“An outbreak of Covid-19 has been found in a municipality in the province of Foggia. – comments the director of the local ASL, Vito Piazzolla – At the moment 5 people are positive. The public health and hygiene service of the ASL Foggia immediately started to rebuild the chain of contacts, placing about 60 people in house isolation. Swabs are in progress, some of which have already failed.
The health surveillance provided for by the ministerial and regional protocols has been activated for all the people concerned, which will allow daily monitoring at home. At the moment, both positive people and contacts are asymptomatic. ” While the general director of the Lecce Local Health Authority, Rodolfo Rollo, explains: “At present in the province of Lecce, to the 5 cases of import from non-EU countries there is an outbreak of 7 cases developed around a currently hospitalized health care professional. The new positive cases were already in isolation as close contacts of the index case. Following the new positivity, the public hygiene service has extended the epidemiological investigation to trace the contacts and limit the outbreak “.
A new death was also recorded (in the province of Foggia, in the age group 70-79) which brings the total to 549. The account of the healed rises instead to 3,962 (+9 compared to yesterday): so the currently positive (cases total less deaths and recovered) went from 64 to 67. Total hospitalized patients, without ICU patients, remained 11.
“Today we will convene the anti-Covid task force, because the signals that come from the world are signals that lead everyone to great attention.” This is what the President of the Region, Michele Emiliano, announced at the press conference for La notte della Taranta. “On Monday we will sign with the police – he added – the collaboration agreement to use them in epidemiological investigations. We are ready to face the second wave, continuing to live”.
And from the province of Lecce, where the current positives have tripled in a week even with still low figures, an update arrives with the usual weekly report by Fabrizio Quarta, director of Epidemiology and Statistics ASL Lecce: “Today there are 16 citizens present in the province of Lecce Covid positive – write from the health company – After a relatively encouraging period, with a clear decrease in the number of cases in the province of Lecce, unfortunately, in the last week, we have recorded an increase in the number of positive Covid citizens The Directorate – General therefore invites you not to let your guard down, to respect the obligation of physical distancing and the prohibition of gatherings, to use the mask and wash your hands properly “. The city with the most positives is Carpignano (4). There are two positives temporarily domiciled in Lecce. There are 7 citizens who contracted the virus abroad, it says.
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