Covid. Conte: "There is no glass ball, worrying numbers. We are evaluating whether to intervene again"

• Covid: in Campania stop at preschools from Monday.

  De Luca: "The government is wasting time"

• Covid, Emiliano: in Puglia teaching suspended in presence in all schools

• Covid, antibodies decay after a few months: herd immunity impossible

• Lockdown in Milan and Naples?

  De Magistris and Sala write to Speranza: "Closing is now wrong"

• Milan: over 150 admissions to intensive care, Covid hospital in Fiera reopens

• Dpcm, Crisanti: "A courageous and indispensable measure"

• Brusaferro (Iss): the epidemic is running, eleven Regions with Rt 4 index

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October 31, 2020 "We have adopted a restrictive measures framework and at regional level there are governors who are adopting even more restrictive measures" but after yesterday's updates on the rate of growth of coronavirus infections "we are discussing with experts and evaluating whether to intervene yet".

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this when he was interviewed online at the feast of the newspaper.

And he adds: "In late spring we are confident that we have come to terms with this situation and we hope that a few months earlier we will come out of the most worrying curve".

"The surge in infections risks undermining even teaching in the presence at school, there are regional presidents who have taken more restrictive measures, but that is not our goal, we want to defend, we hope until the end, the face-to-face teaching "underlines Conte.

"But we are vigilant about the primary objective which is the salvation of the country and the protection of health and the protection of the economic fabric", he underlines.

The premier - precisely to assess the Covid situation in schools - is participating in a meeting with the heads of government delegation, the undersecretary to the prime minister Riccardo Fraccaro, the minister Francesco Boccia, the experts of the CTS. 

"If we believe in man, in the sense of humanity, we can be optimistic. Because even a pandemic can be a unique and hopefully unrepeatable experience. We hope it will be a transformative experience and that in the end we will also be able to make a list of errors. , but the important thing is that we will try to take from this experience an incentive to be better people "concludes Conte. 

"We had a video conference with European leaders. There are contracts signed that foresee deliveries, there is a European agency that has already started the rolling review. We are confident to have it for December but only a few doses so we will have to make a plan to intervene on the most fragile groups or those exposed to the risk of contracting the virus. To have all the doses to counter the pandemic we will certainly have to wait for spring ", explains the premier. 

"We take all subsidies. We have a different approach to Spain because we also want to use the loans as they are useful for carrying out the reform project of the country. We have shortages of structures, we have to run more than average European Union and the crisis must turn into an opportunity with a sustainable development model. We are not only interested in economic indicators, but also in the quality of life of citizens ". 

"The reform of Article 18 is not on the table is not on the agenda", explained the premier.

"Yesterday the government decided to stop the layoffs and put the free covid layoffs on the plate until the end of March. The protection measures are necessary, many economists have pointed to Italy as a model".

 "When we go to make a plan, we will be able to integrate smart working into the design of an efficient public administration" continues Conte. 

"On closings we are already at least two weeks late. At least in some regions it would be necessary to close earlier".

So Andrea Crisanti, professor of microbiology at the University of Padua.

And he adds: "Now we are chasing the epidemic, we hope it is not too late. If we do not see different data on Wednesday, it will be over. We will necessarily go to lockdown, perhaps in a less severe form than in March. But something will be inevitable to do" . 

The President of the Higher Institute of Health,

, yesterday recalled: "We consider a national RT still growing, always referring to last week, we reiterate that the effects of the recent Dpcm we cannot yet see. The RT is around. at 1.7. All regions are above 1 and some are very high. We are in scenario 3 but towards 4. Some regions have already reached scenario 4 ". 

"Closures not like in March, but watch out for the third wave".

Luca Richeldi, a member of the CTS, says that "it makes sense to wait a few days to see if the measures taken with the last Dpcm will take effect".

Interviewed by Sole 24 Ore, Richeldi explains: "If the numbers are unmanageable then we need to think about more decisive measures at the national level, not a lockdown like the one in March but a sustainable intervention in the medium term because winter is long and there is no can rule out that there is also a third wave of Covid.

The numbers are as worrying as those seen in other European countries, but we can still try to manage the impact by trying to lower the pressure on hospitals.

We must also be ready for more decisive measures "even if - as far as schools are concerned -" it is worth saving an area that has a social importance especially for the little ones "because" we have tools that work and we have invested in them so much "therefore" for older students distance learning is a valid option ". 

" The situation is increasingly worrying.

During this weekend, stay at home as much as possible and limit meetings with family and friends to the bare essentials.

Let us remember our dead in the heart and in the mind and not crowding the cemeteries. "This is the appeal of Massimo Galli, head physician at the Sacco hospital in Milan and professor at the University of Studies of the Lombard capital, on Twitter.

"This week we had foreseen and we are going towards about 20 thousand cases". The data was reported by the general manager of Ats Milan Metropolitan City, Walter Bergamaschi. The trend shows "a flare-up in the first week of the month of October and then a doubling the following week.

Now the infections continue to grow in a worrying way ", says the Dg. So much so that the forecast for next week is to reach 30 thousand.

" In the 7 days from 4 to 10 October, the cases were 2 thousand, then tripled a week from 11 to 17, reaching 6 thousand, then they almost doubled in the week from 18 to 24, reaching 11,915 and this week we go towards 20 thousand registered infections ". This is the trend: from 2 thousand to 20 thousand, the infections are 10 times those at the beginning of the month. 10% of people who are hospitalized for Covid-19 (equal to about 5% of positives) end up in intensive care. So out of 200 cases, 10 are hospitalized and one goes to therapy In the last week the swabs processed in Ats Milano reached about 85 thousand, and - the General Manager specified during the hearing - we are "quite close to the limit." The Rt contagion index for Milan today is 1, 85.

The "pro" starts in the Lombard capital

ssima week with rapid antigen tests, which will be mainly intended for schools and the social and health sector "says Bergamaschi.

In fact, it is planned to create two or three large drive-throughs for schools where rapid tests can be taken and one of these will be near the Trenno Park.

The position of the others is being defined.

"The last nonsense I heard concerns the closure of entire territories. We talked about Milan and Naples ... Nobody is allowed to imagine half measures. For the level of gravity at which it is the contagion arrived, the only serious and effective measures are of a national nature, the rest is wasted time ".

The president of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca said in a direct Facebook.

"There are smaller Regions - he added - which have enormously higher rates of contagion than Naples. Don't be silly, the only effective measures are national in nature".