The Ministry of Health has published and receive minutes of the coronavirus task force in the period from January 22 to February 21, 2020, when the word pandemic had not yet entered our daily vocabulary. According to reports, in February last year, experts considered the infections limited to China and that there was no circulation of the virus in Italy and Europe.
Covid, the first minutes of the Health task force published: no transmission of the virus in Italy
There are 31 documents relating to as many meetings, from the first to the one in which the hospitalization of the so-called “patient one”, the 38-year-old from Codogno, was announced.
The coronavirus was a distant echo and the terms Sars-CoV-2 and Covid-19 did not yet exist, but on January 21, 2020, a press release was announced that theestablishment of a ministerial task force, as indicated in the minutes of the session, with the task of “coordinating any initiative relating to the Coronavirus 2019-nCoV”.
At the meeting of 6 February 2020, the Higher Institute of Health indicates that “there is no transmission of the virus before symptoms appear”And suggests preparing“ a plan to implement intensive care places in the event that there is an epidemic in our country ”.
Covid, published the first minutes of the Health task force: the pandemic plan
It will be for the first time in the session of 15 February, on the initiative of Francesco Paolo Maraglino, of the Prevention department of the ministry, that the need for update the national pandemic plan developed in the 2009 influenza pandemic.
“Dr. Maraglino – reads the minutes of the meeting – highlights the need to update the National Plan for the preparation and response to an influenza pandemic, dating back to 2009”.
Of pandemic plan we will talk again at the meeting on February 16th, when Maraglino “informs that the working table for updating the pandemic plan will meet on February 18th. We will work in sub-groups to speed up the work ”.
The expert group was permanently operational, met daily and was made up of the Directorate General for Prevention, the other competent Directorates, the Carabinieri dei Nas, the ISS, the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, the Maritime, Air and Border Health Offices, by the AIFA, by the Agenas and by the diplomatic adviser.
The publication on the website of the Ministry of Health has arrived in execution of the sentence of the Lazio TAR of 7 May last, following the appeal made by the deputy of the Brothers of Italy Galeazzo Bignami, who was denied access to the documents.
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