Milan, 11 November 2020 – Lombardy again protagonist of the second wave of Coronavirus in Italy: a quarter of infections in Italy it is in this northern region. The eyes are mostly focused on the Milan, Monza, Como and Varese axis: where the hospitals are collapsing and there are many infected even between healthcare personnel. The area is undergoing what happened to Bergamo last March. For a couple of days some patients are sent to other Lombard provinces. As happened in the first wave, we try to give each other a hand to avoid reaching an out of control situation: there is not only Covid-19 to face, we must continue to give a service also for other pathologies. The Lombard capital is gearing up with i drive-in per i tamponi: a Sesto San Giovanni 250 accesses are made in six hours. In Brianza new ones are sought doctors and nurses e a Bergamo the first module ofhospital at the fair has been sold out in one week and from today they will come open the second and third module. In Valtellinainstead arrives the army to make tampons. Explosive situation a Varese, where the mayor makes it known that “there is no more room in hospitals”, but the Sette Laghi Association reassures: “Record of admissions but well managed”. And, in the meantime, it has been opened in Solbiate Olona a check point at the NATO barracks.
Yesterday the 11 thousand infections were close to, but today the number is more encouraging: in 24 hours they registered 8,180 almost (of which 443 ‘weakly positive’ and 69 following serological testing) compared to 52,712 swabs (in total 3,377,673). The ratio is 15.5%. Yesterday, there were 10,955 positives compared to 47,194 swabs. However, the number of deaths has increased: 152, yesterday 129. As for the number of recovered / discharged patients there are 124,025 (+1.615), of which 6,664 discharged and 117,361 recovered. The hospitalized in intensive care go up a 764 (+56), while those in the other departments are 6.907 (+225).
Bulletin 11 November: the data of the provinces
The new cases of Coronavirus by province still see that of Milan as the most affected with 3.148, of which 1,149 in the capital city (yesterday respectively +3.336 and +1.339). Second is that of How with 958 (yesterday +1.356), followed by Varese with 943 (yesterday +3.081), Monza and Brianza with 854 (yesterday +860) and Brescia with 576 (yesterday +319). The new cases in the province of Bergamo are 168 (yesterday +407), in that of Cremona 193 (yesterday +133), in that of Lecco 243 (yesterday +274), Lodi 131 (yesterday +107), Mantua 248 (yesterday +331), Pavia 385 (yesterday +307) and that of Sondrio with 63 (yesterday +155).
Covid-19 in Italy, 11 November infections / Pdf
Growing again the number of dead: Today I am 623, the highest figure of the second wave of Covid-19. And since the outbreak of Coronavirus the one million infected has been exceeded, but the curve seems to flex albeit slightly. In fact, today the new cases are 32.961, therefore less than yesterday (+ 35.098) but in the face of a largest number of tampons. Which it does drop significantly the positive-procdessated swab ratio: 14.6% against 16.1%. Overall since the beginning of the pandemic, the positivity of 1,028,424 people. The currently positive are 613.358, + 23.248 (yesterday + 16,766). THE discharged / healed are 372.113, + 9.090 (yesterday + 17.734). THE deceased are 42.953, + 623 (yesterday + 580). THE hospitalized with symptoms are 29.444, + 811 (yesterday + 997). In intensive care there are 3,081 patients, + 110 (yesterday + 122). THE processed swabs were 225,640 (yesterday 217,758). Lombardy, in the red zone since November 6, remains by far the region with the most cases in Italy, about a quarter come from here. They follow Campania 3.166 e Veneto 3,082 on the podium. Therefore Piedmont 2.953, Tuscany 2.507, Lazio 2.479, Emilia Romagna 2,428. Over a thousand cases Sicily 1.487, Puglia 1.332 e Liguria 1.102. Therefore Market 701, Abruzzo 662, Friuli Venezia Giulia 572, Umbria 515, Sardinia 416, P.A. Bolzano 386, Calabria 376, P.A. Trento 253, Basilicata 168, Valle d’Aosta 125 e Molise 71.
The absolute trend of the cases in the graph of the Gimbe Foundation
Milan, Bergamo and Lodi: quarantine facilities
While it increases exponentially the infection curve, the search for beds for quarantines and isolations of positive patients discharged from hospitals, in Milan and throughout Lombardy. in the Lombard capital is the Astoria hotel, three stars in viale Murillo, to receive the baton from the Michelangelo hotel, which was the first Covid hotel in the peak period of the emergency, and hosted 511 people between March and June. But also a new and never started RSA, Adriano residence on the far northeastern periphery. Even outside Milan, solutions are being sought and identified for ‘temporary homes’, such as l‘Alpa Hotel of via Nazioni Unite, in the industrial area of Lodi Vecchio. In the city that was a symbol of the epidemic last spring, Bergamo, from 3 November it is operational the Antico Borgo La Muratella Hotel in Cologno al Serio. There is also geared up in the other city that was hit hard by the pandemic in the first wave, Brescia. The Region has given the green light to the “Operational plan to enhance assistance in the territorial network” of the Ats: in these days the agreements are being signed for 5 independent apartments in Bonotto House in Desenzano and for 52 beds, divided between two hotels in the city. A little behind in the conversion of hotels a Varese: according to what is learned, they responded to the appeal of Ats Insubria to identify quarantine facilities, the Ibis Hotel and the Crystal. In the same vein too the Ats of Pavia.
Agrate Brianza: the mini portable laboratory diagnoses Covid
In addition to aid for the infected, there is also aid for health facilities, burdened by the huge demand for Coronavirus tests: a mini portable laboratory designed by StMicroelectronics in collaboration with the Paduan company Alifax. It fits in the palm of a hand and is able to diagnose the presence of the coronavirus in the human body in less than an hour with reliability equal to normal swab test. The diagnostic platform will soon be on the market and can be used also gives small workshops in which they normally do molecular analyzes because they have no skills and machinery and tomorrow even under a tent by trained personnel.
Vaccine made in Brianza, experimentation in January
It could also come from Brianza a vaccine. “In these days we will send the documentation to the health authorities and at the beginning of January we will start with Phase 1 at San Gerardo in Monza, at the Spallanzani in Rome (who will also take care of all laboratory evaluations) e to the oncological Pascale of Naples“he said Lucio Rovati, president and scientific director of Rottapharm Biotech, which already during the first wave of the health emergency put available to Takis, a Roman biotechnology company, “the technical support of our scientific managers, constituting a team with high clinical, toxicology, pharmacology and biological product development skills“. Today the vaccine denominato COVID-eVax is ready to be administered.
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