Covid, the contagion curve is always rather calm, with a large decline in positives and a constant increase in healed. The Ministry of Health makes it known that, in the last 24 hours, the new positive cases have been registered 19.903 (yesterday 18.827) while the new deaths are 649 (yesterday 761). Overall, the positive cases are 684.848, 5.475 fewer than yesterday. The discharged healed are 1.076.891. Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, has signed a new order based on the data from the control room which was held on 11 December. Following the ordinance that will go into effect from tomorrow, 13 December, the Basilicata, Calabria, Lombardy and Piedmont Regions turn yellow.
Instead Abruzzo turns orange. Then the regions are yellow: Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Autonomous Province of Trento. And, again, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily, Umbria and Veneto. The regions of Abruzzo, Campagnia, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Tuscany and Val D'Aosta are orange. Furthermore, the very comforting fact is that there are no more red regions.
The healed increase but the government does not give in on travel during the holidays
"If they want to remove the restrictions on travel in all the Italian municipalities, they will find us very opposed, if they want clarification for the small municipalities in the internal areas, the parliament has the means to do so".
Thus the Minister for Regional Affairs Francesco Boccia who reiterated the 'no' to the relaxation of the measures planned for Christmas and New Year. "We are still in the most critical phase and - added Boccia - if behavior is not rigorous in December, the risk of the third wave is quite certain ”.
Appeal to Italians: respect the rules
The appeal to Italians is therefore to respect the rules and maintain maximum attention - argued the health minister Roberto Speranza -I am worried about the two weeks of the Christmas holidays.
If the free all message passes, it falls back into a dangerous phase, right in January and February when we will be in full vaccination campaign. My line is and remains that of prudence and I strongly reiterate the need not to frustrate the sacrifices made ".
Reduce infections to finally start again with the new year
“On holidays we have a high incidence rate that does not allow us to pass from the mitigation phase to the containment phase. Individual behaviors, people's movements and the phases of aggregation are effective in reducing the transmission of the virus and therefore the more we adopt them the better.
So it is important in the coming weeks to be careful and rigorous in adhering to these measures. We have to lower this incidence in order to be able to restart next year. In this particularly critical phase, restarting is difficult ". Thus the president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro.
