" In all regions the cases are decreasing but the differences between the regions that substantially divide the country into three areas remain . Even in Lombardy there is a daily decrease in cases". Silvio Brusaferro, the President of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), told the weekly press conference at ISS on the progress of the Covid-19 epidemic .
" The epidemic curve is stable and decreasing . Now the more we are going towards a limited number of cases, the more sensitive the system will be to detecting cases immediately. The share of asymptomatics is growing".
There is a great oscillation of the contagion index Rt on the territory. But Rt is not a report card but a dynamic tool that helps us understand what happens and should be read with other data, explained Brusaferro. The contagion index Rt is reported below 1 in all Italian regions except in Val d'Aosta, where a value of 1.06 is recorded. The data emerges from the weekly monitoring report on phase 2, illustrated during the press conference at the Istituto di Sanita. For the Val d'Aosta the index is considered a momentary oscillation while Lombardy is decreasing.
"Italy is multi-speed but we have no signs of overloading hospital services, both as regards intensive care and as regards wards. The goal is to avoid the re-start of epidemic curves knowing that there will be episodes of regrowth of cases in the territories ".
Today the virus still circulates and we cannot relax individual protection measures, said the president of the ISS. However, the small peak in Molise and Umbria quickly returned, he concluded.
The monitoring system is not a judgment or report card for the regions but is an instrument. The data we have today are good data but data that give us the guarantee of the regions' ability to intervene. Right now, said Brusaferro, everyone's collaboration is needed.
"We cannot rule out an increase in the coming weeks - said President Silvio Brusaferro - but it is not a weekly report of the regions. But we can walk with confidence knowing that there may be times of increase in cases but also knowing that we have a system able to intercept them ".
The issue of "mobility between the Regions must be addressed with an even smaller number of new cases than we have," said the president of the ISS. On the other hand, the index of contagions Rt "changes on a weekly basis and I would exclude it as a criterion in this regard for displacements. But also the methods of movement are important, that is, how you move", he specified.
"Keeping the identification attention of outbreaks constantly high even during the summer." In this sense "overall it seems to me that the resilience of the Regions is increasing", added the new director general of the Ministry of Health's Prevention, Gianni Rezza at the ISS press conference. Rezza pointed out that from phase 1 to phase 2, individual responsibility and public responsibility are capable of detecting small alarm signals.
"The monitoring data are currently encouraging . They tell us that the country has held up well with the first openings of May 4. But woe to think that the game is won . Maximum caution is needed. It takes little to nullify the sacrifices made so far," he said. commented the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza .
"I am not a technician but I understand that this mechanism just does not work - said the president of the Umbria Region, Donatella Tesei , interviewed on Radio 24 on the controversy linked to the Rt index -. It is a truly aberrant thing because it has about the real numbers which instead tell us that we are the best Italian region right now. This news is absolutely creating damage to a region that has already started up and is safe ". For Umbria, the Rt index for the Covid 19 epidemic has dropped to 0.53 according to data released by the Higher Institute of Health. A value that places the region among those considered to be "low risk" for the spread of the virus and therefore safe. The data - as ascertained by ANSA - is contained in the weekly report dedicated by the ISS to the trend of the pandemic. During the press conference to illustrate the data, the president of the Silvio Brusaferro Institute highlighted how the small boy registered in Umbria in recent weeks has quickly returned.
The general director of the Italian Medicines Agency, Nicola Magrini , also spoke at the press conference , who, with regard to hydroxychloroquine , said: "We know little about efficacy, about possible damage and lack of safety in some limited subgroups of patients in we're pretty sure. "
"There are more promising vaccines, 5-6 at an advanced stage, and Italy also participates in different ways. In my opinion, the reasonable time to think about a vaccine is spring, next summer, I don't think there will be any vaccine for September available - explained the managing director of AIFA -, while counting very good results, as the phase 1 studies seem. We hope next year and we hope that there will be more than one and that the production capacities are adequate ".
