"It seems to me that all of Italy, except Sardinia, is approaching with long strides towards the red zone. Lombardy, for what it has been through in recent months, is more vulnerable than other regions, but I am not worried about this region . more than for others It is out of the question that we need to vaccinate. We can do much more than what we are already doing with respect to this situation. We have to go to Brussels to beat our fists ".
This was stated by
Guido Bertolaso
, consultant to the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana for the Vaccinal Plan, speaking at a press conference at Palazzo Pirelli.
"The contagion started much faster than before due to the variations. If this growth, which took place in 10-15 days, does not find an acceleration in the response, we risk being overwhelmed. We like other parts of Italy".
Thus the president of Emilia-Romagna
Stefano Bonaccini,
saying that the English variant "almost seems to be a new virus in terms of diffusion and age categories".
"We must contrast and limit the contagion with more restrictive measures based on indications that the regional health system gives us. Without measures the curve would continue to grow. Compared to the previous times, the limitations of the classic orange zone are no longer enough, due to how the virus runs rapidly. We must tighten today and do it now to wish us not to do it again later.
So Bonaccini, taking stock of the red areas. "" These are difficult decisions, I take all the responsibility for them.
We must act now for a danger that has raised its head with the variants ".
" The numbers of the pre report will arrive tonight.
The values on both intensive and ordinary therapies are still below the threshold, although recording an increase.
So, although the alarm lights have not yet come on, we have a situation that tells us that every day things are getting worse.
For this reason, as we have started to do with the red zones and we will do again in the next few days, we must be ready to intervene surgically where necessary ". To say this, on the hypothesis of a Piedmont in the red zone, the president of the Region
Alberto Cirio
." We are facing data that we have been monitoring for weeks now - he observes -, for which the health system has prepared itself.
Today, however, we must also know how to take the necessary containment decisions. "What is worrying, the Piedmontese governor reiterates, is the English variant:" By now half of the cases in Piedmont - he remembers - are from the English variant, which runs more, is faster and therefore asks you to anticipate more the measures that you would have adopted with another timing, speaking of 'traditional' Covid.
For this - concludes Cirio - I asked for daily monitoring and every two days we take stock, ready to intervene with regional ordinances or measures, such as the red zones set up in these days that are the implementation of this monitoring ".