"It is happening that in the world there are countries that want to help us and countries that think about themselves.
We are denouncing the latter, the ones who take our masks ". Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told 'L'Aria che tirira' su La7." In these hours 800,000 masks have been unlocked and they are arriving towards l Italy, "he said." 68 respirators are also arriving from the United States, "Di Maio announced.
While Transport Minister Paola De Micheli , speaking in Agorà on Rai 3, did not rule out that the government could extend the measures taken against Coronavirus to beyond April 3. "We will evaluate based on the numbers," he said. "These are evaluations that we will do in the next few days, but I do not rule it out."
The Foreign Minister also said that "on the closure or not of the borders we will rely on the scientific community without proclamations". "Goods - Di Maio assured - will always continue to travel, because our companies have to work. We buy Made in Italy in the supermarket to help our companies and our workers". "The Foreign Ministry's Crisis Unit receives tens of thousands of calls a day, the latest numbers speak of 30,000. The priority is our students, Erasmus or non-Erasmus, and citizens who had temporarily gone to other countries." "I have urged Alitalia to set up new flights from Madrid and from Malaga to Rome. And they will start in the next few hours," he announced, specifying that Alitalia will also go from three to four flights a day from London. Plus a new flight from Bucharest from Friday.
But Di Maio also spoke of the doctors, including "some exceptions" that occurred in Naples with doctors who would take leave. These are "exceptions - he explained - which must be checked, verified and punished. But the vast majority of medical personnel are heroes". "If a doctor and a nurse can stay 24 hours without eating, we can stay at home. Our grandparents have been asked to go to war, we are asked to stay on the sofa," Di Maio reiterated. The M5S government official then announced that "another cargo flight will depart for China that will bring another 100 lung ventilators and at least another 2 million masks to Italy , partly already purchased by the Civil Protection and by the extraordinary commissioner for structures. hospital, partly donated ". While " from Germany over 1,500 medical suits are destined for hospitals in Lombardy".
As for the functioning of the Parliament, the leader of the League Matteo Salvini asks for "the immediate convocation of the Chambers", while the senator of Leu Pietro Grasso says that who at this moment talks about distance voting and special commissions reveals a reductive idea of Parliament "." Deputies and senators - underlines the former president of the Senate - are not only those who vote for the measures: they are called, representing the nation, to write and modify them through the presentation of amendments and discussion. Not everything can go unanimously, even in serious moments like this, and it is right to guarantee the debate and the confrontation between the positions ".
"Parliamentarians - insists Grasso who speaks of the need to set an example - are asked to do their part, with all the precautions required and necessary for each worker. Because democracy must not and cannot know exceptions".
Salvini therefore criticizes the government decree: "It is only a first step and it is not enough, it is unthinkable to make Italians pay taxes as of this Friday, it is unthinkable that 600 euros for the self-employed are sufficient and the prison-emptying is unacceptable. It is urgent to improve and change the decree also because the stock market has lost 300 billion in the last month. We would not want anyone to make arrangements in Brussels without the parliamentarians being involved and listened to ".
