Veneto recorded the highest number of victims for Covid in this second wave, 165 in just 24 hours, surpassing the 'black' day of December 10, when the deaths were 148. This is a number that could be affected by the loading late in deaths that occurred in the last weekend.
Yesterday there were 26 dead.
"In the next few hours, in these days, we will discuss with the Government, as Regions, to understand how to stem the risk of a third wave. Those who understand more than us from a scientific point of view say that it is inevitable, but the topic will not be l "inevitability or not, will be the strength of this third wave, that is, if it is too strong or, as we hope, if it will be light".
So Stefano Bonaccini.
"To do this, the contagion curves are studied daily" and in Italy the curve "has dropped overall" but "in a less robust way than could have been foreseen, also because there has not been a total lockdown like in March".
"2020 is not over yet, but a reasonable assessment suggests that this year we will cross the border of 700 thousand deaths overall, which is a worrying value because something like this last time, in Italy, had happened in 1944. We were in the midst of World War II ".
To illustrate the numbers from which the weight of the Covid pandemic is also deduced, was, during the Agorà broadcast on Rai Tre, the president of Istat Gian Carlo Blangiardo.
"In 2019 - he specifies - the figure was 647,000 dead".