In Italy, the relaxation of strict corona measures is being discussed. While one draws a sad comparison in the number of deaths in the crisis region of Lombardy. The news ticker.
Update, 19.55 p.m .: The number of on Corona virus infected people in Italy has decreased for the first time. On Monday (April 20), the number of infected was in according to the civil protection authority Rome in 108,237 people tested positive. The day before there had been 20 more infections. “This is the first time that there has been one positive development there, “explained Chief of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli.
Corona virus in Italy: Prime Minister renews calls for corona bonds
Update, 10.06 a.m .: He has three days before the EU video summit on Thursday Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte his Advancement after so-called Corona bonds renewed. Like Conte versus Süddeutsche Zeitung stressed that it now needed “all the firepower of the European Union, through the issuance of joint bonds”.
Corona crisis in Italy: Conte and Gentiloni call for economic aid from the EU
EU currency commissioner too Paolo Gentiloni asked in conversation with the mirror Economic aid of at least another trillion euros. Conte said of the German resistance to the corona bonds: “Not a single euro of the Germans is used to pay Italian debts.” Solidarity is “very specific and limited in time”.
Update from April 20, 7.44 a.m .: Italy is because of the Corona pandemic still in a state of emergency. According to figures from Johns Hopkins University on Monday morning, the country is currently reporting 178,972 corona infections such as 23,660 deaths related to Covid-19. The country is the most affected by the pandemic worldwide, after the United States and Spain.
Italy even records around 3,000 more deaths than Spain, but according to Johns Hopkins University, Spain has almost 20,000 more corona infections than Italy. A ray of hope: have in Italy 47,055 corona infected the Infection overcome and have recovered.
Corona crisis in Italy: lack of childcare is becoming a problem
Update from April 19: About the lack of childcare in Corona times in Italy and the planned ones School closings until September writes the Italian newspaper La Repubblica On Sunday:
“It is being considered how production can be restarted. All steps that are necessary for a safe implementation are determined: from a sufficient one Stock of masks and Disinfectants about the possibility of physical removal up to safe means of transport. Okay.
It is a pity that an important part of this consideration is missing: the family organization of those who are supposed to go to work with underage children. As if those who are preparing to resume production have in mind a composition of the workforce that consists only or mainly of people with no family commitments. Or only from men who can delegate family organization and childcare to their wives or partners. As if we were still in the 1950s. ”
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Corona crisis in Italy: coffins in Bergamo are removed
Update, 6:25 p.m .: Tangible relief in the difficult by the Coronavirus pandemic affected northern Italy Lombardy.
The last coffins were removed from a church in Bergamo, which had in the meantime served as a mortuary. The church is “finally empty,” added Mayor Giorgio Gori Twitter.
The chiesa del cimitero di #Bergamo vuota. Final comments. pic.twitter.com/ZwDPf9kig3
– Giorgio Gori (@giorgio_gori) April 18, 2020
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He uploaded a photo showing the empty nave. Where previously dozens of coffins were stored, there were only individual bouquets.
According to Mayor Gori, died in Bergamo Almost 800 people have been affected by the pandemic since the beginning of March.
According to official statistics, 272 Corona dead registered. However, these numbers only include deaths in hospitals, not at home or in assisted living facilities.
Corona crisis in Italy: Serie A presents plans for restart
Update, 5.45 p.m .: Italy and football are inseparable, the “Calcio”, like the Italians their season in the Series A name is part of the attitude towards life and self-image.
But since March 12, the league is because of Coronavirus pandemic interrupted. According to the ideas of the Italian Football Association (FIGC), the “Calcio” should continue at the end of May and beginning of June, FIGC President Gabriele Gravina explained to the broadcaster Rai 1.
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First of all, however, a strict health protocol must be observed, which the Association of Ministers of Health Roberto Speranza and Minister of Sports Vincenzo Spadafora had submitted.
Gravina added that he hoped that all teams could play in their own stadium, even in the particularly affected north.
Again Corriere dello Sport reports, there are alternative plans. Namely, to have all twelve remaining match days in four cities: in Rome (Stadio Olimpico), Florence, Naples and another city in the south. The north of the Mediterranean country would thus be excluded.
Corona crisis in Italy: support in advertising for Eurobonds
Update from April 18, 5 p.m .: Persistently advertises Italy with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the top by so-called Corona bonds, ergo, joint debt with the EU partners to the economic consequences of Coronavirus pandemic cushion.
Prime Minister of Italy: Giuseppe Conte.
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In Germany, the Greens and the Left Party have endorsed the community bonds, but the CDU and CSU – and thus the Federal Government – have so far rigorously rejected them. Support for the Italians was now provided by Achim Truger, a German economy.
“Community debts, from which the particularly affected countries benefit, are necessary in my view,” he said Rheinische Post. He warned against countries like that Italy and Spain related to financial problems due to the Coronavirus pandemic to push for budget cuts. That “would be the end of the euro and possibly even the EU,” said Truger.
First report from April 18: The Corona virus has in Italy provided for such bad conditions that people in Germany spoke warningly of “Italian conditions” when it came to dealing with the crisis.
Meanwhile one speaks in Italy thanks to better statistics increasingly over the Exit from the strict corona–activities. A new one is paving the way North-South conflict.
Coronavirus: Italy has the most deaths after the United States
The strict rules apply in Italy Exit bans for citizens until at least May 3school openings before the summer holidays are not expected. On Friday, the country announced a record number of people who have recovered from a corona infection. A total of 2,563 people were healthy again within 24 hours. However, 575 people also died.
Lombardy: Corona kills more than in World War II
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy 22,745 People on the virus died. This puts the country behind the USA (31,456 deaths according to Johns Hopkins University) in second place in this sad ranking. The region was particularly hard hit Lombardy in the North. Like the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa 11,851 civilians died in the region in two months from the virus. These are five times more civilians deadwhen there was in Milan during the Second World War between 1940 and 1945. Emergency Commissioner Domenico Arcuri is quoted as experiencing a “great tragedy” that has not yet been defeated.
Coronavirus, Arcuri: “In Lombardia 5 volte i morti civili della seconda guerra mondiale” https://t.co/lZQmwDE2F3
– La Stampa (@LaStampa) April 18, 2020
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Nevertheless, there were already first Easing of the activities in parts of Italy. Bookstores, train station stores, and baby clothing stores reopened on April 16. The prerequisite was compliance with hygiene and clearance standards. The hard-hit provinces of Lombardy, Lazio and Piedmont were also excluded from the easing.
Corona loosening in Italy: South threatens to close borders with North
The corona crisis also made the big ones clear once again regional differences in Italy. The poorer south became increasingly a social powder keg due to the restrictions in force, as many income opportunities no longer exist. This split is now continuing.
The regions Lombardy and Veneto urge a report by Corriere della sera now take action as soon as possible loosen. The fear of irreparable damage predominates here economy. Of the south holds against it. Here one fears that an opening of the difficult of Corona virus affected regions in the north would lead to an increased infection in their own part of the country. Vincenzo De Luca, president of the Campania region, warned drastically that he would close the internal Italian borders in this case. He thinks of a “regulation to ban the entry of citizens from these regions,” the paper said.
Dealing with the Corona crisis is increasingly dividing the country. The crisis is now increasingly being used for political power struggles.
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