Health emergency in progress: the most serious since the postwar period. This was reiterated by the Minister for Health Roberto Speranza who presented the health measures to be included in the new Dpcm to the Chamber of Deputies.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health announces that today they have been registered 15.774 new positive cases (yesterday 14.242), compared to 175.429 swabs carried out. The deaths in the last 24 hours are 507 (yesterday 616); since the outbreak of the pandemic to date, 80.326 people have died from Covid in Italy. The discharged healed today are 20.532 (yesterday 19.565); overall the positive cases are currently 564.774 (yesterday 570.040).
The current emergency is the most serious since the postwar period
There is no other way than unity to face this emergency, the biggest since the postwar period. This is why I am addressing the majority and the opposition ”, said the Minister of Health, opening the information to the Chamber on anti-Covid measures. "In the coming months - he added - everything will be terribly complicated. Let's keep the health of the Italians out of the political battle, it would be an unforgivable mistake to slow down in the last mile ”.
New Dpcm, ministers at work
Tonight at 20:30 is expected cabinet on the Covid decree and the extension of the state of emergency. And Speranza, in the Chamber, mentioned the measures that will be introduced in the new decree. The executive representative stressed that “it is the government's intention to confirm the ban on moving even between Regions in the yellow zone.
Just as we want to ban the takeaway after 18 from bars and establish the entry in the orange area of all regions at high risk ". There is then going to reopen museums in the yellow area. The intention is also to confirm the indication "to be able to receive at home a maximum of two people who do not live together as already happened during the Christmas holidays".
