the government is about to fall, the vaccines are not applied and the third wave, in weeks

It seems incredible due to the gravity of the situation, but clashes between political leaders in the Italian government can force resign from the government by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Despite the fact that the pandemic is worsening and a dangerous third wave of infections is coming, which will further increase deaths. In addition, the essential vaccinations, the only concrete salvation from the virus, go to a desperately slow pace In most areas, when to rush them should be a unanimous national obsession.

The internal deterioration of relations between government allies produced a disturbing short circuit. As it is necessary to prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control and ending with the disastrous call for early general elections of deputies and senators by President Sergio Matarella in this parliamentary republic, where governments are born and die in the chambers legislative, the solution requires that the government resign and Prime Minister Conte is tasked by the Head of State to form his third consecutive government, with Parliament’s vote of confidence.

This would be the result of the Prime Minister’s concessions to former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who now has his own party called Italy Viva, to which 3% of the consensus is attributed. But in Parliament, where Renzi was all-powerful during his years as head of government, he assembled a strong group of senators and deputies who were former members of the Democratic Party, the main body of the center-left government. Italy will receive a mountain of money in grants and loans at very low and long-term interest rates for 209 billion euros from the European Union, which distributes fortunes among its 27 member countries to face the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Renzi, a very ambitious politician, wants control more and better the gigantic cake and also other spheres of power, such as the processing of appointments of heads of the secret services. So he’s created a hopeless crisis unless Conte and the others give in.

In the end, they gave in and now the only solution found is to open the crisis, change the government and restore the game of political balances.

Never seen a crisis the most inopportune, with the country facing a second wave of the pandemic that began on March 21 that was more tragic than the first. The deaths already total 75,680, with 348 deaths announced on Monday and 10,800 infected. The hospital system is under great pressure although it suffers less than in October and November. But we fear the arrival of the third wave which will have an impact on the health structures which are slowly organizing themselves for a vaccination campaign that it has to be titanic and as fast as possible, because there is no other weapon to defeat the coronavirus with certainty.

If the third wave is a tsunami (tidal wave) and arrives in the next few weeks, the big mess will be inevitable. The 1,500 large kiosks which must be erected in strategic places and locations across the country to centralize the vaccinations of 60 million Italians, will be installed recently within three or four months, if everything goes well.

Hospitals will have to prioritize thousands of patients with the virus and will not be able to effectively dedicate their facilities to vaccination if the third wave occurs. The situation is already bad because since the end of December, 480,000 doses of North American Pfizer have arrived in Italy, the only laboratory authorized by the European Community to date. Every week a similar shipment will arrive, which requires a big distribution effort because to keep the vaccines they need a temperature of 70 degrees below zero, which has forced the deployment of special refrigerators throughout the country. . So far the doses they accumulate.

The first groups chosen are health workers and the elderly in retirement homes. But in Italy only 62% declared available for sting. And among doctors, patients and other health workers, there are a strong minority who does not want to be vaccinated or prefers to wait to see how those who put the shoulder to the syringe do

There is an official dashboard searchable on the internet, which read this Monday evening 120 thousand vaccinated, too low a number. The Lombards, the largest region, say that from Tuesday, they will march through their 65 centers at a rate of 10,000 vaccinated per day, which will rise to 15,000 next week. But in this way, 2021 can be completed without reaching 70% of the vaccinated inhabitants, or about 42 million, who are needed to bring together the “herd immunity” that protects the rest.

Open schools or not, once again

Another serious question is that next Thursday schools reopen and many claims of caution are heard who prefer to lengthen the deadlines. The problem is not centered in elementary schools, but in the last three years of secondary school. “It is not safe open them now ”, warned the governor of Veneto, the region most affected by the pandemic, Luca Zaia.

The Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions have decided to maintain the closure until the 31st in so-called upper secondary schools. The problem is not within the school but Mobility which produces in transport, one of the main factories of virus transmission.

Girls and boys in the latter years of high school are in distress because for months they have been forced to attend classes from home via the Internet with distance education. “We want our teachers to come back live and direct,” protests Lucia, a fourth-grade teacher in Rome. · And also to be with our colleagues, who are our main friends ”.

Psychologists warn that the shock suffered by schoolchildren it’s deep and that should concern adults.

Vaccine for Francisco

The Vatican has announced that the vaccination campaign will begin in the coming days. The doses will arrive in the second week of this month in sufficient quantity to meet the needs of the Holy See and the Vatican City State.

A gigantic refrigerator has been purchased to contain the doses of Pfizer vaccines, shipped from the North American laboratory’s factory in Belgium.

The Vatican has reported that the doses will be delivered in the atrium of the Great Hall of General Audiences by medical staff and nurses from the Department of Health and Hygiene, to dependents, to families living in the city ​​walls and to the ecclesiastics who work there. In total some three thousand people.

Among those vaccinated, there will be dad Francisco, many cardinals and monsignors of the Roman Curia, the central governing body of the Catholic Church.

Rome, correspondent

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