The health crisis killed almost 200,000 people in the country
More than 197,000 dead. This is the dramatic balance of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the health crisis, especially in the first months, when the empty roads in bulk and the coffins in cemeteries have moved the world.
Exactly five years ago, on February 20, 2020, the Codgno hospital in Lombardy confirmed the first case of internal transmission of the Sars-Cov-2 virus on Italian soil before, on January 29, the health authorities had already detected two imported contagions of the Chinese city of Wuhan, cradle of pandemic.
The “patient 1” so called Covidio in Italy was the amateur marathon runner Mattia Maestri, then 38 years old and would have been more than a month in the hospital to heal the disease.
The next day, about 20 other cases were monitored, including his wife and a friend of masters, as well as the elderly who attended a common restaurant, employees and patients at the Codgno hospital.
Still in a tenth in a devastating scenario, the government of the then Prime Minister Giuseppe has decreed an immediate blockage in Codongo and nine other cities near Lombardy, as well as Vo ‘, in Veneto, which would have recorded, on February 22, the first death from Covid-19 in Italy.
The crisis was recognized as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and the World Health Organization (WHO) would have declared only the end of the global emergency more than three years later, on May 5, 2023.
The figures of the Italian Ministry of Health count a tragedy that no one could imagine: in five years, the country has almost 27.2 million cases of Covid, being over half a million health workers and 197,563 deaths.
Now the danger seems to have been behind, but experts ask the authorities to remain careful. “The Sars-Cov-2 virus has entered the mix of respiratory pathogens who reach mainly in winter. It is no longer an emergency, but should be kept under control, as is done with influence,” said the director of the Ansa department , to Ansa infectious diseases of the Higher Institute of Health (ISS), Anna Teresa Plamara.
Among the need for constant monitoring, the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni presented to the regions of the country a new pandemic national plan to face future health crises – the lack of an updated program to fight pandemics was a cause for disputes in Italy after the ‘Covid epidemic.
Meloni’s management project provides that the measures of “restriction to personal freedom” are adopted only in the face of an “exceptional pandemic” and by the laws approved by Parliament and no longer through the decrees, as occurred in the Covid crisis 19.
“The total impression and the lack of communication were the mistakes that made us suffer a massacre that could have been avoided.
And nobody has had the decency and respect to put himself in front of the citizens, admitting his mistakes and sorry “, said the lawyer Consuelo Locati, who supports an association of family members of pandemic victims.
Source: Terra
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