Nino Cartabellotta, the head of the
Gimbe health foundation, said Thursday that the COVID-19
pandemic is out of control in Italy after passing the threshold
of infecting 1% of the population.
His statement comes after Italy passed the one-million-cases
mark on Wednesday, when the deceased, the recovered and the
currently positive are added up.
"Yesterday we passed 600,000 currently positive cases, that
means people who are in isolation at home, in hospital with
symptoms or in intensive care," Cartabellotta told RAI
television.
"This is important because, as we know, an epidemic is described
as 'out of control' when the number of people positive goes over
1% of the population.
"Yesterday, in addition to passing the mark of one million cases
since the start of the epidemic, we also went through the
threshold of 1% of the population being currently infected with
Sars-Cov-2".
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