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Furious Italian MEP criticises Brussels for abandoning Italy - 'Our patience has ran out!'
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China brings hope to Italy, while EU turns its back
Italy is now the hardest-hit nation after China, with more than 1,800 deaths and over 24,747 confirmed cases of Covid-19
By DAVE MAKICHUK
MARCH 17, 2020
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte: "We are facing an emergency, a national emergency. We have to limit the spread of the virus and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed."
China has delivered a planeload of medical supplies, including masks and respirators, to help Italy deal with its growing Covid-19 crisis, China Daily reported.
Understandably, with medical supplies running dangerously low, the Italian people have expressed their gratitude for China’s help after the planeload of needed supplies and courageous expert volunteers arrived in Rome, the report said.
What’s hard to comprehend, however, is that Italy’s European Union partners have turned a deaf ear to its pleas for help.
Al Jazeera.
“In this moment of great stress, of great difficulty, we are relieved to have this arrival of supplies. It is true that it will help only temporarily, but it is still important,” said the head of the Italian Red Cross, Francesco Rocca.
“We have a desperate need for these masks right now. We need respirators (that will be donated to the government). This is for sure a really important donation for our country,” Rocca added.
A team of nine Chinese medical workers arrived in Rome late on Thursday, along with about 30 metric tons of equipment, on a flight organized by the Red Cross Society of China, the report said.
Lu Ming, a member of the team who also works with the National Health Commission’s international cooperation department, said: “To bring down the mortality rate is a priority in disease control, especially given that we’re coping with an emerging virus. So we have dispatched the most competent experts in treating severe and critical cases to Italy.
“We’re willing to share hard-won diagnosis and treatment guidelines with Italians, and we also hope that our Italian colleagues will be able to enforce proper quarantine of infected cases and general epidemic control measures,” Lu was quoting by China Radio International as saying.
“We have also carried plasma and blood products from recovered Chinese patients,” Lu added. Using such infusions of blood plasma in infected patients is believed to be an effective therapeutic approach.
Italy’s outbreak risks overwhelming the nation’s hospitals, and some key supplies are running low, according to media reports.
“I appreciate a lot this lovely gesture from China,” Eva Dal Pozzo, a senior business consultant in Italy, told Xinhua. She described the shipment as vital, since the nation’s factories do not have sufficient production capacity.
None of Italy’s partners in the European Union responded to Rome’s requests for help with medical supplies as they looked to protect their own supplies of masks and other equipment.
The aid from China included nine pallets loaded with tens of thousands of masks, respiratory materials, electrocardiographs and other medical supplies.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the impact of the tightened restrictions would still take another couple of weeks to show.
“We are facing an emergency, a national emergency,” he said in a televised address to announce the new restrictions. “We have to limit the spread of the virus and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed.”
Cinzia Pasquale, a senior consultant on European Union affairs living in Lombardy, was quoted by Xinhua as saying, “Seeing how China has managed the outbreak in Wuhan, I am personally very confident of the contribution that the Chinese medical staff will make to the heroic Italian doctors who have been overwhelmed by this health emergency.”
Meanwhile, Italy has closed all shops except food stores and pharmacies in Europe’s toughest lockdown yet as virus deaths and cases continued to rise.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/china-brings-hope-to-italy-while-eu-turns-its-back/
Italy is now the hardest-hit nation after China, with more than 1,800 deaths and over 24,747 confirmed cases of Covid-19
By DAVE MAKICHUK
MARCH 17, 2020
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte: "We are facing an emergency, a national emergency. We have to limit the spread of the virus and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed."
China has delivered a planeload of medical supplies, including masks and respirators, to help Italy deal with its growing Covid-19 crisis, China Daily reported.
Understandably, with medical supplies running dangerously low, the Italian people have expressed their gratitude for China’s help after the planeload of needed supplies and courageous expert volunteers arrived in Rome, the report said.
What’s hard to comprehend, however, is that Italy’s European Union partners have turned a deaf ear to its pleas for help.
Al Jazeera.
“In this moment of great stress, of great difficulty, we are relieved to have this arrival of supplies. It is true that it will help only temporarily, but it is still important,” said the head of the Italian Red Cross, Francesco Rocca.
“We have a desperate need for these masks right now. We need respirators (that will be donated to the government). This is for sure a really important donation for our country,” Rocca added.
A team of nine Chinese medical workers arrived in Rome late on Thursday, along with about 30 metric tons of equipment, on a flight organized by the Red Cross Society of China, the report said.
Lu Ming, a member of the team who also works with the National Health Commission’s international cooperation department, said: “To bring down the mortality rate is a priority in disease control, especially given that we’re coping with an emerging virus. So we have dispatched the most competent experts in treating severe and critical cases to Italy.
“We’re willing to share hard-won diagnosis and treatment guidelines with Italians, and we also hope that our Italian colleagues will be able to enforce proper quarantine of infected cases and general epidemic control measures,” Lu was quoting by China Radio International as saying.
“We have also carried plasma and blood products from recovered Chinese patients,” Lu added. Using such infusions of blood plasma in infected patients is believed to be an effective therapeutic approach.
Italy’s outbreak risks overwhelming the nation’s hospitals, and some key supplies are running low, according to media reports.
“I appreciate a lot this lovely gesture from China,” Eva Dal Pozzo, a senior business consultant in Italy, told Xinhua. She described the shipment as vital, since the nation’s factories do not have sufficient production capacity.
None of Italy’s partners in the European Union responded to Rome’s requests for help with medical supplies as they looked to protect their own supplies of masks and other equipment.
The aid from China included nine pallets loaded with tens of thousands of masks, respiratory materials, electrocardiographs and other medical supplies.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the impact of the tightened restrictions would still take another couple of weeks to show.
“We are facing an emergency, a national emergency,” he said in a televised address to announce the new restrictions. “We have to limit the spread of the virus and prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed.”
Cinzia Pasquale, a senior consultant on European Union affairs living in Lombardy, was quoted by Xinhua as saying, “Seeing how China has managed the outbreak in Wuhan, I am personally very confident of the contribution that the Chinese medical staff will make to the heroic Italian doctors who have been overwhelmed by this health emergency.”
Meanwhile, Italy has closed all shops except food stores and pharmacies in Europe’s toughest lockdown yet as virus deaths and cases continued to rise.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/china-brings-hope-to-italy-while-eu-turns-its-back/
Zhukov
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Lazy? Lolz
Italy has bigger Economy then Russia Canada Australia and South Korea.
Plus it is 22 times smaller then India by Population and 75% on India's Economy. Its a 2 Trillion dollar economy you are talking about mate. Lazy people don't have robust economies and industries. Its funny how World War 2 is still making perceptions about nations after so many years.
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If you ever been to France or Italy for business visits then you will know what I am talking of. Italy's main business is Fashion and Religion. There are some tech industries there and in France which sucks in competitiveness. People in France hardly work 30-32 hours.a.week. So yes they used to work hard after WW2. Not anymore.
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Most people here don't know how GDP works in first place and how much comes from inertia of hard work/credibility from before....and it doesnt mean 100% transfer of same concept to today....note even close. GDP is estimate in first place and its not equivalent kind of estimate across all time periods given structural activities of economies change drastically (just like demographics and underlying cultural/psychological propensity driving that)
The debt-driving from leveraging on wealth stockpile from before is bit part of todays developed world. Not a good thing to have to drive economies long term, but neither is it something that will dissipate so quickly.
now china had not given the virus ...
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