Asymptomatic positives will be off the admissions count for Coronavirus starting with the February 1st bulletin? The turning point, announced by the news agency Acted, would be contained in a circular from the Ministry of Health. Which, however, denies everything. According to the Agi, the circular, signed by the prevention and planning management, says that “the patient hospitalized for various reasons is positive for the test for Sars-Cov-2, but asymptomatic for Covid 19, if he is assigned in isolation to the afference of the pathology for which hospitalization is necessary, even though it is traced as a ‘case’, will not be counted among the hospitalizations of the Covid Medical Area, without prejudice to compliance with the principle of separation of paths and safety of patients “.
And therefore, according to what the ministry would have established, from 1 February the bulletin will contain a new field. Which will include Covid patients hospitalized for different causes. Until then, the agency points out, these will be listed in the general notes. Finally, the definition of the Covid case remains unchanged: positive hospitalized patients, regardless of symptoms, “must be traced as cases and communicated to existing surveillance systems”. But by return of post comes the denial of the spokesman for Hope: «With regard to today’s press indiscretions, it is stated that no formal act has been ordered at the moment by the Ministry of Health. Without prejudice to what was recognized yesterday by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, dialogue with the Regions is obviously always open “.
