Calabria: Gaudio Health Commissioner, Gino Strada consultant

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November 16, 2020 "Professor Eugenio Gaudio, magnificent Rector of the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', of Cosenza origin, has been entrusted with the task of new Health Commissioner of the Calabria Region.

Gino Strada has confirmed his willingness to part of the team, also with a special delegation, which in Calabria is facing the critical issues of the current health emergency. Two authoritative names that can help Calabrian healthcare to restart ".

Sources from Palazzo Chigi affirm this. 

"We asked the government, insistently, to represent us from a Calabrian who could take control of the situation by knowing the way it breathes. The government understood this, acknowledged it and today proposed the rector Gaudio who has a medical career behind him to the commissioner. that never ends, a truly excellent curriculum. She is one that has great administrative skills, so even though she still refuses the instrument of the commissioner, because we hope for an ordinary administration, but it is true that I like to think that, because the child of this earth, we can imagine him as the first health councilor of the second period of Calabria ".

The acting president of Calabria Nino Spirlì said this in a live on Facebook on the appointment of the new health commissioner in Calabria.

In Calabria today there is a new increase in the number of hospitalizations for coronavirus, which in 24 hours went from 383 to 403 (+20).

The data emerges from the region's daily bulletin on the trend of Covid.

Today's increase concerns both infectious diseases (+16 compared to yesterday, for a total of 358 hospitalizations), and intensive care (+4 compared to yesterday, for a total of 45 hospitalizations).

In Catanzaro there are 91 admissions (of which 17 in intensive care), in Cosenza 133 (of which 19 in intensive care), in Reggio Calabria 132 (of which 9 in intensive care), in Crotone 32, in Vibo Valentia 15.

"I have no reason to think that there are other elements other than this".

Giuseppe Zuccatelli, in an interview with RaiNews24, states that the government's request to leave the post of health commissioner in Calabria is to be attributed to the video dating back to last May in which he said that masks were not needed.

"It was a media short circuit," he notes.

"We live in a society of communication, in a very fragile society that has been taken by surprise by a cursed virus that has hit Italy, Europe and the whole world. All this - he underlines - is very complicated and problematic. I'm very sorry but these things happen in life ".