The Bulletin of the USL 1 Dolomiti highlights 63 new cases in the province. An elder from Santo Stefano with previous pathologies dies
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BELLUNO
New contagion in Belluno hospitals. Thus, after the outbreak in the Surgery of the San Martino di Belluno hospital (which since yesterday counts the sixth positive among health professionals), admissions to the Medicine department of Santa Maria del Prato di Feltre have been suspended.
The new emergency
In recent days, after presenting Covid-like symptoms, a Medicine patient was subjected to a swab which tested positive. The contact tracing protocol was immediately triggered, which led to the discovery of another positivity, this time among the health workers working in the ward. The patient was immediately moved to the fourth floor of the hospital, where the Covid space was created, while as of yesterday any urgent hospitalizations will be guaranteed by the other operating units in the medical area (Geriatrics and Neurology).
The bulletin
Meanwhile, the virus continues to rage in the province. In the last 24 hours 63 new positives have emerged: 19 refer to retirement homes, 24 to Comelico-Cadore-Ampezzano municipalities, the others refer to individual contexts in the provincial area without evidence of particular aggregations. “These are mainly people who have carried out the control swab as a case of contact or symptomatic and therefore already isolated”, make it known from the Local Health Authority Dolomiti.
The case of Cortina hockey
Among the new positives there are also 15 players of Cortina Hockey. Yesterday the latest results of the molecular tests to which players and staff underwent from Friday 9 to Monday 12 October arrived. «The situation», specifies the sports club, «shows 15 positives and 11 negatives among the players, while the staff and managers were not infected. Except for a few lines of fever for four players, all the others showed no symptoms ». The procedure foresees that between tomorrow and Sunday the negative subjects are subjected to a control swab, if the outcome is the same they can resume training immediately. The positives, on the other hand, will have to complete the quarantine at least until Sunday 25, before undergoing two swabs 24 hours apart. Those who have been negativized can immediately join the team. Given the situation, Hafro Cortina will not be able to go on the ice for league matches until early November.
Hospitalizations and deaths
The people currently hospitalized in the non-critical areas of San Martino di Belluno and Santa Maria del Prato di Feltre are respectively 28 and 10, while two patients remain in the Intensive Care of Belluno. On Wednesday night, a 93-year-old positive Covid patient died, hospitalized in Covid Pneumology in Belluno. The elder lived in Santo Stefano and was also affected by other pathologies.
The clarification
Donatella Boldo, president of Casa Charitas, intervenes on the positivity in the Lamon retirement home, specifying that «last Saturday three cases of positivity were found among the kitchen staff, immediately placed in home isolation. In addition, in the following days the structure activated the procedures for the containment of the infection, arranging for the rapid swab screening of all the staff and the elderly who were all negative. The kitchen staff and two other people who came into close contact with the positives were given a second round of quick swabs, which confirmed their negativity. There are no other isolated cases in the RSA ». –
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