The second corona wave also hits Italy hard.
The Conte government decides to stricter Covid-19 protective measures.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Italy
: The number of
new corona infections
continues to increase dramatically.
The Italian government of
Giuseppe Conte
resolves tougher
Covid-19
* protective measures
.
Follow all developments regarding the
second Corona wave
*
in
Italy
here in the
news ticker
.
Update from November 10, 2020:
The
corona situation in Italy
is getting worse.
In some parts of the country
stricter restrictions
are now to be
imposed.
The region of
Liguria
in the northwest and
Abruzzo
in central Italy are to be declared orange zones on Wednesday.
The presidents there announced on Twitter.
The
Tuscany
should, according to the Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, are orange.
The
Ansa
news
agency also
named
Basilicata
and
Umbria
as other candidates.
Italy
is divided into three
corona zones
: The strictest measures apply in the red zones.
Orange is the middle, yellow is the lowest.
In orange areas, restaurants and bars must be closed all day.
It is also forbidden to move between different regions and municipalities.
Exceptions apply to driving to work or traveling for health reasons.
The
experts of the Ministry of Health
are for even
more stringent restrictions
.
"The epidemiological situation continues to deteriorate in our country," said expert Giovanni Rezza.
On Monday, the health authorities reported almost
25,300 new corona infections
and
356 deaths
within one day.
The number of new infections is often lower on Mondays due to fewer test capacities at the weekend.
On Saturday, the authorities had reported just over 39,800 cases.
Corona in Italy: Doctors boss calls for "total lockdown" of the country and fears "ten thousand deaths"
Update from November 9th, 2 p.m.: Italy
is deeply in the
second Corona wave
, figuratively speaking, and doctors and nurses are sounding the alarm with a view to hospital capacities.
"We expect hospital stays and intensive care to double next week if the trend doesn't change," said Alessandro Vergallo, president of the Association of Anesthetists of Hospital Resuscitation Doctors (Aaroi) of the daily
La Republicca
.
The
intensive care units are
already under pressure, which is why the “proposal for national isolation is sensible”.
Update from November 9th, 12 noon:
Based on the numbers, the worries in
Italy
about the
corona
virus can be figured out.
The Ministry of Health in
Rome
has now developed its own digital dashboard that
illustrates
the
corona situation
between
Milan
and
Bari,
between
Palermo
and
Naples
.
Accordingly, the following
Covid-19 situation appeared
in Italy
on Sunday, November 8th
:
Corona cases in Italy | People / people |
currently positively infected with Corona | 558,636 |
Corona deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic | 41,394 |
Sick of Covid-19 and meanwhile healed | 335.074 |
Total corona cases since the outbreak of the pandemic | 935.104 |
🔴 # COVID19 - La situazione in Italia all'8 novembre: https://t.co/8ciMmO9yfx pic.twitter.com/NJWT0MoxER
- Ministero della Salute (@MinisteroSalute) November 8, 2020
Corona pandemic in Italy: The Covid 19 situation was still under control in midsummer
First report from November 9th
: Munich / Rome -
Italy
was the ultimate memorial in the first big wave of the
coronavirus pandemic
*
.
The pictures from
Bergamo
with military convoys transporting corpses have burned themselves into the collective memory.
After the Mediterranean country had the infection rate largely under control in midsummer, the
Repubblica Italiana
also has
to fight
hard with the
Corona situation
*
in autumn
.
Coronavirus pandemic: Italy is struggling with the second corona wave
Since the beginning of November, a so-called gentle lockdown including night curfew has been in effect in the country with 60 million inhabitants.
Is that enough to press the numbers?
No, says a doctor chief and calls for far more drastic measures to contain the
insidious lung disease
.
"Over the past week we have recorded an average of a thousand hospital stays and over three hundred deaths a day,"
Filippo Anelli
, president of the Federation of Medical Orders,
told
La Repubblica
daily
.
Anelli said, “If the trend stays the same, we will have
ten thousand more deaths
and five thousand patients in the intensive care unit.
We need drastic measures immediately, such as a
total lockdown
”.
Corona pandemic in Italy: Doctors boss makes a drastic demand because of Covid-19
The doctor's boss was concerned and confirmed with a view to
Corona
*
: "Total lockdown now, or we will have 10,000 more deaths in a month."
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developments on the corona pandemic
in
Italy
here in the
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* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
