The number of coronavirus deaths rises to 902. The number of victims has now exceeded that of SARS victims worldwide in 2002-2003. Six new cases on the Diamond Princess. In China we go back to school and work. The eight Italians from Wuhan returned to Rome, including 2 newborn babies. In the next few days a flight of the military air force will recover the 17 year old from Grado, still struggling with a fever. Inter-ministerial table on Coronavirus tomorrow at Palazzo Chigi, with Prime Minister Conte, ministers Di Maio and Speranza.
The new coronavirus tests are negative for the two children of 4 and 8 years old in quarantine at Cecchigola and hospitalized at Spallanzani. After the second verification, they will be able to join the rest of the family in Cecchignola to complete the surveillance period. "
On Monday at 10.30 in Palazzo Chigi, Prime Minister Conte has convened an inter-ministerial table on Coronavirus. The competent ministers, including Roberto Speranza and Luigi Di Maio, and the emergency commissioner Angelo Borrelli will participate in the meeting to be chaired by the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte.
A task force to study a series of measures to support companies, in different sectors, to face the economic impact of the Coronavirus emergency. It is one of the initiatives that, as far as we learn, the government should adopt in the interministerial table. "We must take action to contain this impact," Prime Minister Conte said a week ago when he met with the parliamentary groups. Any interventions, it is explained, will depend on the picture that will emerge.
THE SPALLANZANI MEDICAL BULLETIN - "All the tests relating to suspected cases for the new coronavirus were negative, including the test for the Italian woman sent to us, as a precaution, by the Military City of Cecchignola and the couple from a city emergency room ". This is what emerges from Spallanzani's new medical bulletin. "To date, 53 patients who have been tested for new coronavirus have been evaluated at our acceptance . Of these, 36 negative test results have been discharged. Seventeen patients are still hospitalized." So Spallanzani in the daily newsletter. " Three - it is explained - are confirmed cases (the Chinese couple currently in intensive care and the young man from the Cecchignola site) ; 12 are patients undergoing tests for the search for the new coronavirus awaiting results; 2 are patients who, results negative to the test for new coronavirus, however, remain hospitalized for other clinical reasons ". "The Italian citizen, transferred two days ago from the dedicated facility of the Military City of Cecchignola and with infection confirmed by a new coronavirus, is in good general condition and without a fever." "The patient continues antiviral therapy," continues the hospital.
ITALIANS FROM WUHAN RETURNED - The plane from the Brize Norton Raf base in Oxfordshire landed at the Pratica di Mare military airport , carrying the small group of 8 Italians from Wuhan, the outbreak region of Coronavirus . After the first checks, they were taken to the Celio military hospital in Rome to be quarantined. In the group there are also two babies, a boy and a girl . Among them is not the 17 year old student of Grado, Niccolò, still struggling with a fever. Niccolò, was brought back to the hotel and "is fine". Do not miss the "disappointment for the snag", reports those who have heard it in these hours, for having lost the British plane that left with about 200 European passengers, including 8 Italians. On Monday, due to the fever, he had not embarked on the flight of the Farnesina Crisis Unit with 56 other compatriots. Her parents, too, it is learned, are not particularly worried. "" The Ministry of Health thought it easier to bring the eight Italians who had recently returned from Wuhan to Celio, also for reasons of places. "So the head of the Crisis Unit della Farnesina, Stefano Verrecchia , replied to those who asked him why he chose to bring the eight Italians who returned from Wuhan to the Celio hospital in Rome and not to the military city of Cecchignola, where the other Italians in quarantine who returned last Monday are .
On the other hand, the controversy over the Ministry of Health's c ircular for schools for children returning from China does not subside . Monitoring with " voluntary stay at home " for the " timely verification of the fever and the typical symptoms of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV" aimed at children and students of all nationalities who, in the 14 days prior to their arrival in Italy, were in the areas of China affected by the epidemic. The Ministry of Health has updated the circular for schools inspired by "the principle of maximum precaution". Absences are justified. In an interview in La Stampa, Minister of Education Luciana Azzolina made clear that doctors will decide whether students returning from China should stay home or return to class . And he clarifies that it will not be principals or parents who will have to decide, because there will be a daily monitoring of the returned students done by the reference ASL.
Meanwhile, the line regarding the stop to flights to and from China does not change. Minister of Health Roberto Speranza underlines this from the columns of the Corriere: diplomatic relations are relevant and economic issues are fundamental, he explains, but the right to health is even more important. And he adds that alarmism is wrong, but a very high attention span must be kept.
Hong Kong meanwhile imposes quarantine for those who enter . A meeting of EU health ministers convened for 13 February in Brussels .
Health authorities in Hong Kong have decided that the 1,800 passengers and crew of the World Dream cruise ship, in quarantine on Wednesday , will soon be allowed to leave after all the people on board have tested negative for coronavirus . Eight Chinese passengers, on the same ship and on a different journey, had been infected, raising fears of possible contagion. Tests on all failed, said Leung Yiu-hong, head of the Port Administration's health division.
Fourth case of coronavirus infection in the United Kingdom . This was announced by Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, specifying that the tests conducted on a patient tested in England were "positive" and that the person was transferred to a specialized center of the Royal Free Hospital: his infection occurred in France, where 5 other British citizens on holiday in Haute-Savoie had been infected with the Chinese virus on the spot, due to contacts with another tourist who had contracted it in Singapore. Witty ensures that the British health system continues to ensure "robust" measures against the further spread of the Chinese virus and is trying to trace whether it has come into contact with the infected.
