From 295 cases on 1 August to 845 on 20 August. Concern is growing about the leap forward in infections, never so many since May 16. The concern is also that concerning the average age of the infected, now plunged to 30 years.
The government plays almost everything in the restart of the school in September. This is also evident from how the consultant to the Minister of Health, Walter Ricciardi, it was necessary to intervene with a note of correction after his words in Agorà in which he spoke of a high risk of postponing the reopening of schools. According to reports from several journalistic sources, Ricciardi must not have spent a good quarter of an hour considering that his words angered (and not a little) the Ministry of the Interior, that of Education and especially that of Health.
Everyone studies the contagion curve and tries projections, but at the moment we cannot be reassuring. The risk is that almost 1500 cases are reached just around the corner of 14 September. Postponing the start of school would be a nightmare and the start of a warm autumn.
The most extreme hypothesis would be that of llocalized ockdowns, targeted where the contagion is highest, but closing, as it was for 55 days from March to early May is, at present, science fiction.
It will reopen 100% in mid-September, at least that’s what the ministers repeat, and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, as reported by La Repubblica, seems to have been clear at the end of June with the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina: he showed her some unequivocal polls and told her that it was necessary to move in time, school is the priority and you cannot fail.
The measures implemented by the government, for now, hold up, but with the reopening of schools the infections will inevitably rise, considering that education moves more than 10 million people. Government sources, however, reassure us: it is a risk to be taken for the complete recovery of the country.
The real problem that agitates Palazzo Chigi, but also Viale Trastevere is another: assuming it reopens, are we sure that the schools will remain open even in late autumn? Reassuring or creating alarmism is useless, it is better to work head-on to reach the goal even if within the government they know that the failure of the reopening of schools could overwhelm not only Azzolina, but the entire government.
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