"This year we will exceed the ceiling of 700 total deaths, which is a worrying value because the last time we went beyond this number was in 1944, during the war”. She said it the president of Istat Gian Carlo Blangiardo, spoke at 'Agorà' on Rai3. A very heavy estimate that could even be exceeded by the final data given that the year "is not over yet" and 2020 is the year of the Covid pandemic.
Forecasts on which various factors weigh: the increase in the average age, the growth of the country's old-age index and, inevitably, also the Covid-19.
“In 2019 the figure was 647.000 dead,” Blangiardo specified. This year more than 65 people have died from the coronavirus. According to the numbers provided by the Johns Hopkins University observatory, Italy is the European country with the highest number of deaths from Covid, followed by the United Kingdom with 64.402 deaths. On a global level, however, our country is in fifth place, preceded by the United States (301 thousand), Brazil (182 thousand), India (144 thousand) and Mexico (114 thousand).
Alarming data that should make us reflect on the way the pandemic has been managed, but also and above all on the countermeasures to be taken in the near future to prevent the indicators from continuing to deteriorate. The gatherings seen in Milan, in Monza, in Rome, last weekend seem to have prompted the Government to reconsider the situation, launching a new squeeze on the model of Germany where from Wednesday 16 December at least until next 10 January there will be a new lockdown. New decisions will be announced in the coming days, but uncertainty and quarrels within the majority reign supreme. According to rumors, the whole country could become a red or orange zone on Christmas and New Year's days in order to prevent travel, reunions and gatherings, but how to do this without exacerbating the economic difficulties of businesses and traders?
In the face of the above numbers there is only one certainty: Italy does not need, and above all cannot afford, to waste any more time, languishing in confusion and uncertainty. Citizens need to know precisely what they can and cannot do, what risks they are running, when the new measures will arrive and how long they will last. Because confusion is an ally of a virus that has already caused over 65 deaths, contributing to a sad record of victims since the Second World War.
