13.40 - The people sanctioned yesterday by the police for the travel bans were 9,284 while on the previous day there were 8,187. This is what emerges from the data of the Interior Ministry. 54 complaints were filed for false claims in the self-declaration yesterday, and those reported for violation of the quarantine 10. 173 business owners were sanctioned and 27 were the measures to close the businesses. Since the beginning of the prescriptions, more than 182 thousand have been reported. In 10 days, 394 were violated.
13.22 - The deaths caused by coronavirus in the world have exceeded 65,000: this is what emerges from the latest bulletin of Johns Hopkins University. Specifically, the deaths are now 65,652 out of a total of 1,213,927 cases globally, while the people recovered are 252,391.
12.52 pm - The Pandemic Covid-19 will also weigh on new births, in particular on those with assisted fertilization, whose treatments are, in this period, suspended. It is estimated that in the quarter March-May the reproductive cycles not carried out will lead to approximately 4,500 fewer births. This was the estimate made at ANSA by the gynecologist Antonino Guglielmino, president of the Italian Society of Human Reproduction (SIRU). In Italy 97,888 assisted reproductive treatments are performed in a year on 78,366 couples, with the birth of 13,973 children. "Maintaining these numbers - explains Guglielmino - seems very difficult given the prolongation of the pandemic in the spring period, the most popular to access the treatments". If the suspension lasts at least until May, it is a minimum of three months of detention, which equates to 30,000-35,000 assisted reproductive cycles that will not be carried out, with an estimated loss of at least 4,000-4,500 children who would have been born. "
11.43 am - "Today, in the drama of the pandemic, in the face of so many certainties that crumble, in the face of so many betrayed expectations, in the sense of abandonment that holds our hearts, Jesus says to each one: 'Courage: open your heart to mine love. You will feel the consolation of God, who sustains you '". The Pope said so in the homily of the Palm Sunday mass .
10.58 - "From today to go out on the street we have to wear a mask or, at the limit, a scarf or a scarf. Let me say that it is a bit confusing to receive this provision from the Lombardy Region and to hear Borrelli, the head of the Civil Protection person who I respect, say 'I will not put it on and I will keep my distance' ". So the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, commented on the order of the Region that establishes the obligation for citizens to use masks, or in any case to cover the mouth and nose, when leaving the house. "But I want to remain faithful to what I said from the beginning and that is the ordinances, the directives must be applied and not discussed so I can only tell you we apply this ordinance of the Lombardy Region", he concluded in the daily video on social media.
9.49 am - With the data on the contagion from Coronavirus in Lombardy "we are in the plains and we must tighten the bolts to begin the descent": thus began the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana to speak to Radio Padania of his ordinance that provides for the use of mask or in any case a protection on the mouth and nose to leave the house . "It is an initiative that I decided to do both after reading what they do in other foreign countries and talking to our scientists like Pesenti. Of course - he added - the masks solve the problem 100%, the scarves at 30-40 % "but" rather than nothing is better rather "concluded in dialect.
8.34 am - Two unauthorized fundraisers unknown to the beneficiary body in favor of the intensive care of the Spallanzani Hospital and the San Camillo in Rome have been exposed by the Postal Police. The web pages have been blacked out and two people have been investigated, a pensioner and his daughter. The virtual bank account on which they asked for donations to flow has been confiscated.
7.21 am - Coronavirus cases in the world have exceeded 1.2 million, while the death toll quickly approaches the 65,000 threshold: Johns Hopkins University reports. In its latest bulletin the American university specifies that the infections are now 1,203,099, the deaths 64,774 and the number of the healed 246,893.