The second corona wave also hits Italy hard.
The Conte government decides to stricter Covid-19 protective measures.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Italy
: The number of
new corona infections
continues to rise dramatically.
The Italian government of
Giuseppe Conte
resolves tougher
Covid-19
* protective measures
.
Follow all developments regarding the
second Corona wave
*
in
Italy
here in the
news ticker
.
Update from November 11th, 3:27 pm:
"The forecasts are really dramatic.
Doctors across the country are already in dire straits.
We don't have any more time, we have to stop the further increase in the curve immediately, ”said the
President of
the Italian
Medical Association
,
Filippo Anelli
, to
tagesschau.de
.
It must be an end to the
regional patchwork
of the
fight against Covid-19
.
The massively growing number of
corona infections
from north to south
requires national measures, demand the doctors.
According to the report, the
strategy of
regional restrictions
by Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte
is being undermined by many regions because they do not want to be considered a
red zone
.
The
Campania
region
with its capital
Naples
is given as a
negative example
.
Despite the
second highest number of infections
in the country, it is still officially a
low-risk area
.
Among other things, because those responsible for the region recently reported a
tripling of their available intensive care beds
, around 1,300, within one day to
Rome
.
Campania has
thus been
spared
the threatening classification as a
red zone
, although several media reports about the
chaotic conditions
in the
clinics
.
Regional
President Vincenzo de Luca
said on Twitter: “Campania is the victim of media aggression.
There are also some bastards among the local managers who are moving around these days
to talk
badly about
Naples
and
Campania
. "
Continua la campagna di aggressione mediatica contro la Campania.
C'è da rimanere esterrefatti di fronte alle parole e alle tesi campate in aria ascoltate da vari interlocutori nella trasmissione Cartabianca.
Di fronte a queste falsità non resta che la querela per diffamazione.
- Vincenzo De Luca (@VincenzoDeLuca) November 10, 2020
The
Tuscany
,
Liguria
,
Umbria
, the
Abruzzo
and
Basilicata
are considered so-called since midnight
orange zones
.
This means, among other things, that all bars and restaurants there must close.
Lombardy
and
Piedmont have been
red zones
since last week
.
There are strict
exit restrictions
.
As reported by the newspaper
La Repubblica
, Prime Minister
Conte
wants to take
stock this weekend in order to possibly correct his regional strategy.
Corona in Italy: Almost 600 deaths in just one day
Update from November 10th, 10.15 p.m.:
Italy
again has many
corona fatalities
to complain about.
With
almost 600 deaths
in connection with
Covid-19
, the highest value within 24 hours in half a year was recorded on Tuesday.
Specifically, the health authorities
stated that they
reported
580 Covid 19 victims
.
A total of 42,330 people have died of or with the virus disease in the country with its around 60 million inhabitants since February.
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Milan: A health care worker in protective suit works at a checkpoint that was set up after the increase in the number of corona cases.
© Antonio Calanni / dpa
Coronavirus pandemic: "Italy is the first EU country to ban Christmas with the extended family"
Update from November 10th, 8:15 p.m.:
In
Italy
, the family has always held a high position.
Generations live under one roof, the focus is on togetherness.
But the same
Italy
now apparently has to prepare
for a completely different
Christmas
in the
coronavirus pandemic
.
“Families will only be able to meet in the closest circle, first-degree relatives, siblings.
Italy
is the first EU country to
ban
Christmas
with the extended family, "said health
politician Sandra Zampa
in an interview with the daily
La Stampa (Tuesday edition)
:" Most of the current
anti-Covid measures
should also remain in force over the Christmas holidays. "
Within the Conte government, Zampa is significantly involved in the country's corona policy as an undersecretary in the Ministry of Health.
““ This epidemic must be tackled with the utmost common sense.
If there is no turnaround, no health system in the world can withstand the pressure of the epidemic, ”said the 64-year-old.
Corona pandemic in Italy: aid funds over 5.4 billion euros - and new debts
Update from November 10th, 6.30 p.m.:
Once the
Italian economy has
to
cope with
the effects of a
corona lockdown
.
At the end of October, the government of
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte decided on
a new aid package worth 5.4 billion euros, the first money should therefore flow as unbureaucratically as possible in mid-November.
Striking: The financial resources are new debt.
The effects on the grassroots are, however, sometimes drastic.
Recently, for example, taxi drivers protested against the night curfew.
And
tourism also
comes to a standstill once more.
"In November you will
not go skiing
in
Italy
," said the Italian Minister of Sports, Vincenzo Spadafora.
This affects the
Trentino-South Tyrol region
with the
Dolomites holiday region
.
The lifts in well-known
ski resorts such as Cortina d'Ampezzo
(Instagram photo below) are temporarily closed for recreational athletes.
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Corona pandemic in Italy: government secures 1.7 million vaccine doses for January
Update from November 10th, 4 p.m .:
The pharmaceutical companies
Biontech
and
Pfizer
have apparently developed an effective
corona vaccine *
- and went public with this news on Monday (November 9th).
A
secret plan has now leaked
from
Italy
: As reported by the renowned daily
La Repubblica
, the Italian Ministry of Health has secured
around 1.7 million doses of
vaccine against Covid-19
for the second half of January 2021
in top secret negotiations with
Pfizer
.
In a video conference, the
Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza
discussed
the logistical and technical implementation of the
vaccine deal
with the company, the report says.
According to this,
doctors and nurses
as well as other employees from the
Italian
health service
are to be vaccinated
with this number of
vaccine doses
.
