"The peak has suddenly increased we are surprised but not unprepared. Control controversy? Maybe there was some flaw, but only in the first few days“, So the premier Giuseppe Conte, yesterday interviewed by Mara Venier live on Rai Uno.
"We are not unprepared, my surprise is due to the fact that there was a peak from one day to the next. We have always worked towards a potential spread, we don't improvise anything and we have plans. There is no reason not to think about a constant food supply ", adds Conte, admitting that perhaps in the first days there was some flaw, but we also have land borders, impossible to control them all. "This is a national emergency. The plans can be effective in small towns, but we cannot apply them to Milan for example".
"In Italy there are more diagnoses than elsewhere because we were the only ones to do mass checks with swabs. And of course, the more you do with it, the more chance you have of finding new cases".
To confirm the thesis the Italian virologist of the University of Florida Ilaria Capua"Italy is experiencing a more critical situation because it is looking for cases more actively than others ”.
According to data provided by the government, about 400 swabs were carried out in France, over 4 thousand in Italy. A thousand alone in the Schiavonia hospital, a structure at the center of the Venetian outbreak. Fortunately, all negative, according to the prefecture of Padua. A measure that of mass swabs that could also be followed by other EU countries. The suspicion is that in the other EU countries the virus is spreading subtly and that sooner or later it will explode, dramatically increasing the cases of contagion. Many criticisms raised by journalists and the opposition, Salvini in the lead, on the fact that the government has blocked air traffic to and from China without interrupting connections with other intermediate airports. It is possible, in fact, that the much sought after “0” patient arrived in Italy through intermediate stops in Europe. Conte on the fact of locking up the country, for the moment, continues to reiterate that he considers the suspension of the Schengen Treaty "draconian". This is strongly proposed by the opposition, Fratelli d'Italia, Lega and Forza Italia who also ask to give the Chamber absolute priority to the decree on the coronavirus which provides for an initial allocation of 20 million euros which was signed yesterday by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and therefore is already in force.
Conte heard Silvio Berlusconi on the phone. It is not excluded that the government adopts the idea of Fi, pushed in Brussels by Antonio Tajani, to make a questionnaire on the latest journeys of all incoming travelers mandatory. In the name of political relaxation, the Prime Minister has guaranteed that there will be a meeting with all the group leaders and he has also tried to contact Matteo Salvini"But he didn't answer me on any of the numbers I have available ”.
The situation of the virus in Italy
In the meantime the deaths rise to 4 with more than 150 cases of infections: 116 cases of contagion in Lombardy (including 2 deaths), with three positives in Milan - one of which is a dermatologist at the Polyclinic treated at the Sacco - but there is concern for an employee of the Unicredit office, subjected to analysis in the same hospital, where exams are underway on 36 people - 49 in Lodi and its province, 14 in Cremona, six in Pavia, three in Bergamo, one in Sondrio and one in Monza. The list also includes the three infected, belonging to the same family, brought back by ambulance to Lombardy from a holiday in Trentino. There is concern even if the provincial health services agency of Trento has begun a series of investigations to reconstruct the family's movements: it would not have had many contacts and would have spent most of the stay in a rented apartment. Then twenty-five cases in Veneto (including one death), with 19 infected in Vo 'Euganeo, 3 in Dolo, 3 in Venice, one of which in Mira. Nine in Emilia Romagna, all hospitalized in Piacenza, and 3 in Piedmont, in Turin, while the tests on three Chinese from Cuneo were negative. These numbers do not include the patients treated at the Spallanzani in Rome, the couple of Chinese tourists - he recovered but under observation, and his wife always in intensive care improving - and the Emilian researcher returned from Wuhan, also healthy and discharged. The results of 23 people are expected from Spallanzani, including a young couple from Neptune, who returned from Lombardy.
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