Asymptomatic patient on discharge infects 12 No Covid patients: outbreak in medicine, suspended ward. And now personnel screening.
Asymptomatic patient results positive to the swab: 12 non-covid patients in the Medicine Department were infected at the carpet check.
It happens at the San Paolo hospital in Savona where a patient tested positive for Covid at the time of discharge.
As many as 12 positivity to the carpet screening while there is still secrecy about the screening data for staff.
A sudden outbreak that led to the decision for the immediate suspension of the ward towards new hospitalizations.
President Toti admits the outbreak.
The Governor Giovanni Toti clarified to the press what was in progress:
“Asl2 immediately ordered the extraordinary sanitation of the hospital rooms, operational spaces and common areas and, in agreement with the Director of Infectious Diseases, also the carrying out of a screening swab on all patients admitted to the hospital” .
The governor also confirmed the data collected: “The screening activity revealed 12 positive asymptomatic patients, making it necessary to transfer them to the hospitalization areas reserved for Covid patients, the preventive isolation of patients who tested negative for the screening swab and the activation of home isolation for patients discharged in the previous days “.
Not only the patients, also “all the staff working in the ward received molecular screening. As a precaution, pending the outcome of the operators’ molecular swab, the admissions to the hospital have been temporarily suspended “.
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