A comparison: According to media reports, the federal government of Germany is planning nationwide
vaccinations against the corona virus
from March.
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Rome: Roberto Speranza (l), Italian Minister of Health, speaks with representatives of the EU, with Hans Kluge, Head of the World Health Organization Region Europe, during the coronavirus summit.
© Roberto Monaldo / dpa
Corona pandemic in Italy: will the Campania region soon also be classified in red?
Update from November 10th, 3 p.m.:
In the second Corona wave,
Italy
, like other countries, switched to a warning system based on a traffic light.
This is intended to better limit regional focal points in the Mediterranean country as well.
One of the 20 regions on the south west coast is
Campania
with the metropolis of
Naples
and the picturesque tourist places of the
Amalfi Coast
such as Positano or Ravello.
Because of the increasing number of infections, Campania should now be upgraded at least from yellow to orange, the cities of Naples (almost 1 million inhabitants) and Caserta (about 75,000 inhabitants) could even be upgraded to red and thus the highest warning level.
This is reported by the daily
La Repubblica
.
🔴 # COVID19 - La situazione in Italia al 9 novembre: https://t.co/8ciMmO9yfx pic.twitter.com/FiS7Rwt3fT
- Ministero della Salute (@MinisteroSalute) November 9, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic: Corona situation in Italy is coming to a head
Update from November 10th, 12 noon:
The
corona situation in Italy
is getting worse.
In some parts of the country
stricter restrictions
are now to be
imposed.
The region of
Liguria
in the northwest and
Abruzzo
in central Italy are to be declared orange zones on Wednesday.
The presidents there announced on Twitter.
The
Tuscany
should, according to the Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, are orange.
The
Ansa
news
agency also
named
Basilicata
and
Umbria
as other candidates.
Italy
is divided into three
corona zones
: The strictest measures apply in the red zones.
Orange is the middle, yellow is the lowest.
In orange areas, restaurants and bars must be closed all day.
It is also forbidden to move between different regions and municipalities.
Exceptions apply to driving to work or traveling for health reasons.
The
experts of the Ministry of Health
are for even
more stringent restrictions
.
"The epidemiological situation continues to deteriorate in our country," said expert Giovanni Rezza.
On Monday, the health authorities reported almost
25,300 new corona infections
and
356 deaths
within one day.
The number of new infections is often lower on Mondays due to fewer test capacities at the weekend.
On Saturday, the authorities had reported just over 39,800 cases.
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Milan: Police officers stand in front of the Milan Cathedral and wear mouth and nose protection.
© Matteo Biatta / dpa
Corona in Italy: Doctors boss calls for "total lockdown" of the country and fears "ten thousand deaths"
Update from November 9th, 2 p.m.: Italy
is deeply in the
second Corona wave
, figuratively speaking, and doctors and nurses are sounding the alarm with a view to hospital capacities.
"We expect hospital stays and intensive care to double next week if the trend doesn't change," said Alessandro Vergallo, president of the Association of Anesthetists of Hospital Resuscitation Doctors (Aaroi) of the daily
La Republicca
.
The
intensive care units are
already under pressure, which is why the “proposal for national isolation is sensible”.
Update from November 9th, 12 noon:
Based on the numbers, the worries in
Italy
about the
corona
virus can be figured out.
The Ministry of Health in
Rome
has now developed its own digital dashboard that
illustrates
the
corona situation
between
Milan
and
Bari,
between
Palermo
and
Naples
.
Accordingly, the following
Covid-19 situation appeared
in Italy
on Sunday, November 8th
:
Corona cases in Italy | People / people |
currently positively infected with Corona | 558,636 |
Corona deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic | 41,394 |
Sick of Covid-19 and meanwhile healed | 335.074 |
Total corona cases since the outbreak of the pandemic | 935.104 |
🔴 # COVID19 - La situazione in Italia all'8 novembre: https://t.co/8ciMmO9yfx pic.twitter.com/NJWT0MoxER
- Ministero della Salute (@MinisteroSalute) November 8, 2020
Corona pandemic in Italy: The Covid 19 situation was still under control in midsummer
First report from November 9th
: Munich / Rome -
Italy
was the ultimate memorial in the first big wave of the
coronavirus pandemic
*
.
The pictures from
Bergamo
with military convoys transporting corpses have burned themselves into the collective memory.
After the Mediterranean country had the infection rate largely under control in midsummer, the
Repubblica Italiana
also has
to fight
hard with the
Corona situation
*
in autumn
.
Coronavirus pandemic: Italy is struggling with the second corona wave
Since the beginning of November, a so-called gentle lockdown including night curfew has been in effect in the country with 60 million inhabitants.
Is that enough to press the numbers?
No, says a doctor chief and calls for far more drastic measures to contain the
insidious lung disease
.
"Over the past week we have recorded an average of a thousand hospital stays and over three hundred deaths a day,"
Filippo Anelli
, president of the Federation of Medical Orders,
told
La Repubblica
daily
.
Anelli said, “If the trend stays the same, we will have
ten thousand more deaths
and five thousand patients in the intensive care unit.
We need drastic measures immediately, such as a
total lockdown
”.
Corona pandemic in Italy: Doctors boss makes a drastic demand because of Covid-19
The doctor's boss was concerned and confirmed with a view to
Corona
*
: "Total lockdown now, or we will have 10,000 more deaths in a month."
Follow all
developments on the corona pandemic
in
Italy
here in the
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* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network