As in other European countries, the trend of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy must increase again. Along with Spain, France and Germany, the country has begun to register high levels of contagion, with 379 new cases currently concentrated, mainly concentrated in the Veneto and Lombardy regions. In 8 regions (out of 21), the contagion rate is greater than 1 point, the popular threat measure used to identify the required point of care.
According to experts, “the number of Covid-19 instances in our country is expanding slightly, even if content is maintained. This is expected because the epidemic is high in other countries of the world and we are surrounded by countries where the number of cases is expanding,” said Gianni Rezza, CEO of the prevention company of the Italian Ministry of Health. “Fortunately, our formula responds well and all houses are immediately known and confined. This requires the desire to maintain careful behavior, i.e. to maintain physical distance, to wear a mask in public places, especially indoors, and to wash your hands frequently.” Added.
With the summer season and the lifting of restrictions in Europe, Italy seeks to restart its economy, encouraging a return to normal. But the government remains cautious. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave the impression in parliament of providing a solution to expand the state of emergency until October 15. based on technical assessments,” he said.
Not everyone in parliament shared this reasoning. ‘I’m not going to mess around, I think what’s going on is incredibly serious. This is a blockade on a liberticide that the government has put in position under the excuse of the coronavirus. There’s no other reason,” Giorgia said. Meloni, leader of the far-right Party Fratelli d’Italia.
Similarly, the position of Lega leader Matteo Salvini, who in parliament refused to wear a mask and, at several public events, did not take any protective measures, which added distance to others. “A greeting across the elbow means the end of the human species, and I refuse to do so. Every time he comes up to me, if they give me a hand, I break the law and the strait,” he says.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella appealed to the Italians’ sense of responsibility. “We cannot and will not have to forget what happened, those weeks in which many of our fellow citizens died every day, where hospital doctors and nurses made an excessive effort, taking serious non-public risks, to care for them. were sick, when in the cemeteries there was no room for all the coffins. That was only four months ago. On March 31, 800 of our fellow citizens died on a single day. […] Sometimes the issue of violation of the Fitness Standards refers to prudence as an expression of freedom. But freedom deserves not to be entitled to sicken other patients. Learning to live with the virus until there is a vaccine does not mean behaving as if the virus has disappeared. Only by remembering what happened, and without dividing ourselves on the basis of prejudice, can only, through an unusual search for perspective, lay the foundations for mandatory recovery and reach a new normal.”
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