There are 160,000 positive swab people and people with symptoms are shrinking with the nationwide decline curve . The president of the Higher Institute of Health Silvio Brusaferro said it during the press conference at the Institute on the epidemiological trend of the Covid-19 epidemic. There is a strong reactivity - he underlined - in signaling and intervening early on new outbreaks. The data on the epidemic - he said - of new coronaviruses in Italy tell the "story of a country with different circulation levels" according to the regions.
The tests will allow you to live with the virus - he stressed - and in particular with the level of contagiousness R below 1.
The reopening phase - pointed out Brisaferro - will be done "with great caution", reaching contacts and monitoring the number of hospitalizations. "We will have to rethink and reorganize our organization of life both in transport and in work and daily activities".
There is no peak in the curve of the epidemic, however , highlighted the epidemiologist Giovanni Rezza: "it was an artificial peak", generated by the lockdown, said epidemiologist Giovanni Rezza, of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità ( Iss), in the press conference organized by the Institute.
In phase 2 it will be important to strengthen the control of the territory with the rapid identification of outbreaks, tests, tracing and isolation of contacts and containment actions and possible creation of red areas, is his invitation. The "red areas - he added - will once again become one of the important measures when there is no longer a lockdown in the country".
The new coronavirus tends to be contagious before symptoms appear and then contagiousness tends to decrease , said epidemiologist Giovanni Rezza, of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), in the press conference organized by the Institute. It is a new virus and behaves differently from the 2003 Sars coronavirus.
ISTAT DATA ON DEATHS - An "increase in deaths equal to or greater than 20 per cent in the period from 1 March to 4 April 2020 compared to the average figure for the same period in the years 2015-2019" was found by Istat in an update of the data "partial advances relating to a list of Municipalities which is expanded weekly and which in no way can be considered a representative sample of the entire Italian population". This is the third diffusion of these data relating to a selection of 1,689 municipalities. The greatest increase in deaths concerns men and people over 74 years of age . The differences between genders are particularly pronounced in the older residents of the North, in fact there is an increase in deaths for men of 158% compared to 105% for women, in the age group 75 and over.
THE VICTIMS AMONG THE WHITE COATS - Victims continue to register among the white coats and the number of pharmacists deceased with the diagnosis of Covid-19 rises to 10 . The last one is Camillo Alinovi from Varese Ligure, in the province of La Spezia. Federfarma makes it known in the online news newspaper Filodiretto. The 75-year-old man was hospitalized in intensive care in Sestri Levante. Around 800 pharmacists have so far been infected with coronavirus.
THE DEAD AMONG THE PRIESTS - The CEI Permanent Council, gathered by videoconference, recalled the role of priests in this moment of emergency and thanked them "for their being close to the people: many - more than 100 - offered their lives expressing once again the beautiful face of the friendly Church, which takes care of its neighbor. Caress, for all, is an exhortation to prayer, a true antidote to this time ". "The shadow of death seemed extended over our country, but it didn't have the last word."
TRACKING APP - Green light - meanwhile - by Commissioner Arcuri to the tracking app, necessary to start 'phase 2' to overcome the coronavirus emergency. Arcuri has signed the order with which it is disposed "to proceed with the stipulation of the contract for the free granting of the user license on the contact tracing software and the
free service contract with the company Bending Spoons Spa".
In the meantime, Roche announces that it has developed a serological test to detect the presence of antibodies to coronavirus in patients exposed to Covid-19 infection. The Swiss pharmaceutical company "aims" to make the test available in the "beginning of May" in the EU.