ITALY
Gallera: 644 intensive care places for covid. Renew appeal to responsible behavior
“Today we have 644 places in our intensive care available for coronavirus patients. We added 223 to the 723 that were at the beginning, reaching 946. And in the next few days we will open another 150/200 “.
The councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera, said during the press conference convened to take stock of the Coronavirus situation.
“Since the emergency began - he explained - intensive care has managed 778 patients and 103 discharged, 80 have died. 25% of the patients are no longer in TI, and today we are trying to rotate as much as possible patients, identifying other structures that can accommodate less serious patients. We think of hotel structures or larger spaces like those of the fair. It is also under consideration the possibility of using socio-sanitary facilities for intermediate treatments so as to lighten hospital settings and open spaces for intensive care and find spaces like Cuasso al Monte or Sondalo (100 places). The survey on structures like that of Bollate for the sub-intensive also goes on, thus expanding our reception capacity to the maximum “.
And then the strong appeal to keep and spread virtuous behavior. “Abscesses of contagious growth must be stopped - he said - and therefore we re-launch to observe even more scrupulously the indications. We can see the results within 7/10 days, so with the president we shared the need to put in even stronger measures “.
http://www.lombardianotizie.online/coronavirus-casi-lombardia/
AFRICA
By Brinkwire on March 11, 2020
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa has reached 102 confirmed with one death, said the African Union’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
This came in an update Africa CDC head Dr. John Nkengasong gave to reporters at the African Union headquarters on Tuesday.
COVID-19 hit a number of northern, western and southern African countries since a first case was confirmed in Egypt on Feb. 14.
“As of today, there are about 102 cases in 10 African countries, with one death,” Nkengasong said, listing the affected countries as Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo and Tunisia.
Describing some of the activities of Africa CDC, Nkengasong said: “Africa CDC has distributed testing kits capable of testing over 10,000 people, purchasing more emergency medical items including test kits, thermal scanners and other critical medical supplies and stockpiling them to meet the requests from member states.”
https://en.brinkwire.com/news/102-cases-1-death-confirmed-in-africa-from-covid-19/
Comment: Well, there is a death in Africa now, so I’m guess the WHO will declare a pandemic tomorrow.
This is tragic for Italy.
I can only think this is because of their “social non distancing”, that is, the traditional Italian kiss on the cheeks during greetings before they knew about the virus.
If it is not explained by that, I shudder to think what the imported Italian cases will do here!