Covid-19: Italy with more than 19 thousand cases and 91 deaths in 24 hours
Italy has registered 19.143 new infections and 91 deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The country carried out 182 tests between yesterday and today.
According to official data, with today's figures, Italy has accumulated 484.869 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, in mid-February, while the number of deaths rose to 37.057.
The number of hospitalized patients continues to increase, and there are now 10.459 across the country.
Faced with the “alarming” increase in cases of contagion with the new coronavirus, several Italian regions have tightened restrictive measures.
The Campania region, whose capital is Naples, will soon order a general confinement, while the government in Roma continues to resist a new total lockdown of the country.
The populations of the regions of Lombardia, Lazio, Calabria and Campania itself already have a mandatory curfew between midnight and 05am.
But the pressure is great for a new lockdown. Scientists and governors cry out to the prime minister Giuseppe Conte for a total blockade.
“We are one step away from tragedy, we have closed everything: we need drastic measures,” said Vincenzo De Luca, governor of Campania. On his Facebook profile he wrote that “within a few days we run the risk of having a blocked ICU.”
Speaking about a possible lockdown, Lombardy governor Attilio Fontana said: “let's see the numbers. If the wave continues, we will have to take other measures. We must prevent our health from being paralyzed. A new lockdown would be unbearable,” he told the channel Sky TG 24.
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