In early February, the Italian statistical institute, Istat, published a shocking study: over the first ten months of 2020, births in fifteen major Italian cities fell by 5.2%.
In November, by 8.2%.
And in December, nine months after the first month of confinement, 21.6%.
While the decline has been around 3 to 4% per year since 2010, is Italy heading for a real births crash?
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The owners of the large maternity hospitals in Rome are more cautious:
“We had more births than the previous year,”
says Doctor Antonio Ragusa, director of obstetrics at Fatebenefratelli, on the island of Tiberina in Rome.
An institute specializing in high-risk pregnancies.
It does not rule out, however, that large hospitals in large cities attract more expectant mothers than small, less well-equipped units in the provinces.
Many lower-income couples expect better days
Gianluca Terrin, professor at Policlinico Umberto 1 in Rome
At the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, which has organized itself to welcome pregnant women with Covid, there are
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