In Italy, the corona virus has caused a devastating situation. The number of deaths and infected people is increasing. The developments in the news ticker.
- The Coronavirus * pandemic has hit Italy particularly hard.
- The number of official deaths from Covid-19 lung disease continues to rise.
- The curfew * in Italy has been in effect since March 9.
- Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.
Update, 9:15 p.m .: In Italy , mainly older people infected with the coronavirus die. Protective measures are taken worldwide for this risk group - for example, special opening times in supermarkets. Soon also in Germany *?
Update, 8.50 p.m .: While Italy has more than 10,000 deaths due to the corona virus , there is now the first small glimmer of hope. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in a press conference in Rome on Saturday evening: "Today we had the highest number of people who were healed."
Conte added: "At the beginning of the week we will meet with the experts and are confident that they will bring us further good news." He has now released 4.3 billion euros for the support of the communities, Conte continued.
Civil protection chief Angelo Borrelli thanked Germany on Saturday for accepting Italian patients. He also defended the measures his government has taken to prevent the epidemic from spreading, without which the number of victims would be much higher.
Corona in Italy: Six employees of the Holy See fell ill
The Vatican reported two new Corona cases on Saturday. The total number of people suffering from Covid-19 among the staff of the Holy See and the citizens of the Vatican State rose to six, as spokesman Matteo Bruni said. "I can confirm that neither the Holy Father nor his closest associates are affected," he said.
Corona situation in Italy: More than 10,000 dead - German Air Force now flies out patients
Update, 6.30 p.m .: In Italy, more than 10,000 people have died as a result of an infection with the new coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 since the pandemic began.
Civil protection in Italy reported 889 new deaths on Saturday. The total number of deaths rose to 10,023. Hardly any more people are reported as well. But the number of people recovered could be much higher because it is not explicitly recorded in all countries. The number of new infections in Italy is slowly leveling off.
Numerous Catholic dioceses make rooms and real estate available. The Italian Bishops' Conference said in Rome on Saturday that there are more than 500 overnight accommodations for civil defense and the state health care system. 300 additional accommodations would be available for people in quarantine or patients discharged from clinical treatment, and almost 300 additional places for the homeless.
Corona situation in Italy becoming more and more glorious - now the German Air Force intervenes with a special Airbus
Update, 4:30 p.m .: The situation in Italy is becoming increasingly devastating. On Friday, the EU member reported almost 1,000 deaths due to the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus . The hospitals are overcrowded, the medical staff is reaching their limits every day.
Tweet: Air Force Airbus brings Italian patients to Germany
Last week, Italian military jets had brought Italian patients to Germany to relieve the overcrowded intensive care units. The German Air Force participated in the rescue mission for the first time this Saturday.
Corona in Italy: Six intensive care patients from Bergamo in Germany
Specifically: The Airbus A310 MedEvac , the flying intensive care unit of the Air Force, flew from Cologne to Bergamo on Saturday to bring patients to North Rhine-Westphalia for intensive care.
Cologne: The Airbus A310 MedEvac, the flying intensive care unit of the Bundeswehr, has returned from Bergamo.
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The aircraft returned to Cologne with six seriously ill Italians on board at noon, as a spokesman for the Air Force told the German Press Agency .
"In times of greatest need, it goes without saying that we stand by our friends," Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) said about the mission. "That is why we are now bringing seriously ill patients from Italy to Germany for treatment with our flying intensive care unit of the Air Force. It is an important sign of solidarity. Europe has to stick together. "
The MedEvac Airbus is a spectacular Bundeswehr aircraft. There are up to six places for intensive care treatment on board. There are also 38 additional berths, whereby increased medical monitoring with monitors is possible for 16 patients. This means that 44 patients can be transported lying down.
The responsible doctor, senior medical officer Susanne C., is in the Airbus A310 MedEvac, the flying intensive care unit of the Bundeswehr.
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The medical crew can count up to 25 people. The Air Force always has a MedEvac Airbus on standby at Cologne-Wahn Airport. In the coming days, more flights are planned to northern Italy , which is severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic .
Done. The 6 intensive care patients from Bergamo landed in Cologne with our # A310. They are then transported to clinics in Cologne, Bonn and Bochum. Together with @SanDstBw, more flights are planned in the next few days. # COVID19 #StrongerTogether @GermaniaItalia pic.twitter.com/MoNnhD25lw
- Team Air Force (@Team Air Force) March 28, 2020Corona situation in Italy is becoming increasingly tragic: Conte urges European solidarity
Update 3:16 pm: Italy and France are now calling for European solidarity - and thus indirectly attacking the Chancellor. Germany has been resisting the communitization of debt for years - but that is exactly what nine EU countries around Italy and France are now demanding in a letter to EU Council President Charles Michel . Italy's Prime Minister Conte sees the current crisis as a crisis that affects all countries together and therefore also needs a common plan to rebuild the economy.
Meanwhile, the patients who are flown from Italy to NRW have landed in Cologne.
Update of March 28, 8:01 am: The Corona crisis continues to paralyze Italy. In the meantime, patients have to be flown to Germany. Bitter: After the USA, Italy has now overtaken China in the number of confirmed corona infections. According to Johns Hopkins University, 86,468 diseases were reported to our European neighbors, including 9134 deaths. China has 81,946 infections and 3,299 fatalities.
Bad pictures: Italian army soldiers with mouthguards are waiting for the coffins from the Bergamo area to be carried from the military vehicle into a building of the Cinisello Balsamo cemetery.
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Update from March 27, 11:10 p.m .: Pope Francis spoke in Rome in a one-time campaign the special blessing "Urbi et Orbi" - in front of the deserted St. Peter's Square, which usually fits 100,000 believers.
