Coronavirus: Rezza, 14 crucial days for the progress of the cases

The next "14 days will be crucial to understand the trend of cases of contagion from new coronavirus in Italy". The director of the infectious diseases department of the ISS Gianni Rezza affirms this to ANSA. "It is still too early to pronounce. The effects of the restrictive measures - he underlines - will not be seen within this week, even for what happened in recent days with the massive movements from Milan. For this week I expect an increase in cases and not a decrease These days will 'discount' what unfortunately happened, then we will begin to see. "

FIRST DEATH IN AOSTA VALLEY - On the day in which the first victim of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Valle d'Aosta is registered, positive cases rise to 18 (plus the deceased patient). The data was provided by the Crisis Unit. Among the infected, two are hospitalized in the regional Parini hospital in Aosta while the other 16 are in home isolation. In total, 99 swabs were made in the Alpine region, of which 47 are awaiting outcome by the Amedeo di Savoia hospital in Turin. Finally, 213 people for whom the mayors have prepared an order for "precautionary home isolation", under medical surveillance, so have their family members and the people with whom they have had close contacts.

IN LOMBARDIA APPROXIMATELY 1,500 NEW INFECTED PEOPLE - "Unfortunately the number of people infected is increasing substantially, we are finishing collecting data but there are about 1400-1500 new people infected. If we cannot stop this virus, we risk going out of control with our health system ": said the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana who spoke to Italia7Gold.

FIRST DEATH IN CUNEO, THE DEAD IN PIEDMONT ARE 21 - The death at Cuneo hospital of a 68-year-old man, who presented a picture defined by the health professionals as "compromise", brings the number of coronavirus-positive deaths in Piedmont to 21. This is learned from regional health sources. Coronavirus positive people increased to 501, 75 hospitalized in intensive care. There are 86 people in home isolation. The province with the largest number of cases, 159, is that of Turin. Follow Alessandria (105), Asti (68), Biella (36), Novara (27), Vercelli (24), Cuneo (17) and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (13). There are 19 positive cases from outside the region.

SPALLANZANI RECOVERED 73 POSITIVES - 88 patients are currently hospitalized at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. There are 73 positive Covid-19 patients, including 13 who need respiratory support. In particular for some of them the clinical picture is stable or improving. " This is what emerges from today's medical bulletin. There are 15 patients under observation - continues the bulletin -. There are 295 patients discharged who have passed the clinical phase and who are negative for the search for the new coronavirus. This is what emerges from today's Spallanzani medical bulletin. "During the day - continues the bulletin - further resignations of patients already negative on the first test and however asymptomatic are expected".

IN APULIA PEAK EXPECTED BY THE FIRST OF APRIL - The peak of the coronavirus infection in Puglia could be reached between the end of March and the beginning of April, the goal is to contain about two thousand sick people, of these thousand they should have only mild symptoms . 15% of the remaining one thousand patients, on the other hand, will need hospitalization in intensive care. This is the scenario that for now is hypothesized by the Apulian regional task force, according to which if the numbers were confirmed, the Apulian health system would withstand the impact. For this task force, ASL and hospitals are committed to containing infections as much as possible, intervening quickly on the chain of infections. "We are preparing to support the attack," Governor Michele Emiliano wrote on his Facebook page last night. "We are preparing - to continue - to support the weight of thousands of infections, hoping to never get to these numbers. We are asking everyone to stay at home to lower the number of infected people and sometimes the stupidity of some makes us angry. Our hospitals they have suspended all that is not urgent and separate the pathways between ordinary and suspected coronavirus patients. " "You can count masks, glasses and overalls - he says - taking care not to waste them because they will be useful in the heat of the battle that is about to start. We have commissioned them from the factories that build them and we hope that they will deliver them to us in time. The enemy is about to arrive, it will reveal itself suddenly, through small ailments that had never frightened us before. But now a few lines of fever and a little difficulty in breathing are enough to worry us ".