After eight months in the white zone, from Monday Sardinia changes and goes into the yellow zone according to the classification of the control room which identified it as being at high risk. In everyday life it changes little, as the Councilor for Health Mario Nieddu pointed out in Videolina, referring to the mandatory use of masks even outdoors, but it is an extra element of attention considering that the incidence of coronavirus cases is turned out to be too high and tracking positives is increasingly difficult. Hospitalizations also weigh on the health system of the island in a worrying way.
The new cases ascertained in yesterday's bulletin were 1,610, with even 8 deaths ( HERE THE COMPLETE BULLETIN ).
But particularly the rules on quarantines, isolation and testing are causing problems. “At this rate - warns the mayor of Cagliari, Paolo Truzzu - we risk stopping. I am targeted by e-mails and messages from people asking for insights on how to behave, the rules are crazy and the life of families, schools, offices and businesses is very complicated. The impact of the virus has significantly changed, data and experts say. The numbers are clear: in the summer wave the percentage of admissions to positives was 5%, today we are at 1%. We have to use different criteria because we have to move forward. The current arrangements were useful for dealing with the impact of the Delta variant, but are impossible and useless for dealing with Omicron ”.
Daniela Falconi, mayor of Fonni echoes him: “This system is no longer feasible, or we change or we will be more and more delirious. And one of the biggest problems concerns the procedures in schools: in theory, children and young people who go into quarantine should be taken care of by public health and monitored. In practice, due to the chaos of the tracing and the enormous amount of work of operators and public laboratories, this is impossible. So what do you do? Swabs in the pharmacy, the result is valid for back to school. But is it normal for families to bear all the costs? Two a week, for those with one, two, three children, are a heavy expense, as well as totally unfair. While waiting for someone from above to notice this monstrous situation, we are trying to understand if and how we can intervene as a Municipality ”.
(Unioneonline)
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