“We can’t wait for Christmas, now two weeks are enough. After no more “. This is the alarm raised by Walter Ricciardi, consultant to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, who spoke during a television interview. What Christmas holidays await us? “It depends on what we decide at the moment,” said the expert
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“I believe that some targeted lockdowns must be done immediately, we absolutely must not wait for Christmas”, since “today maybe two weeks are enough but when you go further, then they are not enough anymore”. This is the alarm raised by Walter Ricciardi, consultant to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, during an interview granted to the program “Agorà”, on Rai 3. According to the expert, the Christmas holidays for Italians will depend “on what we decide Right now. If we take them promptly, adequately and proportionately measures right we will have a Christmas, I don’t mean normal, but almost normal, ”he said. “If we delay, we will see an exponential increase in almost, especially in some areas of the country, and then we will have to make very hard decisions later, but then it will take much longer “, added the expert.
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According to Ricciardi, doctor and full professor of Hygiene at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, “an epidemic is fought with the behavior of people and with tracking, but when you go over 10,000-11,000 cases and you are no longer able to to track and then you have to contain ”, he stressed again. “In certain situations, the necessary containment is now such that a lockdown must be made, targeted but it must be done”, he added.
The Italian outbreaks
Meanwhile, the numbers issued by the latest bulletin of the Ministry of Health, dated 18 October, say that 11,705 new cases of contagion were registered in Italy, compared to 146,541 swabs carried out. There were 69 deaths. Outbreaks have developed in almost all regions (THE MAIN FIELDS IN ITALY) and among these that of Lombardy and the Morelli hospital in Sondalo (Sondrio) where some doctors and nurses tested positive for Covid-19, after about ten days ago they had attended a party among colleagues. The health management of the hospital Lombardy ordered the immediate closure of the Medicine ward where the infected health personnel work, in addition to having provided for the transfer of patients hospitalized in other hospitals in Valtellina and the acceptance of admissions for the closed ward was suspended. Among the other recent outbreaks, also that of Emilia-Romagna, where out of 63 new positives in the province of Ferrara, 55 are linked to a structure for the elderly. Specifically, 39 guests are infected, all already isolated and tested, while the other 16 are operators of the same RSA.
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