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The Italian MOH has posted a notice on the school closing I mentioned today in an earlier blog:
School and University, didactic activity suspended throughout Italy from 5 to 15 March
Didactic activity in schools and universities will be suspended from March 5 to 15, 2020 throughout Italy. The Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, announced it at a press conference in Palazzo Chigi.
"I pledge that essential public service, albeit remotely, will be provided to all students," added the minister.
The decision, as explained by the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during the press conference, was taken prudently considering the evolution of the epidemiological situation, after a careful evaluation of the Technical Scientific Committee.
Consult the news of Nuovo coronavirus
Today's update touts a case count of 2706 people, but that is the number of cases after those who have been cured, or have died, have been deducted. The real number is just shy of 3100.
Covid-19: cases in Italy at 6 pm on March 4th
As regards health monitoring relating to the spread of the new Coronavirus on the national territory, at the moment 2706 people are positive for the virus.
There are 276 people healed
There are 1346 hospitalized patients with symptoms, 295 are in intensive care, while 1065 are in home isolation.
107 have died, however this number can be confirmed only after the Istituto Superiore di Sanità has established the actual cause of the death.
The number of people infected in the individual regions is as follows:
- Lombardy 1820
- Emilia-Romagna 544
- Veneto 360
- Piedmont 82
- Brands 84
- Campania 31
- Liguria 26
- Tuscany 38
- Lazio 30
- Friuli Venezia Giulia 18
- Sicily 18
- Umbria 9
- Puglia 9
- Abruzzo 7
- Autonomous Province of Trento 5
- Molise 3
- Sardinia 2
- Basilicata 1
- Calabria 1
- Autonomous Province of Bolzano 1
