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Coronavirus in Europe, Italy surrounded by contagions from neighboring countries

Two things are clear about this “second wave” of cases coronavirus in Italia: the first is that if you look too closely at the daily variations you risk losing sight of the overall picture; the second is that if you observe it from the right distance, and taking into account what is around that frame, Italian photography tells a still comforting reality, compared to many European countries in which the virus gallops at faster speed. high.

The Sunday bulletin of the Ministry of Health says that the new cases in the last 24 hours are 1,587: about forty fewer than the day before but with a decreasing number of tampons (83,000, on Saturday they were 103,000). The positives on the total of tests are 1.9%, in trend with the last month, when the daily cases have returned stably above the thousand but never exceeding 2 thousand. The deaths returned to drop yesterday: 15 people died due to Covid, a number more in line with the last few weeks after the 24 victims who had worried Saturday.

Opening the lens a bit, the last two weeks say that on average Italy has about 33 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, with 222 people in intensive care and 2,365 currently hospitalized: apart from Germany, Poland and a few others, the countries surrounding the peninsula are experiencing a more serious condition. There Spain, which two days ago had introduced a series of severe restrictions on mobility in 37 health areas in Madrid (where yesterday hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the “class” choice of the local government, given that the new red areas are mainly inhabited by low-income families and immigrants), has a sickness rate ten times higher than in Italy, five times the number of hospitalized and six times the number of those hospitalized in intensive care. There France, which for days has been traveling steadily above 10 thousand new positives every 24 hours (with a record of 13,500 on Saturday), has 185 cases per 100 thousand people in the last two weeks, almost 6 times in Italy, and has seen the age rise of the sick and aggravate their conditions.

Further to the Northeast, the picture became complicated: Belgium, Holland, Austria and Hungary have broken through the share of 100 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in the last 14 days, the Switzerland has more than 60, while Portugal and UK – the latter already struggling with the hypothesis of a national lockdown “that we cannot exclude”, the authorities say – they are both around 70. The second wave has also hit Eastern Europe: in the Czech Republic the virus is proceeding one step further than the French one and the government is considering “declaring a state of emergency” in order to reintroduce more stringent measures, after making the mask mandatory again in closed places; the continent’s highest rate of deaths from Covid belongs to Romania, while Montenegro overtakes Spain in new cases. And then there is Sweden, which has never closed: today it has a level of new positives equal to the Italian one, but for many months it had much higher numbers than the Nordic countries. The dead in the world are 960,000: soon they will reach one million.


September 21, 2020 (change September 21, 2020 | 00:29)

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