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15 December 2020A record listed in mourning for Veneto.
165 died in just 24 hours.
It is the highest number of Covid casualties in this second wave.
A number that exceeds even that of the black day of 10 December with 148 deaths.
The president of the Region, Luca Zaia, in the press point at the Civil Protection Crisis Unit, admits that this is "a high figure", but explains that this sad figure can also be reached by counting yesterday's deaths.
"I have the obligation to tell you that yesterday we had only 25 deaths and it was not possible - he explains -. I say this because yesterday's data was uploaded to today, I say it to be fair".
Today there are "165 dead" therefore, "but I must have the honesty to say that we have data loaded late".
Admissions
An alarming situation also for hospitalized people: 3,324, plus 57 in the last 24 hours.
"It is as if - said Zaia - almost 7 large provincial hospitals were geared towards Covid patients." There are 357 hospitalizations in intensive care, a stable number compared to yesterday, in line with the peak last March. the number of patients in non-critical wards. Here the curve rises by a third compared to April.
Nursing homes: the highest mortality in March
Another point is nursing homes. "We are here praying for vaccines to arrive.
Because there would be a ray of sunshine in this tragedy. "Zaia urges the reporters:" Do you think the administrators are running to count dead ?.
Do you realize what historical period we are in?
On the other hand, we find ourselves with a worsened response in nursing homes, despite the prevention measures that we dreamed of in March.
In addition to being armored, - underlines the president - in retirement homes we swab operators and guests, we have made swabs available to visitors ". Measures that have not stopped the virus run." We have more mortality in retirement homes. than the one we had in March when - said Zaia - we justified the data, which was less, by saying that there were no devices, there was no aggressive testing campaign.
Also, most of the nursing homes were virus-free, clean.
Now we have a virus that has spread across the board all over the place.
We have an out-of-hospital mortality in retirement homes, which are closed, armored ".
Restrictions and refreshments
The press point also addresses the issue of restrictions and refreshments. Restrictions in this situation are necessary, but for Zaia, we must not go in order The gatherings? It is a national issue. "The Government - he adds - poses a national question and with respect to the restrictions they will want to take, I do not have a hostile position.
Let's see, in the next few hours, what game we will have ". Another question is the refreshments. In the meeting with the mayors of the territory it was the lowest common denominator, the real theme - says the president - that would align everyone." Everyone agrees that the measures are directly proportional to the amount of refreshments that we can be sure of having ".
"If you take a measure at national level with refreshments, done well, it can be an incisive solution. I imagine - concluded Zaia - that the reasoning that could come out of it is to borrow the measures of the colors of the regions. 'it is a decision accompanied by refreshments, it is obvious that we are going to a minimum solution, simply of gatherings on Saturday and Sunday ”.