Longing for holidays, queues and gatherings. But in Italy the coronavirus still strikes

THE FIRST hot weekend seems to wobble some certainties acquired in the relationship between the Italians and the pandemic. Fear? Of course, certainly a few weeks ago because now – despite repeated appeals by scientists to prudence – the feeling is that the majority of our countrymen have a mad desire to give up, resolved, the health emergency that has forced us for a long time to the lockdown.

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Coronavirus, the epidemiologist Lopalco: “School plan? Better options, no one knows what will happen”

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And so masks or not masks, the gatherings at the embarkations for the islands of the Gulf of Naples really make an impression and give the idea of ​​an awareness lost on the street after months of virtuous behavior finally in the interest of everyone. Also because the pandemic does not seem to have ended in our country, where individuals continue to become infected and die in hospitals, day after day.

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Chaos boarding at Beverello, the mayor of Capri: “intolerable gatherings”

by PASQUALE RAICALDO
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Today it was a real escape from the cities to Milan and Lombardy: full trains to Liguria and Garda, intense traffic and queues on the highways leading to the lakes. The same can be said of the motorway arteries between Liguria and Piedmont, although here with the complicity of the numerous construction sites which have slowed down traffic.

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Shipyards and vacationers, motorways paralyzed in Liguria

by STEFANO ORIGONE
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In short, a great desire for holidays in a country where outbreaks – however promptly limited – are repeated with disturbing regularity. In Fiumicino, the cluster speaks of 8 infected and two closed rooms. And now all customers who have gone over there will have to go through tampons.

There were another 27 cases of positivity at Covid in Bologna, relating to the Bartolini logistics warehouse (whose closure is assessed), cases which add up to the previous 64. Two of the infected workers, however, lived in the reception center for migrants in via Mattei. For this reason, sixteen guests of the facility, who had contact with the positives, were isolated and made the swab. It is not excluded that the controls will soon extend to all two hundred foreigners living inside the structure.

Also in Emilia Romagna, in the Bologna area, eight positive Coronaviruses were registered in a retirement home: they are five guests and three workers from the “Virginia Grandì” of San Pietro in Casale. All are asymptomatic, but tests are also underway on other guests, employees and contacts to understand the extent of the outbreak. The rest home was closed again to relatives’ visits, after the reopening on 19 June.

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Mondragone, center-left councilor: “Bulgarian Gypsies”. The Democratic Party: “Language to condemn, apologize”

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In Mondragone, in the province of Caserta, a red zone was set up for an outbreak of contagions in the community – among ex-Cirio buildings – of Bulgarian Roma laborers and, in the night, the van of an inhabitant of the palaces. In a climate of very high tension, however, 730 tampons were made.

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