contagions among those who come back".
Tests on the departure of boats and planes?
Faced with this outbreak of cases, the president of the Lazio region, Nicola Zingaretti, also leader of the Democratic Party (center-left, in power), asked the Ministry of Health and the Sardinia region to "put in place 'emergency checks with tests on boarding points' on departure from the island.
A position shared by the director of the Roman hospital specializing in infectious diseases Spallanzani, Francesco Vaia: “The solution is to carry out tests on the departure of boats, planes and trains. This is the only way to prevent the spread of the virus ”.
Fines of 400 euros for missing a mask
The government has taken several measures to stem the new wave of contagions: closure of nightclubs since August 17, compulsory wearing of a mask in busy places from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The Rome police force thus imposed on the night of Friday to Saturday its first fines, in the amount of 400 euros, for lack of mask in the tourist district of Trastevere, very frequented by young people.
The health ministry report published on Saturday also reports three deaths, bringing the death toll to 35,430 for a total of 258,136 cases since the start of the pandemic.
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