(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Over three years old since the state of emergency was declared, in 2020, after the original outbreak of WuhanToday, On Friday 5 May, the World Health Organization announced that the global health emergency due to the Covid pandemic is over. It was the general manager who made it official Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who spoke of “a moment to celebrate but it is also a moment to reflect. The idea of the potential threat of other pandemics must remain”.
“At the start of the pandemic, there were around 100 cases of Covid outside China and there were no deaths reported. In the three years since the world has turned upside down: about 7 million deaths have been reported by WHO, but we know that the estimate is many times higher, amounting to at least 20 million deaths”adds Ghebreyesus.
So a warning to the future. “We now have tools and technologies to prepare for pandemics better and recognize them sooner, but globally a lack of coordination could invalidate these instruments. Lives have been lost that weren’t meant to be lost, we promise our children and grandchildren that we will never make the same mistakes again.”
In Italy Almost 26 million cases and 190 thousand victims: this is the global balance as of May 3, two days before the declaration of the end of the international health emergency decided by the World Health Organization. A primary health emergency immediately became economic too: many emergency measures fielded by Governments aimed at supporting families, workers and businesses by stemming the negative effects on the economic system. So much so that right at Our country holds the European record for public aid during the pandemic.
Strategic The role done by SACE in support of the country’s economic fabric: huge the mobilized resources by the Group in support of Italian companies from the beginning of the pandemic crisis to today, playing a fundamental role in supporting the economic recovery of the country and the ecological transition of companies, in support of the PNRR and the implementation of the Green New Deal. Always under the sign of the initial vocation of support export and internationalisation.
Just as fundamental was the rrole of the banking system in crisis management and overcoming. On the front line since the first hour, Intesa Sanpaolo who wanted to join the country’s efforts to face and overcome the emergency with a donation (one of the largest in Europe) of 100 million, at the beginning of the pandemic, therefore, in 2020, from which 16 hospitals and 2 Covid Emergency Centers benefited in eight Italian regions. In particular, the donation has arrived In the initial moment of the spread of the pandemic and therefore the most critical, has allowed the creation of 36 health wards from scratch, re-converted wards for the management of the Covid-19 emergency and specialist diagnostic laboratories, as well as the structural increase of about 500 new beds mainly in intensive and sub-intensive care. Furthermore, it has so far enabled an endowment of more than 1,900 medical and diagnostic devices essential for patient management:
The support from was also immediate and concrete Unicredit which again in March 2020, therefore, at the beginning of a battle that would last three years, he immediately started a Group-wide fundraising initiative to support three of the Italian hospitals most involved at the time, both in terms of patient care and scientific research. Every euro donated by employees – announced the Group in a note – will generate an additional contribution from UniCredit Foundation of 10 euros, up to a total of 1 million euros dedicated to this initiative. This initiative – explained the Group – adds to the UniCredit Foundation’s decision to donate 200 thousand euros to the IRCCS Ca’ Granda Foundation in Milan, one of the best public hospitals in terms of research, with the aim of creating a new infectious disease hospital unit and to support the infectious disease research project to improve the prevention and effectiveness of treatments against the new coronavirus”.
Timely interventions and constant commitment lavished by structures and people che have contributed substantially to the management and today finally to overcoming the emergency with a fundamental teamwork Institutions – banking system and businesses to support and relaunch the country’s productivity and competitivenessgiving life to one stronger, more sustainable and inclusive economic growth, in line with the objectives of PNRR.