In Italy, the corona virus has caused a devastating situation. The number of deaths and infected people is increasing. The developments in the news ticker.
- The Coronavirus * pandemic has hit Italy particularly hard.
- The number of official deaths from Covid-19 lung disease continues to rise.
- The curfew * in Italy has been in effect since March 9.
- Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.
Rome - The situation in Italy remains devastating due to the Corona virus. Although there has recently been talk of a slight decrease in new infections, the numbers are rising again.
In Italy, more than 80,000 people are infected with the disease. According to John Hopkins University (as of March 27), 8,215 people have died from the effects of the coronavirus .
While doubts about the number of cases in Italy are increasing, a new theory about the outbreak of the coronavirus * is now coming to the public.
Corona: Did the virus appear in Italy in the last quarter of 2019?
Adriano Decarli, an epidemiologist from the University of Milan told Reuters, that there was a significantly higher number of flu and pneumonia infections in Lombardy in the third quarter of 2019.
Decarli did not give exact numbers, but indicated that there were hundreds more cases than usual. "We want to know whether the virus was already in Italy at the end of 2019 and - if so - why it remained undetected for a relatively long period of time," said the epidemiologist.
If the theory is actually correct, all previous figures on infected people and deaths * would literally have to be thrown out of the box, as focus.de reports. The question of “patient zero” * remains unanswered. Meanwhile, a heartbreaking video from Italy's restricted areas went around the world.
Corona in Italy: is the EU the cause of the devastating situation?
Meanwhile, hospitals and medical staff are reaching their limits in Corona times . The clinics are overcrowded. More and more people are becoming infected with the virus . What role does the EU play in this?
The fact is: in 2011 Italy experienced a drastic wave of cuts - imposed by the European Central Bank (ECB) - which also affected the healthcare system . The ECB said in a letter that protection against rising interest rates on Italian government bonds would only be granted on condition of severe cuts. The result: the Italian government made the cuts and the number of hospitals in the country fell by 15 percent, as freitag.de mentioned in a report. 15 percent that the Italian healthcare system currently lacks.
Coronavirus: Are Healthcare Spending Cuts Fatal?
Even in the crisis of the euro zone that followed the financial crash of 2007 and 2008 , the ECB and the EU Commission literally moved mountains to save banks and financial players. However, public spending on social issues was largely ignored, which affected health systems in particular.
Is Europe now doomed to spending cuts and efforts to curb the increase in health spending?
* merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
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