“Piedmont is healing”: after more than one hundred days of emergency, the crisis unit established for the pandemic from Covid 19. The Region thus takes a significant step forward. After months of fear and anguish among the population, the second Italian region most affected by the virus now tries to look beyond. The crisis unit had been opened on February 22 at the headquarters of the Civil Protection. Now closing, guaranteeing only one turn of availability.
Crisis unit, what changes in Piedmont
The crisis unit created by the Piedmont region in February for the emergency was made up of a team of six members. With a specific task: to monitor the cases of contagion and intervene to help the population. The supervision of the body was the regional councilor for health, Luigi Icardi, led by Mario Raviolo, director of emergency 118, then overwhelmed by the controversy and replaced by Vincenzo Coccolo, appointed extraordinary commissioner for the Covid 19 emergency. Among the others at the helm of the organization are Elide Azzan, of the ASL of Novara, and Paolo Vineis, vice president of the Higher Health Council, professor at the Imperial College of London and member of the data task force for the Covid-19 emergency. .
The unit ready to reopen in the event of a second wave
The emergency seems to have returned to Piedmont, because the epidemiological curve has dropped. But the crisis unit is ready to restart in the event of a new wave. In the latest weekly report sent to the Ministry of Health, the situation appears positive "with values within the reference thresholds, a low level of risk and a reduced incidence compared to the previous week". Hence the decision to relax containment measures and close the unit. "We can say - explains Vincenzo Coccolo, extraordinary commissioner for the Coronavirus emergency in Piedmont - which is good news. The Crisis Unit was the thermometer of the situation. With the progress of events it has been progressively remodeled, and now, in what has become a very advanced 'Phase 2' from our observation point, it has taken on its current form".
Piedmont data on the pandemic
According to what was also reported in various national media, the pandemic has recorded a high number of infections in the North. The total deaths in Piedmont, on Saturday 13 June, reached 4006. The new infections, to this date, are 40 of which 34 asymptomatic. But the number of healed has increased with 319 cases, another 2028 sick are 'on the mend'. The number of people admitted to intensive care has dropped to 27. The diagnostic swabs processed so far are 365.223, of which 201.760 tested negative. And we hope that the easing of measures as is happening in other regions does not lead to an increase in infections. On the contrary, awareness among the population of respecting the rules to avoid a second wave increases.