“Deep darkness has settled on our squares, streets and cities. It has taken over our lives and filled everything with a deafening silence and a bleak emptiness that paralyzes everything as it passes, ”said the pontiff on Friday evening.
Corona in Italy: The coronavirus-infected Juventus Turin star is doing better
Update of March 27, 8:20 p.m .: Football and Serie A are also paralyzed in Italy due to the corona virus.
Football star Paulo Dybala, who tested positive for the corona virus, is on the mend after acute symptoms. "I can move, walk and do some training again," said the 26-year-old in an interview with the TV channel of his club Juventus Turin : "A few days ago I felt a certain weight, now things are going much better."
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At the beginning of the week, he “felt very tired after five minutes. My muscles ached, ”said the Argentine. His girlfriend Oriana Sabatini, who was also infected with the virus, is doing better.
Also in Piedmont, whose capital is Turin , there are now many Corona cases .
Update from March 27, 6.30 p.m .: Further Corona News: German researchers have made a real breakthrough in the fight against the corona virus * - this is how the reproductive enzyme is decoded.
In Munich, on the other hand, more than 200 restaurateurs send a cry for help * to Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) because of the corona crisis.
Corona crisis in Italy: more deaths than on any other day
Update from March 27, 6:10 p.m .: Sad climax of the Corona crisis in Italy - so far.
The Italians reported nearly 1,000 deaths from the corona pandemic in just one day - more than ever before. As it is officially stated, it has not been finally clarified whether the dead died with or on Covid-19 .
80 percent of the dead were over 70 years old, said the president of the national health institute (ISS), Silvio Brusaferro. 50 percent of the deceased also had at least three or more previous illnesses.
Sad convoy: military trucks carrying coffins from the deceased drive on the highway near Bergamo, one of the worst affected areas by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The number of deaths due to the corona pandemic thus rose provisionally by 969 to 9134 so far, as of earlier Friday evening, March 27. As the civil defense in Rome announced, the total number of infected people increased by almost 6,000 to 86,498. Only in the USA have more infected people been counted worldwide.
According to the top health institute, the curve of new infections is flattening somewhat - but it has not yet peaked.
Update of March 27, 4.30 p.m .: While epidemiologist Adriano Decarli expressed himself with a new theory on the outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy, doubts about the official figures are currently growing enormously.
More and more politicians and government officials are speaking up in northern Italy. They think the official death and infection numbers are far too low.
Corona in Italy: doubts about the official case numbers are getting louder
For example, only 31 deaths have so far been reported in Nembro near Bergamo , which is severely affected by the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus. Mayor Claudio Cancelli and an official wrote this on Thursday in the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera".
The men wrote that they were not convinced by anything in this number. "That's why we and the statistics on average deaths in the community from previous years looked from January to March," it continues.
Italian doctors fight day and night for people infected with the coronavirus.
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"Under normal circumstances, the number of deaths should be around 35. But this year we recorded 158 (deaths), 123 more than the average." As a result, the 31 deaths currently reported may not be consistent with reality .
Corona in Italy: Mayor of Brescia doubts the official figures
Similar inconsistencies should also exist in other places in the region. The mayor of the city of Brescia, which is severely affected by the corona virus, had also questioned the numbers.
The infections and deaths are much higher than officially stated . The reason for this is that many sick people are at home and you don't even know how they're doing, according to Mayor Emilio Del Bono.
Corona: Bad situation in Italy - was the reason nine years ago? New outbreak theory
First report from March 27: In Italy , the situation remains devastating due to the corona virus. Although there has recently been talk of a slight decrease in new infections, the numbers are rising again.
In Italy, more than 80,000 people are infected with the disease. According to John Hopkins University (as of March 27), 8,215 people have died from the effects of the coronavirus .
While doubts about the number of cases in Italy are increasing, a new theory about the outbreak of the coronavirus * is now coming to the public.
Corona: Did the virus appear in Italy in the last quarter of 2019?
Adriano Decarli, an epidemiologist from the University of Milan told Reuters, that there was a significantly higher number of flu and pneumonia infections in Lombardy in the third quarter of 2019.
Decarli did not give exact numbers, but indicated that there were hundreds more cases than usual. "We want to know whether the virus was already in Italy at the end of 2019 and - if so - why it remained undetected for a relatively long period of time," said the epidemiologist.
If the theory is actually correct, all previous figures on infected people and deaths * would literally have to be thrown out of the box, as focus.de reports. The question of “patient zero” * remains unanswered. Meanwhile, a heartbreaking video from Italy's restricted areas went around the world.
Corona in Italy: is the EU the cause of the devastating situation?
Meanwhile, hospitals and medical staff are reaching their limits in Corona times *. The clinics are overcrowded. More and more people are becoming infected with the virus . What role does the EU play in this?
The fact is: in 2011 Italy experienced a drastic wave of cuts - imposed by the European Central Bank (ECB) - which also affected the healthcare system . The ECB said in a letter that protection against rising interest rates on Italian government bonds would only be granted on condition of severe cuts. The result: the Italian government made the cuts and the number of hospitals in the country fell by 15 percent, as freitag.de mentioned in a report. 15 percent that the Italian healthcare system currently lacks.
Coronavirus: Are Healthcare Spending Cuts Fatal?
Even in the crisis of the euro zone that followed the financial crash of 2007 and 2008 , the ECB and the EU Commission literally moved mountains to save banks and financial players. However, public spending on social issues was largely ignored, which affected health systems in particular.
Is Europe now doomed to spending cuts and efforts to curb the increase in health spending?
The situation is also getting worse in Spain: 600 deaths within 24 hours. Experts make a bad assumption. They fear the second wave in China.
* merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
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