Originally Posted by MarioCP
What is happening in Italy Peter? Today's numbers just landed, and they are again terrifying. Another 600 deaths … I can't even imagine what it must mean for families over there, all these people (500+ per day the last 3 or 4 days) dying parted from their loved ones, in isolation units inside overwhelmed hospitals and exhausted staff

It's, beyond sad, downright horrible …

It is pretty bad. I think that they have stopped publishing the tables that have been available up to now. Or at least I have not found them. Apparently there has been some confusion over the figures because they were published in a different way by Civil Defence and the Department of health.

At the moment the totals are as follows:
In Italy there have been a total of 47,021 cases
37.860 persons currently remain positve
5,129 persons cured
deceased 4,032,

In any case the number of new contagion is not going up exponentially with a fairly stable increase from day to day. We have now been warned it could be another two weeks before we start to see any real decline as it now seems incubation periods may be longer than originally predicted. As much as 3 weeks. The current new infections are being blamed on the fine weekend 2 weeks ago when thousands of people went to ski resorts, shopping, bars, etc despite the advice not to do so and just ahead of the first restriction passing into law in this zone.

Spent a good half hour talking to the daughter of a friend who lives out of Barcelona. She has 3 small children and even though she is not able to work at the moment she decided to have the nanny stay with them. They are on the same sort of lock down as here and she is very nervous about the whole thing. Her husband is working from home but it will have a huge impact on his busines.

Take care out there.

Last edited by Gambalunga; 20/03/20 11:20 PM.
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