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Ricciardi: 'Lockdown necessary for Naples and Milan'

2020-10-27T16:12:04.309Z


'In these cities you can catch the virus even in bars'. The president of the Lombardy Region Fontana excludes him. Alert of the head of the COVID-19 Coordination for the Lombard emergency departments Guido Bertolini 'the only thing that can be done is a national lockdown, the emergency room situation is dramatic everywhere'. Iss, 'it is estimated that over 80% of those who contract the infection are asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic' (ANSA)


'In Milan and Naples one can take Covid by entering the bar, the restaurant, taking the bus

.

Being in close contact with a positive is very easy because the virus circulates a lot.

In these areas the lockdown is necessary, in other areas of the country it is not

.

Walter

Ricciardi

, advisor to the Minister of Health, returns to ask for targeted lockdowns in the areas where the virus circulates the most, because 'there are areas of the country where transmission is exponential and the latest restrictions adopted, which can be effective in the rest of the country. territory, in those areas they are not enough to stop the infection '.

On

Matteo Renzi's

criticisms of

the closure of cinemas and theaters, foreseen in the last Dpcm, Ricciardi replies: "If you are in Milan it is a place where you can also take it to the cinema. In other cities the situation is not the same. Milan and Naples is unthinkable any activity that involves the approach of people in closed spaces ".

In fact, he added, we find ourselves in the presence of "thousands of asymptomatic subjects who return home, where you don't wear a mask, you kiss and hug". 

Guido Bertolini,

head of the COVID-19 Coordination for the Lombard emergency room departments,

also returned to the topic of a possible lockdown 

.

For Bertolini "at this point, with an exponential growth curve of infections,

the only thing that can be done is to close everything, a lockdown at the national level

. The situation in the emergency room is dramatic, not only in Lombardy, but everywhere nationally ".

"I

exclude that there are the conditions to foresee hypotheses of this kind, indeed, all our interventions go in the direction of avoiding any type of lockdown

".

This is what the governor

Attilio Fontana

remarked

, on the sidelines of the presentation of the exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the Lombardy Region organized in collaboration with ANSA at Palazzo Pirelli.

This afternoon Fontana will have a new meeting with the mayors of the Lombard provincial capitals and the majority and opposition group leaders for an update on the epidemiological situation.

The latest regional anti-Covid limitations will be "reaffirmed" in a new ordinance expected today, necessary to align the one currently in force with the new Dpcm at a technical level.

It is likely that

"over 80% of all those who contract the infection are asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic"

.

Flavia Riccardo affirms this to ANSA.

of the Higher Institute of Health, underlining at the same time that the number of asymptomatic positive sarsCov2 subjects is growing compared to the initial months of the epidemic: they are 56.5% of the total molecular tests carried out in the period 20 July-20 October.

The percentage was instead equal to 15.1% in the first three months of the epidemic (20 February - 20 May).

The data can be seen from the latest ISS report on the Covid epidemic updated on 20 October.

The increase is due to the greater number of swabs carried out on contacts and for screening activities since the beginning of the pandemic.


Source: ansa

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