The activity started today and concerns travelers returning from Spain, Malta, Croatia and Greece. The test results will be communicated within 48 hours
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Starting today, also at Catania airport “extraordinary health checks for tourists from Spain, Greece, Malta and Croatia will be started – explains the Catania Airport Company, in compliance with the provisions of the Minister of Health”. The results will be communicated within 48 hours.
Today 44 new cases of coronavirus have been registered in Sicily. 3,129 new swabs were performed, bringing the overall swab total to almost 322,000. TO Panarea tampons to 63 people, after a tourist tested positive for Covid-19 after returning to Naples at the end of the vacation. All tests gave negative results. (CORONAVIRUS: ALL THE UPDATES)
19:31 – Musumeci: “38 new positives in Lampedusa”
“Our health workers, who I will never stop thanking for what they are doing, have just informed me that 38 new Covid-19 positive migrants have been identified in Lampedusa”. This was stated by the president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci. “It is yet another episode. We honestly do not understand the attitude of the central government which, in addition to not closing the Sicilian ports, has not yet pronounced itself on the ‘state of emergency’ for that island more than two months after our request. . What is embittered, in particular, is the indifference towards a small community which over the years has made a reason for living out of the feeling of welcome and the sense of sacrifice “, he concludes.
17:35 – In Sicily 44 new cases and no deaths
There are 44 new cases of Covid 19 registered in Sicily in the last 24 hours. Among these 7 are migrants. Cases that bring the current total positives on the island to 828. Of these, 775 are in home isolation while 53 are the cases that require hospital treatment with an increase compared to yesterday especially in intensive care where now there are 8 inpatients while 45 are in the ward in ordinary hospitalization. 3,129 new swabs were performed, bringing the overall swab total to almost 322,000. The total number of victims on the island remains at 286. Six are, however, the patients recovered. The division between the provinces shows 16 cases in Catania which is always the province with the highest number, 10 cases in Ragusa where, however, all 7 positive migrants of the day are recorded. There are also 8 cases in Caltanissetta, 6 in Palermo, 2 in Syracuse and 1 each in the provinces of Agrigento and Messina.
16:31 – Messina, medical video appeal on the use of masks
After the appeal of the Messina journalists to wear the mask, a campaign by the journalist Lilly La Fauci, which started on the Gazzetta del Sud website last August 2, a similar appeal is launched this time by 18 doctors and researchers from the Messina hospitals. “That of doctors – says Lilly La Fauci, creator and first testimonial of the project – is the category most exposed to the risk of contagion. Today masks are there for everyone. And using them is above all a civic duty for the protection of public health. we can afford to put our health system in crisis. Doctors and researchers do their part every day to help the country emerge from the emergency. But this battle can only be won by fighting all together “.
16:11 – Ragusa: cases on the rise, no one in resuscitation
The number of positives in the province of Ragusa always remains high, more than 60 and as part of a regional planning the patients are referred to the Covid hospital. Today two elderly patients from the Modica nursing home, hospitalized in the Reanimation division of the ‘Paternò Arezzo’ hospital have been transferred: one has passed to the Infectious Diseases division, while a woman has been transferred to Catania. “As agreed with the regional health department – says the general director of the ASP Ragusa, Angelo Aliquò – we concentrate the covid patients in a single structure (in Catania they have dozens of anesthetists) instead of blocking more hospitals. While Ragusa takes care of admitting non-Covid patients from Catania to Intensive Care “.
9:47 – The 63 swabs performed in Panarea are all negative
The 63 swabs performed in Panarea after the case of a tourist who tested positive for Covid-19 on her return to Naples at the end of the holiday were all negative. The case was reported by the ASP Campania. The swabs were ‘processed’ by the ASP of Messina after the ‘list’ of people who could have come into contact with the positive tourist was compiled.
7:10 – Swabs at the airport in Catania for those arriving from four countries
Starting from today, at Catania airport “the extraordinary health checks for tourists from Spain, Greece, Malta and Croatia will be launched inside the Etna airport, in compliance with the provisions of the Minister of Health and the subsequent ordinance of the President of the Sicilian Region “. This was announced by the Catania Airport Company, adding: “All non-residents and non-domiciled in Sicily from the 4 EU countries will have to undergo a nasopharyngeal swab, in addition to the normal health checks that have continued uninterrupted since February”. The commissioner ad acta per the Covid emergency, Giuseppe Liberti, established that the passengers in question will be disembarked on foot and directed inside Terminal C of Catania airport, to an area specially made available by SAC in the airside. Here, the staff which will be supported by the USCA, the Special Continuity Welfare Units of the ASP, will carry out the required checks. Different procedures for tourists and residents. According to the ordinance of the Minister of Health, tourists will be subjected to airport to the mandatory test, the results of which will be communicated by the ASP within 48 hours Alternatively, they can show a certificate d i have made it within 72 hours prior to arrival on the Island.
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