Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the headquarters of the Department of Civil Protection for the new meeting of the Coronavirus emergency operating committee . At the table are also the ministers Luigi Di Maio, Roberto Speranza and Paola De Micheli and the extraordinary commissioner and head of the Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli.
"A whole series of technical and political evaluations are underway, even with the regions, it is a complex matter". Sources of Palazzo Chigi explained to reporters the reasons for the long meeting at the Civil Protection Department with Prime Minister Conte and several ministers. "There is a further analysis of the ministers present at the table, also with Minister Guerini, who is in constant contact from Lodi, for a whole series of assessments that must be made", they added, saying then in the evening Prime Minister Conte should hold a press conference at the Department headquarters, as originally planned after the morning meeting.
"My thoughts and the condolences of the whole government go to the two victims and their families," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote on Facebook in the morning. " We are working tirelessly to react with maximum compactness to this emergency " . "Soon I will be back to the Civil Protection Operations Committee for an update on the Coronavirus emergency and to evaluate new extraordinary measures."
The extraordinary Council of Ministers on the coronavirus emergency will be held at 18:30 . The meeting, in which ad hoc measures on the dossier will be taken, will be held at the Civil Protection headquarters in Rome.
On the request made to the Conte government by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region "to provide controls also on land borders, in order to monitor the entrances on the national territory, we took note of the Prime Minister's response that, at the moment, with respect to the information acquired and the level of contagion, the measure is to be excluded ": so the governor Massimiliano Fedriga . However, "the central government has expressed its willingness to confront the border regions for further information on the issue".
In Milan, a meeting at the Milan Prefecture headquarters convened to take stock of the situation after the Coronavirus infections in Lombardy. At the table sit the prefect of Milan, Renato Saccone, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, the commissioner of Milan, Sergio Bracco, the councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera, the deputy mayor and councilor for security, Anna Scavuzzo, the commander of the local police of Milan, Marco Ciacci and the director of civil protection of Milan, Cristiano Cozzi.