"Tests are a strategic issue to address the coming months. To date, all international institutions recognize the classic molecular swab as the gold standard and we have strengthened our capabilities, with over 100 thousand swabs a day and we plan to increase this number".
Health Minister Roberto Speranza said this at the question time in the Chamber.
"On the part of the state, the underlying problem relating to the availability of masks is a problem that has been addressed and overcome."
"All regions have made an enormous effort, as has civil protection, but the production of devices such as masks has been relocated over the years to other areas of the world and all countries have found themselves in difficulty, but today Italy - he noted - it is no longer at the mercy of an international market because it has fielded a public production with 30 million masks per day ".
"This is the response of the state which protects us from all the bad weather of February and March".
With respect to "alleged relations of individual companies with criminal organizations, I can only express the utmost confidence in the investigative bodies".
"We will have a great opportunity because for the first time we will be able to reform the NHS in a time when there are more resources. We must recover the lost ground on digital health and enhance it as a key theme of the reform. So we will use all the resources available to invest in telemedicine and digital and we will invest in a new plan to replace all obsolete machinery in our country ".
This was stated by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, at the question time in the Chamber, underlining that digital is "a strategic horizon for the construction of the new SSN".