A new national lockdown "is highly unlikely" . But local closures "can become inevitable if the situation gets out of hand, if control of the territory and the infected gets out of hand". And the risk exists, because "there is always a dance party or a barbecue to have, a funeral to celebrate". Thus the CTS coordinator, Agostino Miozzo, underlining that "400 cases a day are neither many nor few. They say that the virus exists and is present throughout the country . We are still in a manageable situation. But it is a precarious situation. the transition, the quantitative leap, can be very fast, this is the real risk ".
"The discos - Miozzo reiterates - must remain closed because, whatever people say, with thousands of young people crowded together there is nothing to do . Mass aggregations are devastating - he adds - impossible to manage". However, there are economic interests and thousands of workers to be protected. "We are perfectly aware - he says - and for this we need compensation. The worker in the sector must be protected as and perhaps even more than the others, because we are talking about a sector that is too risky".
Meanwhile, coronavirus infections are still rising and for the first time in weeks they exceed 500 in 24 hours : there are 523 new cases registered in one day, according to data from the Ministry of Health, while Wednesday they were 481 yesterday. Overall, 252,235 people have contracted the virus. On the other hand, the number of victims is decreasing: 6 more than on Wednesday, bringing the total to 35,225, while on Wednesday the increase was 10. Among the regions only Valle d'Aosta does not register new cases while the greatest increases are recorded in Veneto (+84), Lombardy (+74), Liguria (+63) and Sicily (+42).
CALABRIA - And immediately the governor of Calabria Santelli makes itself heard, who has signed an ordinance with which he orders the closure of all activities related to dancing, therefore ballrooms, discos and similar places such as bathing beaches, outdoors or indoors. The decision was made in order to contain the spread of the Covid 19 virus, reports a statement, "in agreement with the national government and after having talked with the ministers of health and regional affairs, Francesco Boccia and Roberto Speranza". The ban takes effect from the date of publication of this Ordinance and up to the end of September 7, 2020, or earlier if the contagion curve returns to a level compatible with a low risk of transmissibility of the infection ".
PUGLIA - "I think that the cases recorded between July and August" in Puglia "represent the trigger of a second wave. The same trigger that we simply did not detect in February and which then caused the great wave". The epidemiologist Pierluigi Lopalco, head of the Apulian regional task force for the Coronavirus emergency, writes on Facebook. According to Lopalco, however, "today's waves are those of a storm. If we are good at containing them, they probably won't develop the tsunami".