Italy 'Chinese Street' news National emergency may end on March 31 - January 31 Ministry of Health notice shows that 57,715 new infections and 349 deaths in 24 hours; throat swab tests 470,000 times, a positive rate of 12%; 19,913 patients hospitalized due to the appearance of new crown symptoms, an increase of 296 cases, resuming growth; ICU intensive care patients continue to decline, a total of 1584 cases, a decrease of 9 cases compared with yesterday; 2.59 million real-time positive infections nationwide; so far, Italy has a cumulative infection of 10,983,116 cases and a cumulative death of 146,498. Today, Deputy Health Deputy Sileri said the national emergency could end on March 31: "By the end of March, we will waive many of today's restrictions". In other words, the government's symptom consideration will no longer prolong the national emergency, some of the restrictions in force will be lifted, and the health code will be reconsidered.
"Outdoor masks" and "ballroom closures" were postponed to Feb. 10 – Adnkronos reported on Jan. 31 that CDM has decided to extend the closure of discotheques for another 10 days to Feb. 10, and if nothing else, discos should reopen on the weekend before Valentine's Day; the outdoor obligation to wear masks has also been extended to Feb. 10. It is reported that the government originally planned to "extend these Covid restrictions for one month", but some ministers from the Northern Alliance protested and under pressure, the government extended the restrictions "slightly". Disco practitioners have repeatedly stated that they "hope to continue to operate until Valentine's Day on February 14".
School quarantine, moving toward new rules – Adnkronos reported on Jan. 31 that new rules for school Covid quarantine are coming soon. After today's CDM, Education Minister Bianchi and Health Minister Spranza met with Prime Minister Draghi to assess the steps that the Council of Ministers will take next Wednesday, February 2, mainly on "standardizing" some school segregation rules (which also include the validity period of green health codes). With the conclusion of the presidential elections of the Republic, the government has embarked on measures related to the coronavirus emergency with the aim of "simplifying the rules and beginning to gradually relax" existing Covid restrictions.
Stable hospitalization and intensive care rates – Data from Angenas updated last night from Agenas shows that across the country, intensive care patients have "stopped growing" for two consecutive days: in 24 hours, the rate of intensive hospitalizations increased in 5 districts, but more areas showed a decline, with the highest national occupancy rate being 28% in the autonomous province of Trento and the lowest being 5% in Basilicata. At the same time, patients in general inpatient wards also continued to remain stable, with the national occupancy rate "stabilizing" at 30% for four consecutive days: in 24 hours the occupancy rate increased in 5 districts, 4 regions decreased, other areas remained stable, the highest covid bed occupancy rate was still 41% in Valle d'Aosta, and the lowest was 20% in Molise.
Two-year-old girl dies in 3 days: no intensive care beds for children – On January 31 Open.online reported that the two-year-old girl who died of complications of the new crown virus at the Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome on January 30, the details of the death were gradually revealed: the little girl and her parents lived in the small town of Mesoraca, about 50 of the more than 6,000 residents of the town were "positive", and the little girl was never tested. On 28 January, she was unwell, suddenly began to have a fever that quickly worsened, and that night the little girl was taken to the Pugliese Ciaccio Hospital in Catanzaro for emergency treatment, where she had to be intubated immediately because of damaged lungs, severe difficulty breathing, and a minimum oxygen saturation. However, the ICU in Catanzaro is an adult ward, there is no pediatric department, and even the entire Calabria region does not have such an intensive care unit for young children, so it can only be transferred to Rome with the help of the air force.
The "Omicron Cold" kills 9,000 people a month — Omicron, who looks like a cold, killed more than nine thousand people in a single month. On Jan. 31, Fanpage reported that, according to data from January 2022, Italy actually "died in a month from 9,056 people from the new variant of the virus" after entering the fourth wave of a "seemingly less serious" pandemic. Moreover, the number of deaths in January accounts for more than 5% of all COVID-19 deaths since February 2020, so it is not simply "thought that Omicron is a good variant" if the high death toll is not brought about by a normal cold. Although outdoor masks and green health codes exist, death cannot be ignored.
Do you keep your masks? Doctors have different opinions – on Jan. 31, Fanpagne reported that while the United Kingdom, France and Spain did not have a mask obligation, Italy's calls for the removal of masks resumed. Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Hospital of San Martino in Genoa, once again called for "the abolition of the outdoor mask obligation" and that "people have had enough, we can't stand it anymore, let's throw the mask away". But Febio Ciciliano, a member of the Cts and a doctor, believes that masks need to be retained: "The health code policy can ensure that the spring is worry-free, and the color system and school isolation policy will soon change, so let's keep the outdoor masks longer." It's still winter, masks aren't a devastating restriction on people, and the spread of Omicron is still good, with many people getting infected every day. This protective measure of mask is not invasive, and if it were me, I would keep it until the end of the emergency."
Singer Fedez's aunt died of covid-19 – MilanoToday reported on Jan. 31 that Chiara Ferragni and Fedez, an Italian celebrity couple who had both contracted the new coronavirus not long ago, announced to the public that Fedez's aunt had died a few hours earlier in the San Paolo Hospital in Milan due to ineffective covid-19 treatment. According to Fedez, his aunt died of complications caused by the coronavirus, and he then expressed his gratitude to the health workers at St. Paul's Hospital: "A heartfelt thanks to all the doctors and nurses in the Pulmonary Department of St. Paul's Hospital, thank you for their efforts to the end, and thank you for the great humanitarian spirit".
De Luca: "Campania will continue to wear masks" – De Luca, president of the Campania region, said in an interview today in an interview with the central government that "as far as we are concerned, in Campania, even if they have other decisions at the national level, we will continue to keep masks", Fanpage reported. He explained: "We have to be more cautious than other regions. Campania has the highest population density in Italy, and now that's the case, we can observe it with hope and confidence for a few weeks. We have a few months to go and the tide of infection is cooling down, and as long as we remain cautious, I am confident that the people of Campania will return to normal life.". —— Calia
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