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[quote=Anonymous]The situation in Lombardy:  0Question at the end -- they mention they are buying more CPAPs to use.  Is use of CPAP something other countries are doing to treat COVID?)

http://www.sondriotoday.it/cronaca/ipotesi-coprifuoco-chiusura-totale-regione-lombardia-coronavirus-contagio.html

[quote]Coronavirus, Lombardy Region thinks about the total curfew: «Shops and offices closed, transport stopped»

The Lombard president, Attilio Fontana: «It is a time of firmness. I met the first citizens of the Lombard capitals, they all ask the same thing: close everything now (except essential services) to start again as soon as possible »

Real curfew. Total block. Lombardy Region is thinking of "extreme" measures to try to stem the Coronavirus emergency, which in just over two weeks has already counted - in Lombardy alone - over 5 thousand infections and more than 300 deaths, with the healthcare system almost collapsing .

After the invitations to stay home, the decrees and the orange areas , the Pirellone is thinking of "tightening" the restrictions, a term used by the councilor for Welfare, Giulio Gallera, on Tuesday morning during a connection with the Rai transmission,  Agorà .

[b]Total block for 15 days in Lombardy[/b]

Just Gallera reiterated - numbers in hand - that "the time has come to tighten up, [b]to also stop transport, shops and production activities[/b]. We must - he stressed closing for at least all of Lombardy for 15 days ».

"It can be useful - highlighted the councilor - to reduce or block the spread because [b]we cannot bear another 15 or 20 days with such a frenzied growth in hospitalizations[/b]".

Basically, [b]only businesses that offer basic services - pharmacies and supermarkets above all [/b]- would remain open, while the rest would be blocked, evidently including a large part of public transport.

[b]The problem is the number of places in intensive care[/b], with the region struggling day after day to build and find new ones. "So far the health system has made an incredible effort, if the numbers continue at this rate - [b]on the 28th we had 57 people in intensive care, on the 9th of March we had 399, with a growth of 700%[/b] - it is clear that we are already thinking about Much more structured solutions that require extraordinary civil protection intervention, "announced Gallera.

"Only on Monday we had 1280 more positives and 588 new hospitalized, we are at 2802. It runs so fast that since there is no drug or vaccine that can cure Coroanvirus, the only way is to stop the spread of the infection - once again stressed -. [b]People must stay at home,[/b] if the indications and exhortations of the decree - because avoiding going out is not an obligation - are not enough, you have to tighten ».

«We can't hold out much longer»

On the same wavelength also the governor Attilio Fontana, who commenting on the government decree that extended the orange zone to all of Italy had explained that perhaps for Lombardy it was not enough. And now the region seems really close to total blockade.

[b]"We can't hold out much longer,[/b]" he said Tuesday morning. It takes a real turnaround, we need a greater awareness on the part of everyone. With the collaboration of citizens, I am sure that in a few weeks the situation will return to normal. "

And then he also spoke of "more stringent" rules. «From the beginning of the emergency I am convinced that only with sacrifices, even more important, than each of us and with the will to observe even more stringent rules, we can overcome this situation. Let's stop it together ».

«It is the time of firmness. I met the mayors of the Lombard capitals and the president of Anci Lombardia, they all ask the same thing: [b]close everything now (except the essential services) to start again as soon as possible.[/b] The half measures, we have seen in recent weeks, do not serve to contain this emergency. "The president of the Lombardy Region wrote on his Facebook page.

223 new places in intensive care

On Monday Gallera himself had taken stock of the situation in the hospitals. [b]"Our goal - he said - was to be able to increase the ICU places by 100/150 so as to manage patients with Coronavirus. Not only have we opened 150, but we have reached 223 and we plan to open another 150 within 7 days [/b]».

«We have [b]stopped the operations of the operating rooms, because each of them can contain 3 intensive care beds.[/b] We are also transforming medicines into pulmonology and increasing sub-intensive care places, "he continued.

Coronavirus, Lombardy Region thinks about the total curfew:

„On February 19, [b]Lombardy had 200 CPAPs, today there are 1600 and Tuesday 500 others will arrive[/b]. "We still manage to give quality answers - Gallera concluded - thanking non-formally all those who daily with endless shifts are busy dealing with this emergency".“[/quote]

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