First ray of hope after more than 15,000 deaths in Italy

Coronavirus is wreaking havoc all over the world, but Italy has suffered the most deaths from this epidemic. According to Italian officials, 681 people have died due to this virus on Saturday and the total death toll has reached 15,362.

But after a long time on Saturday, Italy has seen its first ray of hope. According to the Civil Protection Division, which protects the common people in Italy, it is the first decrease in the number of patients in the country who are treated for intensive care. The unit is running.

Italy’s Civil Protection Division chief Angelo Borrelli has told the media that the number of critical patients in Italian hospitals on Friday was 4,068, which has been reduced to 3,994 on Saturday.

Angelo Borrelli has said, “This is very important data for us because this is the first time the number of critical patients has come down. This is also important because it will give some relief to our hospitals. They will get a chance to breathe.” Ever since we have seen emergency situations, the number of critical patients has decreased for the first time. “

Franco Locatelli, head of the Scientific Council of the Italian government said that the reduction in the number of critical patients is an important sign, but it cannot be taken to mean that Italy has crossed the critical stage.

He said, “It definitely shows that the methods we are adopting are proving effective.”

There is also a decrease in cases of new infections in Italy. On Saturday, 2,886 new cases of infection with Coronavirus have been reported in Italy. Currently, there are 88,274 active patients in Italy under the grip of Coronavirus.

In addition, 20,996 patients have recovered after treatment.

The northern region of Lombardy is the worst affected by the virus. 85 per cent of the infected people from all over the country are from this region and most of the deaths have occurred in Italy in this region.

It has been made mandatory for the people of this area to wear masks when they get out of the house. This new provision will come into effect from 5th April i.e. Sunday and will continue till 13th April.

Not only this, in other cities of the northern part of Italy i.e., Veneto and Alto Adige, it has been made mandatory for people to wear masks when they go out to shop in the market or a shopping store.

Before this, strict steps were taken in these areas as a precautionary measure. For example, until April 15, walking or running on the roads in the area was not allowed. There was a ban on getting out of the bike too. All tourist places and hotels were closed. Apart from this, the construction work of any kind was banned. READ MORE

The Italian Ministry of Health constituted a task force even before the first case came to Italy. Which was specially prepared in view of coronavirus infection. Italy was the first country in the European Union to ban airlines.

Right now there is a situation of lockdown in the whole of Italy, but in Lombardy very stringent provisions are being enforced, in violation of which people are being fined up to Rs 2.5 lakh.

After this, Italy was not successful in curbing the coronavirus. However, Italy continued to treat cases of infection due to health department employees. But the hospital for treatment and the beds in it all fell short, a crisis of both human and technical resources emerged.

Coronavirus infection officially began in Italy on February 20. When a 38-year-old man conducted his investigation in Kodogno town of Lombardy.

When the investigation report came, this person was found infected with the coronavirus. This was Italy’s first officially filed Kovid-19 case. However, some health officials believe that the virus entered Italy long ago. READ MORE

So far more than nine thousand people have died in Italy due to Coronavirus infection while more than 80 thousand people are infected. It is more than any other country in the world.

The Prime Minister of Italy, Gizpezi Conte, has assured the country that before the present emergency imposed in Italy, which ends on April 3, the people will start living normally life even before that.

But the kind of statistics coming from Italy, the situation does not seem to be possible at the moment. The Lombardy region of Italy is the most threatened. In Lombardy itself, a total of 541 people has died in the last 24 hours.

The situation in Italy is currently, such that the dead houses are filled with dead bodies and the death the toll is increasing continuously.

But how did the coronavirus infection reach this level in Italy? What is the reason that the coronavirus is spreading more rapidly in Italy than any other country in Europe and has killed more than nine thousand people.

Coronavirus infection officially began in Italy on 20 February. When a 38-year-old man conducted his investigation in Kodogno town of Lombardy. When the investigation report came, this person was found infected with the coronavirus. This was Italy’s first officially filed Kovid-19 case.

However, some health officials believe that the virus entered Italy long ago.

According to a researcher at the Department of Infectious Disease at the Italian National Institute of Health, “The virus had already arrived in Italy for quite some time.”

He says, “This happened right when we were suffering from the worst phase of influenza and people were coming out with the symptoms of influenza.”

Before the first case in Italy, there were several cases of pneumonia in the northern part of the country. This is officially confirmed as many such cases were reported in the hospital in Kodogno town of Lombardy in which people had complaints of pneumonia.

In such a situation, it is possible that those who have come for treatment have been infected with the virus, but they have been treated not as a virus infection but as the flu or pneumonia sufferer. In such a situation, these people may be due to the spread of the virus.

The northern region of Lombardy is the worst affected by the virus. Of the infected people across the country, 85 per cent are from this region and out of the total deaths in Italy, 92 per cent are from this region.

But this does not mean that only this area of ​​ Italy is vulnerable to the virus. Cases of infection have been reported in all 20 provinces of Italy.

Some officials believe that because the virus continued to spread without detection. Due to this, there are hundreds of deaths in Italy every day due to increasing infection.

According to Ricardo, a health officer from Italy, “We did not know about it when it started spreading. It meant that when we realized that it was spreading, by that time it was a Had spread like a chain. “

Ricardo believes that this is the reason why Italy is currently losing such a large number of its people.

However some officials also, believe that since more tests are being done in Italy than in any European country, the number of infected people here seems to be increasing in this way.

According to the National Health Institute, if the average age of people who have died due to Corona virus infection so far in Italy, it comes to 81 years.

According to the United Nations (UN), Italy is the second country with the largest number of people after Japan. It also means that if these people are hit by corona, then there is a high risk of them getting seriously ill.

A major reason for the deaths in Italy is also being seen that a large elderly population lives in Italy. According to the information found so far in the context of coronavirus, the elderly are at the highest risk of infection with this virus. Italy has a very large population which exceeds 65.

On the one hand, while some experts are looking at increasing cases of infection by linking with the sample being tested, some experts believe that the rate of death in Italy is currently higher.

He argues that this rate is based on reported cases only, whereas in far-flung areas there may be many cases which are not registered anywhere.

According to Dr Kasani, who runs a clinic for the elderly in Lombardy, the population and type of population in northern Italy may be a major reason.

According to IQAir, the Swiss air monitoring platform that tests air quality, Italy is home to 24 of Europe’s most polluted cities.

Experts believe that due to the infection of the virus, trouble in breathing, mortality and polluted air can also be an important reason.

As the outbreak of the virus increased in Italy, it surprised many people. Italy is one of those countries which has taken very strict and strict steps.

The Italian Ministry of Health constituted a task force even before the first case came to Italy. Which was specially prepared in view of coronavirus infection. Italy was the first country in the European Union to ban airlines.

However, the ban on travel proved to have adverse effects in many cases.

When Italy prohibited planes coming from China, many of the travelling people arrived in Italy via connecting flights and did not give the exact details of their entire trip.

Some experts believe that the Coronavirus had already entered Italy before these efforts of the government. But neither the government nor its people got the idea.

Originally published at https://www.mubahisa.in.