Double the double. The contagion is growing (also) in schools. In the last week there are 175 positive cases in Milan: there were 85 in the bulletin seven days ago, when the figure had already increased by another 50 percent compared to the previous week. Numbers that (for now) do not alarm the mayor Beppe Sala, who yesterday climbed the barricade of the minister Lucia Azzolina: “I would try to protect the idea of being at school,” he said. The first doubt about the evolution of the epidemic in the classrooms is resolved by Marino Faccini, head of the infectious diseases of Ats: «It is mainly high school children who get sick. Who do not get infected at school, but outside. For now we have no particular evidence on the younger ones, ”he explains. And here the thread is re-tied with the other critical chapters of the same story. The movida remains the driving force.
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It can be read in the number of positives with an increasingly lower average age (yesterday 1,080 in total, with a percentage of 6.2 on the tampons processed) but also from the queue of infections dragged between the walls of the house that generates shelters for parents and grandparents. Yesterday, another alarm bell: 12 new patients in intensive care for pneumonia. Which bring the total in the most critical wards to 62, of which 40 are intubated. But the number of less serious hospitalizations also increased by 83 units. For this reason, at yesterday’s table with the regional Technical Scientific Committee, the tones were sometimes turned on. With the CTS calling for a further squeeze in Lombardy to prevent the worrying numbers of these days from becoming unmanageable later on. And above all to stimulate hospitals to develop the plan for a transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 that could take place in a few days. The nodes remain the difficulty in following the tracing of cases, now that the infections increase, especially in the Milan area (yesterday 440), the spaces to be found to guarantee safe quarantines and social life inside and outside the premises.
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Guidance is to implement the indications contained in the Dpcm and verify its effectiveness in a few days », explained the councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera. The Region’s line therefore remains that of remaining within the limits signed by the government. In that same dpcm that the governor Attilio Fontana defined “conservative and confused”, underlining that the observations of the Regions on public transport and on distance learning for the upper classes have not been accepted. There is too much lightness among young people. Many think so, the director of Infectious Diseases Massimo Galli always repeats speaking of this good summer: “The matter is going to get ugly, if we don’t have serious and thoughtful interventions to reverse the trend, we too will find ourselves facing what is happening in France, Great Britain and Spain. We must reverse the trend otherwise we risk seeing unfortunately a lot of deaths ».
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Scenario, the current one, which worries the almost 600 Lombard health workers who yesterday signed an appeal to express their fears: “The risk is that the whole system will once again be put under extreme stress, the discipline of the people is not enough, a coordinated and far-sighted response from the institutions is needed,” the doctors write. Fontana claims that this is enough for now and that it is not the time to lower the shutters of bars and restaurants at 6 pm. Instead, he asks the mayor Beppe Sala for a hand to guarantee more checks on the territory, in particular to the preferred addresses for the nightlife gatherings.
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14 October 2020 | 07:42
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