The coronavirus in Venice it didn't just ruin the Carnival. The streets and alleys of the lagoon city, normally clogged all year round, appear truly ghostly in these days. Empty. And not only due to the voluntary quarantine practiced by many residents, but above all due to the vertical drop in the number of tourists. After all, there are many international airlines that have stopped flights to Italy, and even more those that have cut connections with the areas most at risk, i.e. Lombardy and Veneto.
This video was shot in the streets of Venice on Friday 13 March, at 18 pm, and shows a desolation that is unusual to say the least for the Venetian capital.
Based on data as of Sunday, March 15, cases of coronavirus infection throughout the Veneto region they rose to 2.246, an increase of 252 cases compared to the previous day. The victims instead they reached 68, i.e. 8 more than on Saturday. Patients in intensive care reached 136, those in non-critical areas 487.
As regards the geographical subdivision on a provincial basis, the most significant growth in the number of people infected with coronavirus was recorded in Verona (+83, at 364), followed by Padova (+54, to 592), Venezia (+32, to 328), Treviso (+33, to 425), Vicenza (+33, to 253) and Belluno (+4, to 82). No new infected, however, a Rovigo, where the swab positives remain 27.
Furthermore, for the fourth consecutive day there are no new cases of positivity a Vo' Euganeo (in the province of Padua), one of the 14 Municipalities (together with 13 others in the province of Lodi) that made up the original red zone, that of the first outbreak of the coronavirus that broke out in Italy.
For Andrew Crisanti, director of the Microbiology and virology laboratory of the University of Padua, at this point "The real problem is the asymptomatic positives: if we continue to send them around, we will never eliminate the epidemic".
