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With a record of 40,000 infections in a day, Italy is unable to stop the uncontrolled advance of the coronavirus

2020-11-05T20:47:47.482Z


In many regions there are protests against the new quarantines. In some areas they reverted to April and May restrictions.


Julio Algañaraz

11/05/2020 2:33 PM

  • Clarín.com

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Updated 11/05/2020 2:33 PM

With a new alarming jump in the number of infected and deceased, Italy this Thursday exceeded 40 thousand deaths (40,209) due to the coronavirus epidemic, in which 34,505 infected and 445 deaths were registered in one day, amid fierce controversies between the government and the governors of the twenty regions, who

rebel against the

selective

quarantines

implemented since this Friday along with a national

curfew from 10 p.m.

to 5 a.m., to contain the overwhelming level and the speed of expansion of the pandemic .

The second wave is advancing to

an average of 30 thousand cases per day

, multiplied in a single month, with a growing share of deaths and of admitted to hospitals, especially in critical special intensive care beds.

This Thursday the absolute record was registered since the pandemic began on February 21.

The measures will last at least one month

and contemplate a division of the country into three areas according to the level of severity of the coronavirus punishment in each region.

In the red area, reserved for the worst situations, there are Lombardy and Piedmont, the two most important regions of the industrial north, together with the small alpine region of Valle d'Aosta and Calabria, in the south, chosen for the weakness of their hospital structures .

In the regions included in the red area, it becomes like in the first quarantine, which was in force between March 10 and May 10, to the

obligation to stay at home

, leave home only for reasons of work or domestic purchases , and if it is necessary to show a certification of why the home is left for other valid reasons.

An empty bar in the center of Rome.

The new restrictions against the coronavirus force to close shops and gastronomic places.

Photo: AFP

Moving from one region to another is also prohibited.

Bars, restaurants, and many businesses must be closed, as should cinemas, theaters, and theater venues.

Hairdressers are allowed to continue working and shopping centers must close on weekends.

You can only go for a walk close to home, using the mandatory mask, or do physical activity keeping a meter away from other people.

Considered with less risk thanks to a curve of 21 points elaborated with algorithms, especially the RT or contagion index, the regions of Puglia (Bari) and Sicilia (Palermo) are in the orange area.

Although there were also protests against quarantine there, they face less harsh restrictions than the "red" regions.

For example, bars and restaurants may open until 6 p.m.

Row to enter and signs asking to wear a mask and keep your distance, in a supermarket in Turin, Italy, this Thursday.

Photo: EFE

The rest of the twenty regions are in the yellow area, such as Lazio (Rome), Liguria (Genoa), Campania (Naples), Tuscany (Florence).

In this area there are fewer restrictions, although museums will also have to remain closed.

There will be more freedom of movement than in the red and orange areas.

The governor of Sicily, Nello Mussumeci, protested the "privilege" given to Campania in the best area despite the fact that on Monday it registered 4,000 infected, while Sicily has better data but was condemned to the "yellow" of medium-high risk.

Other regional governments recalled that the president of Campania, Vincenzo de Luca, had closed the schools and formally requested a total quarantine throughout the country "given the seriousness of the situation."

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Concern for the north of the country

The measures confirmed

that secondary school students study from their homes over the Internet

through the DAD (Distance Learning) system in order to alleviate the means of public transport, which from this Friday will not be able to circulate throughout the country with more than the half its capacity.

General attention is concentrated in the large northern regions.

The government reported that the red area, which includes Lombardy and Piedmont, with its metropolitan areas of Milan and Turin,

will affect 17 of the 60 million inhabitants of the country

.

The president of the Lombard region, the worst hit since the beginning of the pandemic, in February, Attilio Fontana, protested and said that he was studying to challenge the government's decisions, whose data that justify the different categories, "were made with old numbers" .

Fontana claimed that the decision had "slapped" the Lombards.

He also stressed that the regional situation is very different, since provinces such as Bergamo and Brescia, which suffered thousands of fatalities in the first wave of the pandemic, now register low levels of infected and dead.

A line of ambulances in front of a hospital in Partinico, in Palermo, Italy.

They reinforce the number of intensive care beds throughout the country.

Photo: EFE

Lombardy and Piedmont are the two largest industrial regions, with living standards closer to Germany than the rest of Italy.

Fontana said that the government's decision

notably damages the prestige and economic situation of Lombardy.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte reported that the location of each region in the planned preventive quarantine areas may change if the curves of the epidemic indicators are modified.

Professor Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases, considered the highest level in Italy, said that everyone must follow the situation realistically "because we will have to do the math with the epidemic throughout 2021."

“If the trend of infections is not stabilized, any effort will be useless.

It is necessary to reduce the circulation of the virus to ensure that the health system can respond to the emergency, especially in intensive therapies, "reflected Ippolito.

There are currently 1,746 critically ill patients intubated for oxygen because the coronavirus causes a potentially fatal infection in the lungs.

The availability that was 5,179 positions has reached 8,929 and the government affirms that it will soon reach almost 11 thousand.

But some regions are under

strong pressure

, which increases the need to quarantine the population to reduce the speed of transmission of the virus and, therefore, infections.

Rome, correspondent

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