(by Andrea Pinto) A few months ago, before the virus took over all of humanity, its lives, its behaviors and its certainties, the World Health Organization had drawn up a report on the healthcare system in Africa from which it emerged a consolidated and, unfortunately, known situation of alarming deterioration. In particular, the report highlighted that HIV / AIDS continues to devastate Africa, where 11% of the world population lives but 60% of HIV-positive people, more than 90% of the estimated 300-500 million cases of malaria. in the world every year they affect Africans, of the 20 countries with the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, 19 are in Africa; this region also holds the sad world record of neonatal mortality.
Another WHO report, these days, informs instead that Covid-19 has entered fully between the problems of the African continent and the confirmed sick are, at the moment, more than one hundred thousand.
But the correct reading of this last report must not shift the readers' attention to the number of infected people but to that of the confirmed ones.
In fact, in a continent that reaps victims for the ongoing ongoing fratricidal wars, hunger, historical diseases and which lacks adequate communication systems or functioning social structures that allow you to have any situation under control, you must reasonably think that the data referred to covid-19 in Africa are to be amplified to the nth degree.
The one hundred thousand sick people of covid-19 in Africa are probably the tip of an iceberg which, although it concerns the African continent, will inevitably end up impacting our continent and conversely also on Italy.
This government, in recent days, has once again shown a maniacal attention to immigrants. Which would not be a reprehensible attitude. The word welcome, in fact, can have an adequate meaning if we are talking about limited fringes of the population who are fleeing a war and come for a period of temporary stay on the doorstep of our house. At that point solidarity is a must. But in the face of hundreds of thousands of people who move across the continent to reach the coasts of our country with the help of NGOs or makeshift vehicles, one can only ratify that it is no longer a question of welcoming refugees and refugees. but it is a matter of planned displacements of masses of young Africans who go to insert themselves without an order, without support and without rules, in a national social system that has difficulty supporting, with their work, even Italian families and therefore, it will never provide these young people with a future.
But although this is now clear even to the granny next door, our politicians do their best for migrants as they did with the recent amnesty and a spontaneous question comes to everyone: but is anyone bothering to deal with immigration from the point of view of covid-19 infection arriving from Africa?
Italy has already passed the peak of the pandemic, which, going around the world has recently touched the African continent. It is reasonable to think that those one hundred thousand African patients, as has happened in all the regions of the world, are turning into millions of sick and dead who have no chance of being registered and of which there is no news.
It is clear and reasonable to think, therefore, that the mass of young Africans moving to Italy has been affected by the virus, as was the whole of Humanity.
So why does the government not remedy and stop migratory flows? Why take the risk of opening new outbreaks? Why take on unsustainable burdens of intensive care that should instead fall on the countries of origin of these migrants, why put the Italian population at risk again? In one question: Why does the government, in the face of thousands of migrants who disembark daily on our shores, not report to Parliament explaining what it is doing to avoid bringing thousands of infected people from Africa to Italy?