10/18/2020 1:59 PM
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Updated 10/18/2020 1:59 PM
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy reached
a record 11,705 in the last 24 hours
this Sunday
.
Much more testing is underway than during the March-April peak, when only the very sick were tested, but doctors have warned that
the virus is again infecting the most vulnerable patients
and hospitals are getting lower. stress.
A total of 750 patients were treated in intensive care on Sunday, 45 more than the day before, while
more than 7,000 people
were hospitalized, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health.
The pressure was especially acute in Lombardy, where 110 ICU beds were filled and more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized.
Italy has registered a total of 36,543 deaths.
The government is expected to announce additional restrictions
, after mandating the mandatory use of outdoor masks, banning casual sports and ordering bars and restaurants to close at midnight in an attempt to stem the contagion.
Meanwhile, 179 Italian doctors who have died during the COVID-19 crisis were honored on Sunday at a ceremony in the northern Italian city of Duno.
Their names were inscribed in marble in a sanctuary in the Lombardy region, which has been the worst affected area in the country.
The names include Dr. Roberto Stella, the first known Italian physician to die of COVID-19.
His death at the age of 67 on March 11 shocked the Italian medical sector and highlighted the risk that health professionals run with this virus.
Italy, the first country outside of Asia to detect local transmission of the virus,
has reported more than 10,000 cases per day in recent days
.
That's more than the virus's deadliest peak in March and April.
Government
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hold a press conference this afternoon - the time is unknown -
to announce the new measures he will adopt to contain the advance of these figures.
The representatives of the regions explained their proposals to the Government on Sunday, including allowing pharmacies to carry out diagnostic tests.
One of the points of greatest debate
was what to do with the bars,
restaurants and other establishments, which for a week have to close at midnight (if they do not have table service, at 21).
The regions agreed to keep this schedule and
would
even
be in favor of forcing
establishments that do not have table service
to close
at 6:00 p.m. to prevent people from milling about to drink or eat something at their doors.
In Turin, wearing a chinstrap given the increase in coronavirus cases.
Photo EFE
They have also asked the Government for greater
controls in party areas
and believe that gastronomic fairs and other events could be suspended.
However, there has been no talk of limitations to
hairdressers, beauty centers, gyms and swimming pools
, an idea with which the local media have been speculating in recent days.
On the other hand, they urge the Executive to promote telematic work to avoid saturation of means of transport, one of the great fears of the pandemic in the country.
The regions that register the most cases are Lombardy (north), the epicenter of the crisis from the first moment and today with almost three thousand positives, especially concentrated in its capital, Milan.
And Campania (south), with capital in Naples,
where there were almost 1,400 cases
(although half the tests were done than in the prosperous Lombardy, about 14,200).
Campania has suspended hospital admissions that are not urgent.
He had already closed classes in schools and imposed a curfew on Halloween night.
Source: AP and EFE
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