Coronavirus in Italy: doctors alerted by a …

The President of the National Federation of the Italian College of Physicians (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli, called on the government to shut down the country completely given the current state of hospitals which are starting to collapse due to the number of coronavirus patients.

Anelli warned that “if we view this week’s data as a typical trend and project it without anticipating further increases, the situation in a month will be dramatic and therefore we must immediately resort to a total closure. “

“Either we block the virus or it will block us because they warn us that the system does not hold and even that the now yellow regions will soon find themselves in the same conditions as the most affected areas, ”said Anelli.

The regions of northern Lombardy, Piedmont and the Aosta Valley and southern Calabria have been classified as a red zone by the government and a soft confinement, with a ban on leaving the region or leaving the home if not for work, shopping, or for health or emergency reasons.

While Campania has been classified as a yellow zone and therefore has no major restrictions. However, in some hospitals in the Campania region, the request for help was raised before an emergency situation with lines of cars with patients waiting for examination.

“With the current average, in a month, we would reach 10,000 additional deaths,” he warned.

On the other hand, the adviser of the Ministry of Health for the emergency, Walter Ricciardi, also affirmed last night in a television program that “absolutely rapid interventions are necessary. or a national tragedy is coming. “

Meanwhile, the government assesses the increased risk of some regions and Campania, Veneto and Tuscany could in the next few hours be considered an orange or red zone.

While the Alto Adige decided this Sunday autonomously to consider itself a red zone and to apply the soft containment that already exists in other regions.

For the mayor of Naples, Campania, Luigi De Magistris, “proclaiming the region as a red zone is unfortunately an inescapable decision, in fact it is a late decision”. For his part, the mayor of Palermo, Sicily, Leoluca Orlando, assured that “progress is underway towards an announced massacre”.

New peak of infections

Italy has recorded 32,616 coronavirus cases and 331 deaths in the past few hours.

The infection data over the past 24 hours is lower than that of Saturday, but because 191.14 tests were performed, far less than the 231,673 that day.

Importantly, the number of hospitalized patients with symptoms continues to increase, now standing at 29,189, an increase of 1,446 more than the day before, and those admitted to intensive care units also increased by 115, or 2,749. from now on.