Covid, significant drop in infections: the news of the day is that for the first time in the second wave there was a drop in the currently positive (9.098 fewer). This is also thanks to the high number of healed (31.395). In the last 24 hours, according to data from the ministry of health in our country they have been registered 22.930 new positive cases compared to 28.337 (5407 less than yesterday). The new deaths are 630 (yesterday 562); the increase in buffers is equal to 148.945 (yesterday 188.747) while the hospitalized in intensive care are 3810, 9 more than yesterday. Overall since the pandemic broke out in Italy there have been 1.431.795 positive cases.
There is a drop in infections but in the ward it is always a tour de force
But even if the curve is flattening out, the tour de force that health workers are forced to face is really heavy. "At the moment, the pressure on hospitals throughout Italy is terrible: in just one month, 27 doctors and nurses became infected, 900 a day.
If this pressure continues, it not only makes it impossible to cure patients, but it leaves the front line. So it is absolutely necessary to limit mobility as much as possible and to do only the things that are really needed: everything else for the next month must be absolutely limited ”. He said it Walter Ricciardi, professor of hygiene at the Catholic University and consultant of the Ministry of Health.
Let's save the ski season
“For winter skiing we can find a balance, as they are doing in other countries. It is a sport and can be practiced safely. Skiing could be allowed, leaving bars and restaurants closed. It is a path that we must take together with the government ”.
Thus the president of the Piedmont region, Alberto Cirio, who underlines: “As always, we must seek solutions of common sense. It is necessary to verify if there is the possibility of allowing skiing activities to function while respecting, as a priority, health conditions ". "It would be enormous, irreparable damage if the government confirmed the news circulated in these hours about the possibility of not opening the ski lifts for Christmas holidays ". To affirm it is Giuseppe Cuc, president of the National College of Ski Instructors and of the Aosta Valley Ski Instructors Association.
In Italy there are 15 thousand alpine, cross-country and snowboard instructors and 380 ski schools operating throughout the territory. “Many families - Cuc insists - live only and exclusively on the income received during the five or six winter months of activity. A false start like the one announced would be dramatic for the category and for the entire mountain sector ”.
