After trying, unsuccessfully, to postpone the opening of schools, now the pressure of the Regions moves to the bulletin that records the positives and to the need to review the classification parameters of hospital admissions. The reason is simple: the governors are afraid of ending up in orange, a range in which restrictions increase especially for no vaxes - they cannot leave the municipality of residence except for work, health and urgency - and in which one enters with the occupancy of intensive care at 20% and that of Covid departments at 30%.
The risk for many regions is concrete and
already in the next few hours three regions, Calabria, Piedmont and Sicily, could change bands
. This is confirmed by the map of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc) in which Italy is all in dark red and the analysis of Gimbe confirms it.
The huge amount of cases - 1.2 million in 7 days - "encountering too large a susceptible population, is progressively saturating the hospitals. And, consequently, many regions are heading towards the orange zone by the end of the month".
The control room will meet in the next few hours and only after the technicians have analyzed the numbers will the health minister Roberto Speranza sign the ordinances.
According to the data of Agenas, Calabria, which has the intensive at 20% and the ordinary departments at 38%, the Piedmont, respectively 23% and 33%, and Sicily, which has resuscitations, could already go orange from Monday. at 20% and Covid departments at 33%. But
if the trend does not reverse, the next few weeks will see another 10 regions change color: Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Marche, the province of Trento, Tuscany and Veneto have exceeded the 20% threshold in the intensive while Liguria, Umbria Lombardia, and Valle d 'Aosta are already over 30% of employment in the Covid departments.
For this reason, the regional presidents are evaluating the possibility of sending a letter to the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health to ask to consider Covid cases only the symptomatic ones in the count of hospitalized positives and to exclude those who also have other pathologies.
A ploy, therefore, that would allow to reduce the number of people present in the Covid wards and in intensive care.
The Undersecretary of Health
Andrea Costa
is also in favor of a change in the bulletins. "Communicating the number of infected people every day I don't know how useful it can be, we have to think about the hospital data. Also because if the goal is to reach an endemic situation, we could have 500 thousand infections a day, but this is not the problem. are the hospitalizations in intensive care ". However, not everyone agrees. "We do not need to 'avoid' orange or the play of colors - underlines the president of Tuscany
Eugenio Giani
- We do our job correctly and therefore any purpose is the purpose of public health".
At Palazzo Chigi, meanwhile, work is underway on the Dpcm which will have to define, in view of January 20, which are the activities and services that can be accessed even without the green pass, as required by the decree of January 7, those "necessary to ensure the satisfaction of essential and primary needs of the person "reads the text. It will certainly be possible to shop at the supermarket, go to the pharmacy, to the hospital, to the general practitioner, to the veterinarian. And again, go to report a crime or for urgent needs for the protection of minors, to go to court to testify. The debate in the government on this front, however, is still open: the draft developed by the Ministry of Public Administration would provide for a limited number of exceptions guided by the criterion ofurgency but the Ministry of Economic Development is pushing for a broader list that also includes tobacconists, newsstands, bookstores, toy shops.
