In Italy, every two minutes a person dies from the coronavirus

The contagion rate is dropping slightly and many are proclaiming victory, but deaths are increasing. Every two minutes someone dies from coronavirus in Italy, which exceeds the 46 thousand deceased.

The Mortality Index, which measures the relationship between deaths and Covid 19 infections, places Italians in the third place (3.8) in the world behind Mexico and Iran. Argentina ranks ninth in the world in mortality with 2.7. In the mortality index, Belgium leads with a 128 burial, Italy is seventh with 75. Argentina, with 80.3, is third behind Spain with 88.3.

According to data from this Wednesday, daily deaths were 753. And the registered cases 34,282.

The government has divided the twenty regions into three colors (red, orange and yellow) in order not to apply a total quarantine at the national level which would lower the most tragic figures but would economically sink the country, as happened in the first phase of the pandemic, which lasted 72 days, with very good results.

In this context, it seems unknown but it is the clashes and controversies that have come to dominate. So much so that the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, was forced to risk his enormous prestige and to ask the political leaders of the regions to accept the “necessary criteria” which gradually place the regions in the red zone with more restrictions. important in the movements and more important closures of businesses, public places, avenues and streets, which encourage overcrowding of people and vehicles.

As of Tuesday, those infected were 32,191 with a slight decrease in the rate of infected, but the number of deaths in 24 hours exploded like a bomb. There were 731 on Tuesday and 753 on Wednesday, similar data those that were recorded during the hell of the first wave of the pandemic in March-April, when it peaked on March 29, with nearly a thousand deaths in one day.

“A loyal partnership serves,” Mattarella said. The 21 indices imposed by the government to automatically measure the level of risk it justifies is between reds, oranges or yellows, are rejected by most governors.

Above all, Lombardy (Milan) and Piedmont (Piedmont), the two most industrialized and richest regions of the industrial north, want to change it. Piedmontese President Alberto Cirio, who belongs to the Northern League’s right-wing opposition like Lombard Governor Attilio Fontana, said the data shows “that we should now leave the red zone and go down to orange (with much less restrictions). ”The two governors propose to reduce the indices from 21 to 5“ to be clearer with the citizens.

But the government, with the support of the scientific world and the anguish of public opinion, opposes the loosening of the reins of the restrictions because of the backlash that a new galloping wave of the pandemic, as occurred in October, causes a new endless wave of mourning.

It was announced on Wednesday that the Abruzzo region has also been “elevated” towards the red zone from the orange intermediate zone.

Calabria

The center of attention is Calabria, with a stormy history of difficult problems in its healthcare system that has sent it headlong into the ‘red’ zone despite its protests. The government maintains that this was indicated by the famous 21 parameters, “which we cannot politicize”, according to Minister Francesco Boccia.

Regent Governor Antonio Spirli protested because eleven years have passed since the health system intervened, with the appointment of a commissioner appointed by the central government several scandals and the accusation of mafia infiltration in the nodes of the functioning of hospitals.

The government of Rome is committed a flurry of errors. In ten days, three commissioners had to be indicted. Rifleman General Valerio Coticelli was sacked after giving a fatal interview in which he did not recall plans to fight the coronavirus and responded with silence to other basic questions.

Intellectual Giuseppe Zucatelli replaced him with sympathies from the left, which lasted for a few hours until a video from some time ago was published in which he said that thThe chin strap “is useless” because only distance matters.

“For there to be contagion through the mouth, a wrap fifteen minutes, at least, ”he said. On another. The latest arrival, Professor Eugenio Gaudio, former rector of the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome, resigned a few hours after his appointment. His wife told him that he would “never” go to live in Catanzaro. Gaudio gave up.

The ridiculous scenario in the midst of so much tragedy had at least one savior protagonist, the surgeon Gino Strada. A multiple Nobel Prize candidate, the famous doctor is the founder of Urgence, a humanitarian organization that has hospitals in some of the worst places in the world, in Africa and Asia, especially in those experiencing endless war tragedies. .

Strada accepted Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s request for help. According to the national civil protection, she immediately implemented a construction plan field hospitals and offer the experience of himself and his hundreds of collaborators to improve the efficiency of the hospital system and the management of a network of “Covid hotels” for patients who have to leave free hospital beds but receive adequate and isolated assistance in structures such as hotels under contract with the government.

Calabria is one of the poorest regions in southern Italy, with the lowest income level in the country and its ungovernability poses a great challenge for the government. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that “the Calabrians deserve an answer after so many years of mismanagement of the health system and I take full responsibility for it”.

Calabria is the Italian region with the lowest per capita youth income in the whole country. Register the highest unemployment rate, 21%, which reaches 30% among young people.

Half of the region’s budget is devoted to the health sector.

Rome, correspondent

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