Hope: no to institutional fights, measures are not a punishment

• Coronavirus, Hope: "Coexistence with the virus is doomed to failure without limitations"

• Coronavirus in Calabria: Saverio Cotticelli, Commissioner for Health has resigned

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November 07, 2020 "In these difficult months I have never argued with any president and I think that the country does not need institutional fights but common work. It is evident that everyone knew well how the system worked and it is evident that they even know before us these data because these data arise at a regional level, the number of beds, the number of people you engage in contact racing, the number of days that pass between the start date of symptoms and the date of the tampon ".

Thus the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in a TV broadcast.

"We need - he said - a single great team against a single insidious enemy". 

"Yes, I take responsibility for the measures" that have led to the division of Italy into risk areas and closures "if there is a life to be saved", the Minister of Health later said, underlining that it is not a question of " a punishment but to help the territory get out of a difficult phase ".

"We have not made any evaluation that goes outside the parameters. The parameters that are built on the basis of the data that the regions provide to the ISS have led to these results".

So Roberto Speranza, about the clashes in Naples.

"It is not that these numbers and these data are fixed forever - explains Speranza - there will be an element of dynamism".

The scheme, he adds, "photographs evolution, it's not that this is the usual photography. The important thing is that the scientific parameters always guide us". 

"This commissioner had been appointed by the previous government and had not been renamed by our government, as I have erroneously heard in these hours. But I think there is a bigger issue concerning health in that region and on Wednesday, long before this controversy broke out, we approved in the Council of Ministers a decree law on health in Calabria which finally creates the conditions for a restart, because it puts more resources, gives more powers to those who must govern that health and puts more significant skills in the field. There will now be a need for new and motivated people who want to open a different page for Calabrian healthcare, which for us is one of the fundamental points on which to commit ourselves with all energy ".

This was stated by the Minister of Health regarding the case of the Calabrian Health Commissioner who has resigned Saverio Cotticelli.