curfew from 11pm to 5am. Shopping centers closed on weekends – Corriere.it

Faced with the increase in infections from coronavirus, the authorities of the region Lombardy, the hardest hit during the first wave of the pandemic Covid, they asked the government for a curfew starting from Thursday 22 October. This measure would require, between 11pm and 5am every day, the closure of all activities and the stop to travel, with the exception of exceptional cases.

Among the requests made to the government there is also that of to close, on Saturdays and Sundays, the medium and large commercial distribution, except for food and basic necessities shops (including i supermarkets: here the specific article).

We have decided to issue a provision that is also symbolic, said the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana on Rete4, to try to give a blow to one of the causes of the contagion that started again and which are the gathering, the nightlife, the parties, the meetings in the square, all things that are not they manage to check because we can’t get enough police and officers.

The proposal – arrived, unanimously, come on mayors of all the capital municipalities of Lombardy, by the president ofAnci, Mauro Guerra, by the majority and opposition group leaders and by Fontana – has already been accepted, in substance, by the government.

I’m agreed on the hypothesis of more restrictive measures in Lombardy. I heard from President Fontana and the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, and we will work together to do so in the next few hours, the health minister said Roberto Speranza, who did not go so far, therefore, to give the go-ahead on behalf of the government to individual measures included in the request.

Who will be able to move during the curfew

The request would include, as occurred during the months of the lockdown last spring, some exceptions, to allow the movement to reasons of health, work and proven need, and arrives after having taken note of what is represented by the Lombard Technical Scientific Committee.

The places in intensive care in Lombardy

In particular, the Indicators Commission set up by the Directorate-General for Welfare of the Region has provided that to October 31st there might be about 600 hospitalized in intensive care and up to 4,000 in non-intensive care. Currently, there are 113 hospitalized in intensive care, 1,136 non-ICU hospitalized. During the dramatic days of last March, Lombardy found itself healing up to 1,300 Covid patients in intensive care. Until 11 October, the occupancy rate of intensive care places in the Region it was 5.6 per cent. The fear, said the president of Lombardia Fontana, that the situation could become challenging by the end of the month. We will use the hospital of the Fair, by the end of the week it will be ready to receive patients.

We can’t track the infections

For days, the number of new infections in Italy has been growing at a much higher rate than those recorded until the end of September. In Lombardy the situation is particularly delicate, for many reasons: also on Monday 1,687 new positives were recorded, with a percentage of positives in relation to swabs carried out higher than the national one (11.5 percent, against 9.6 percent on Sunday).

On Monday, Ats Milan health director Vittorio Demicheli explained that we can’t track all the infections. Anyone who suspects that they have had a risky contact or symptoms stay home. Demicheli had also explicitly invited the authorities to make decisions a little more incisive, and had mentioned the choice to close the activities at 6 pm. During the first wave, he explained, Milan had been affected marginally: what we see is that the contagion circulates more quickly in the areas that were least affected last time, when the lockdown occurred.

What is happening in Milan

Milan, as explained who, today the heart of the epidemic: 436 cases in the city, 814 in the metropolitan area. For the Ats the contagion index Rt a 2 – which means that an infected person today infects, on average, two. This data is considered the signal that the containment measures adopted so far (masks, prohibition of gatherings and social distancing). have been ineffective, and of particular concern since indicates an exponential capacity for spreading the contagion.

The further steps and the position of the government

The mayor of Mantua, Mattia Palazzi, he said on Monday evening that if the number of positives goes up again, it will need to be done further steps, and of this we must all be aware.

On the day of Sunday, the government has passed a Decree of the presidency of the council of ministers (Dpcm: here the full text) in which, as well as some measures to combat the spread of Covid in Italy, local authorities were asked to be protagonists in the request for further restrictive measures: local and targeted lockdowns (or curfews), to try to avoid a national closure.

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