"The curve of new cases in the population seems to be attenuating. But we have not reached the peak" - New cases in Codogno. Seized in Calabria 900 fake diagnosis kits and 13 thousand masks in Taranto sold at stellar prices. Minister Azzolina: high school exams with internal members and external president. The Pope donates 30 respirators to hospitals. Antimalarial drugs are authorized.
ROME - Day after day the list of doctors who died on the field for Covid-19 is getting longer. And the total rises to 51. At dawn Anna Maria Focarete, provincial councilor of the Fimmg of Lecco, died. In Bergamo Benedetto Comotti and Giulio Calvi died. And then Dino Pesce, an internist at the Villa Scassi hospital in Sampierdarena in Genoa; Marcello Ugolini, pulmonologist and councilor of the Pesaro-Urbino Medical Association; Abdel Sattar Airoud, family doctor from Piacenza; Giuseppe Maini, family doctor from Piacenza; Luigi Rocca, pediatrician from Piacenza; Maurizio Galderisi, cardiologist and professor of medicine at the Federico II University of Naples; Leone Marco Wischkin, an internist from Pesaro-Urbino. To draw up this dramatic list is the Fnomceoon a page of the site listed in mourning that will soon be updated three times a day. 6,414 health workers are infected. Yesterday other 4,492 positives and 712 deaths. The total number of patients is 62,013, that of the victims 8,215.
Brusaferro (Iss): "The curve of new cases seems to diminish, but it is not the peak".
The curve of new positives in Covid-19 seems to have stopped growing as it did in the early days of last week. "The relevant data is that starting from 19-20 the number of new cases reported decreases, the curve seems to diminish ". said the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro, at the ISS press point. " But we must not delude ourselves that a slowdown in diffusion can lead us to slow down the measures we have adopted . There are different realities in the country, Lombardy and neighboring areas with very strong circulation, while in other areas there is still limited circulation, where the the challenge is to keep those pink areas from turning red. " And he concluded: "I want to be clear on one point.We have not reached the peak, we have not passed it . We have signs of slowing down which make us assume that we are close, it means that the measures taken are having their effects, we could reach the peak these days. We are slowing down growth, we are not going down. And the descent, when there will be, will be built on our behavior ".
Locatelli (Css): "To date an extension of the restrictive measures is inevitable".
"If we had to decide with today's data I think it is inevitable to prolong these measures, because we are not in a markedly declining phase but with important containment". said the president of the Superior Health Council (Css), Franco Locatelli. This is encouraging but not prolonging the isolation measures "would be contradictory with the messages given so far". Fontana, make more tampons but reduce infections.
"Even today there has been a greater processing of tampons, despite the fact that there is a reduction in the number of infections. We are pleased." This was stated by the president of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, in the press point on the coronavirus emergency. And he added: "I think the descent is about to begin. Even today there has been a trial of more swabs than in the previous days - he said - and today we are witnessing a reduction in the number of infections. We are pleased but it is the demonstration that obviously it is necessary to do the average of at least 5 days to have a vision, the vision confirms that yesterday's was determined by an absolutely particular situation ".
New cases in Codogno after the stop in the red zone.
There are new cases of Covid-19 in Codogno (Lodi) which was one of the initial outbreaks of the coronavirus epidemic. The reopening of the former protected area where the first infected was discovered over a month ago would have caused new cases of positivity in Covid-19. "We have six more positives - explains Francesco Passerini, mayor of Codogno and president of the Province of Lodi in Corriere della Sera," In the last few days we had stopped at 268 cases. A sign that the bans introduced with the red zone had worked. "After weeks of progressive decline in the trend, which also reached one percent, the trend has been rising in recent days.
Antimalarial drugs are authorized in Italy.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine based antimalarial drugs are authorized in Italy to treat Covid-19 patients: they are fully paid by the National Health Service for the treatment of patients with Sars-CoV2 infection. It reads in the Official Journal. Also authorized for the same use are the combinations of the anti-AIDS drugs lopinavir / ritonavir, danuravir / cobicistat, darunavir, ritonavir, these also paid for by the National Health Service.
New infections in Italy are growing again.
After 4 days he goes back, the number of new positives at Covid-19 in Italy rises again, but fortunately the contagion curve continues to slow down. Yesterday at 6 pm there were 4,492 more than the previous day, for a total of over 62 thousand people currently infected. A figure that - was said during the press conference on civil protection - o could also have been affected by the greater number of swabs made. The figure on the dead was yesterday of 712 people (50 more than the official bulletin communicated by the Civil Protection, from which there were no victims in Piedmont) against 683 on Wednesday, bringing the total death toll with coronavirus to 8215. The healed exceeded for the first time the ten thousand (10,361 people), 999 more. The total number of people who contracted the virus in Italy reaches 80,539. The head of Civil Protection Borrelli, who was not present at the usual press conference due to the fever, tested negative. Meanwhile, the self-certification form has changed with the modification of the provisions.
More swabs, more positive in Lombardy.
The increase in the number of coronavirus positives in Lombardy, the region most affected by the epidemic, "is linked to the fact that more swabs have been made," said the regional councilor for education and doctor, Melania Rizzoli. Only yesterday, he explained, 6,050 swabs were performed. "More positive - he also adds - it no longer means full-blown diseases and the demonstration is that the number of hospitalizations has not increased. We all had a strong emotion yesterday seeing the data but the numbers must be interpreted. It is the increase in the number of buffers carried out which caused the number of positives to increase ".
In total, 3,732 patients were hospitalized in intensive care, 120 more than yesterday. Of these, 1,292 are in Lombardy. Of the 66,414 patients overall, 26,029 are then hospitalized with symptoms and 36,653 are those in home isolation. The data was made known by the Civil Protection.
Drop in Lazio.
"199 cases of positivity today and a slightly decreasing trend and for the first time below 10%, or 9.5%". So the councilor for Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D'Amato, at the end of today's videoconference of the regional task force for Covid-19. "7,035 came out of home surveillance and 12 died" during the day. There was a birth at Gemelli of a positive woman at Covid-19 and everything went well. Finally, the Covid Hospital of Tor Vergata has started and from today on the network there is also the Israelite hospital.
(post is archived)