National serological tests will start on 4 May on a sample of 150 thousand people. The extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri said this, underlining that the winning company will offer the tests free of charge. "This morning we concluded the race, 4 days ahead of time and only 9 days after the government's request," he added pointing out that 72 companies participated and the one that was chosen offers the "best solution existing today on the market".
"We have not yet won - added Arcuri - today is the feast of liberation but, everyone understands it, we have not yet freed ourselves from the virus, we have not yet reached April 25 in the war with this enemy. We have not conquered all our freedoms and normal components of life all of us. "
"On the contact tracing app, we achieved three results - Arcuri explained -: the infrastructure on which the Italian data will reside will be public and Italian, the app will respect all national and EU privacy rules. For subsequent steps it will become an instrument built around the health diary of will use it, will be not only alert but also for remote health policies. The infected and their close contacts will be able to talk with the national system remotely. I trust that many Italians will use it ".
"We are ready to distribute all the templates that will be used to manage phase 2, " said the Extraordinary Commissioner Domenico Arcuri, underlining that 138 million templates have been distributed at the moment and that the Regions currently have 47 million templates in the warehouses. Arcuri then announced that an agreement has been signed with 2 Italian companies to make 51 machines that will produce between 400 and 800 thousand masks per day. Machines that the state will buy. "We will soon be making at least 25 million masks a day."
"In the next few hours, we will set the maximum price at which the masks can be sold. We will do it both with reference to the price, both with reference to the price and with the related tax rate is the same. We distribute a sufficient number for the regions so that they put some aside a quota. We are also working to reduce imports to zero, "explained Arcuri.
Spallanzani, 114 hospitalized, 358 so far discharged - "There are 114 covid positive patients in total. Of these 20 patients need respiratory support". This is what emerges from today's medical bulletin of Spallanzani in Rome. "Further resignations of asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic patients are expected during the day - continues the bulletin - Patients discharged and transferred to home or to other territorial structures are 358 to this morning".
