Red areas closed late: the cards that bother Conte

With the desecretation of the minutes drawn up by the experts of the Technical scientific committee, which supported the government in the management of the health emergency due to the coronavirus epidemic-pandemic, delays in the management of the crisis due to the Sars-Cov-2. Since the establishment of the red areas.

In fact, already towards the end of February – when the virus had already become a threat close to us, and no longer a scarecrow limited to China, given the explosion of the case of Codogno e Vo’ Euganeo – the CTS asked the executive for restrictive measures to limit the outbreaks. However, a request accepted by Rome only after ten days. Two hundred and forty hours probably decisive, given that in epidemiological cases the timing is everything, or almost everything.

In short, the areas of the Belpaese attacked with virulence since coronavirus have been “sealed” with a delay ten days. On February 28, as you can read in one of the official documents that the Einaudi Foundation has managed to bring to light, the Scientific Technical Committee wrote: “The Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto Regions present a complex epidemiological situation awaiting the circulation of the virus, such as to require the continuation of all the containment measures already adopted”. And here the experts list the whole series of counter-moves to be adopted as soon as possible for the red areas: closing of all commercial activities, suspension of all organized, non-ordinary events and events in public and private places, including cultural, recreational, sporting and religious, even if held in closed places but open to the public. Obviously, lockout of schools and universities.

Ten days of non-decisions followed and only on 8 March Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte signs the Dpcm which closes limits the movement between the northern regions: Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Veneto. Three days later, on the 11th, the national lockdown.

In short, not a timely response from the government, given the ten days of the “hole”. And the guilty delay of the government has especially affected the “red areas” of Alzano e Nembro, in the province of Bergamo, the two most affected municipalities in the country. The critical situation in Bergamo, in fact, had been brought to attention by the CTS and also in this case the commission of experts, on March 3, had invited the government to establish the red zone as soon as possible: “The Committee proposes to adopt the appropriate restrictive measures already adopted in the municipalities of the red zone also in these two municipalities, in order to limit the spread of the infection in the contiguous areas”. Blind then the two realities of Bergamo as Codogno, in the Lodi area. This however happened only a week after the unheeded request of the experts.

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