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Coronavirus Campania, 577 infections – CorrieredelMezzogiorno.it


twelve o’clockMarch 18, 2020 – 7:52 am

The number of swabs made compared to other regions of Italy remains low

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The number of infections in Campania has increased to 577. The Crisis Unit of the Campania Region communicates today 23 positive tests from 108 swabs analyzed at Cotugno, Ruggi and Moscati di Avellino. In Italy, however, 2,500 deaths were exceeded (here the updated bulletin).

Rapid tests
Rapid tests to verify the presence of Coronavirus infection are arriving in Campania, which will be practiced in pre-triage (the order of one million kits). But examining the swab remains essential to curb the epidemic. Campania has now activated almost all the laboratories of the hospital companies, but the number of swabs remains low. Just 2,685 (yesterday afternoon update) compared to 46,499 in Lombardy, 35,478 in Veneto, 14,510 in Emilia Romagna, 9,436 in Lazio, 6,543 in Piedmont, 6,127 in Tuscany, and 3,077 in Puglia or 2,916 in Sicily .

Three field hospitals in twenty days
Three field hospitals to be set up with prefabricated modules in a very short time (fifteen / twenty days) to avoid meeting with saturated intensive care units when the wave of serious infected people arrives. The notice for the emergency negotiated procedure was prepared in a few hours and published already on the website of the Campania Region. In the area of ​​the Ospedale del Mare, the focus is on a 4-module solution for 16 beds each or for 3 24-bed modules. Value: 10,300,000 euros. The second concerns the area of ​​the Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano hospital in Caserta: two 16-seater modules or one 24-module for a value of 2,600,000 euros. The third, will have to be built in the San Leonardo Ruggi d’Aragona area of ​​Salerno with two 16-module modules or a 24-bed module. Value: 2,600,000 euros.

The “Neapolitan” drug made official by AIFA
Meanwhile the
cure against Coronavirus intuited and tested by Cotugno of Naples, it officially becomes a weapon to win the battle against the invisible enemy. The announcement was made by AIFA general manager Nicola Magrini: A large phase two study on Tocilizumab kicks off Thursday to quickly evaluate the possible impact of the drug. 330 patients will be involved, the preliminary data are already promising, he added giving the go-ahead to the anti-arthritis treatment tested at Cotugno by the team of oncologists Paolo Ascierto and Vincenzo Montesarchio. In five days eleven patients treated, more than half with net improvements recorded in 24 hours. The cure, well to emphasize it, does not fight the virus, but its effects. This is lung inflammation that causes hospitalization in intensive care and in some cases death.

The pezzotto gel was seized
In Arzano, in the province of Naples, Finance seized 773 packs of hand sanitizer sprays inside a perfumery, offered for sale without indicating the expected ministerial authorizations. They had been produced by a factory in Frattamaggiore which, taking advantage of the current epidemiological emergency, would have converted the original activity of soap and detergent production into that of disinfectants.

March 18, 2020 | 07:52

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