The swabs of the day were 5,427. No deaths in the past 24 hours. The total of positives in the region rises to 7,868
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There are 100 new positives in Campania, according to data from the Campania Region Crisis Unit. Of these, 5 cases come from Sardinia and another 16 are related to returns to the region.
Meanwhile, teachers and school staff lined up today in Naples to undergo the rapid serological test for covid-19. From the early hours of the morning, dozens of teachers and Ata staff voluntarily decided to join the initiative waiting for their turn in the Palabarbuto car park where the large mobile unit of the Campania Region is located.
Meanwhile, the governor of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, confirmed that he will sign the postponement of the beginning of the school year. (ALL UPDATES – CONTAGION MAPS AND GRAPHS)
19:02 – Negative buffer, the four landed in quarantine on the boat
The four people placed in isolation on a yacht a few days ago in Ischia can return home, after the positivity to Covid-19 found in a girl who was spending the holiday on board the boat with her boyfriend and family. The second swab carried out on the young woman gave a negative result, as did all the occupants of the yacht. The 16-meter boat is moored at the Marina del Capitello in Lacco Ameno. There was therefore no contagion and consequently the ASL allowed the four to leave the boat on which they had to remain isolated for over a week and return to their home on the island.
18:18 – In Campania today 100 new positives
There are 100 new positives in Campania, according to data from the Campania Region Crisis Unit. Of these, 5 come from Sardinia and another 16 are connected to returns to the region. To the 100 new positives today are added 83 positives (returns and non-Campania citizens) out of 2,139 swabs relating to the last few days and which were awaiting processing. The swabs of the day were 5,427. There were no new deaths. The total of positives in Campania rises to 7,868. The total number of swabs: is 454 thousand, while the total number of deceased is 878. There are two recovered patients.
16:43 – Fdi, record costs per infected person in Campania
The deputy of Fdi Edmondo Cirielli announced a question to the Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri and to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza on the expenses of the Campania Region to deal with the health emergency from Covid-19. “According to the data of the National Anti-Corruption Authority – says Cirielli – the regional administration of Campania, from 1 March to 30 April 2020, spent 76 thousand 308 euros for each infected person (they were 4.423). A disproportionate figure that saw the our reason to exceed, in terms of expenditure, even Lombardy which, in the same period, recorded 75,000 732 infections, spending just 5,000 .178 euros for each infected person “. The deputy of the Brothers of Italy asks for “an immediate intervention by the Court of Auditors to clarify how the citizens’ money is spent by De Luca, especially now that the number of infections has returned to rise”.
14:37 – Positive employee, closed Sert di Torre Annunziata
Positive at Covid-19 an employee of the drug addiction service (Sert) of Torre Annunziata (Naples). This was communicated by the press office of the mayor of the Vesuvian city, Vincenzo Ascione, who cites sources of ASL Napoli 3 Sud. “The health facility in via delle Vigne – reads a note – has been temporarily closed and will be reopened at end of the sanitation intervention. The person who tested positive – underlines the press office of the mayor of Torre Annunziata – who is not a resident in the city of Oplontina, was immediately subjected to the quarantine regime, as were his closest contacts ”.
13:36 – To stem contagions Phlegraean mayors have new measures
The curve of infections from Covid-19 continues to grow in the Phlegraean area: 11 cases in Pozzuoli, 4 in Monte di Procida, 3 in Quarto in the last two days. A situation that worries the mayors of the area, some of whom have already passed to implement restrictive measures. The most drastic Giuseppe Pugliese who in Monte di Procida, a Covid-free municipality since mid-June, recorded four cases in a few hours. Three infected people are part of the group of vacationers returning from abroad and Sardinia, the fourth case concerns a doctor on staff at the hospital of Pozzuoli, Santa Maria delle Grazie. It was the healthcare professional himself who gave the news as soon as he learned of the positivity after the periodic control procedure to which he undergoes. He is in fiduciary home isolation pending a new response. Pugliese has issued an ordinance requiring the use of masks even outdoors for 24 hours, only children under the age of 6 are exempted, has suspended all public events, educational and didactic activities sine die and postponed the resumption of teaching activities in private schools.
In Pozzuoli, the mayor, Vincenzo Figliolia, called a summit earlier this week with the Municipal Operational Center of the Civil Protection to examine the health situation and evaluate the measures to be taken for the surge in infections. In the month of August in the largest of the Phlegraean municipalities there are 46 infected, all from the return of holidays. Such a large number had not been registered even in the first critical period of the epidemic. In Pozzuoli there have been 152 cases since 1 March with 48 infected, almost all in fiduciary home isolation, 91 recovered and 13 dead.
12:38 – In Naples teachers lined up for serological tests
Teachers and school staff lined up today in Naples to undergo the rapid serological test for covid-19 as part of a national screening organized by the Order of Family Doctors. From the early hours of the morning, dozens of teachers and Ata staff voluntarily decided to join the initiative waiting for their turn in the Palabarbuto car park where the large mobile unit of the Campania Region was parked. ” Today’s screening – explained Silvestro Scotti president of the Order of Doctors of Naples – responds to a need of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school so far not supported and the number of people who came shows that the initiative is was well appreciated “.” The operational model followed today – underlines Scotti – can also be considered a field test for the next anti-flu vaccination campaign where we expect a certainly greater turnout. Today we plan to submit around one and a half million teachers throughout Italy – concludes Scotti – but I want to clarify that the test is not a diagnostic test but is a screening to assess the susceptibility and incidence standards of Covid disease with respect to a population, in today’s case is the scholastic one, which in anticipation of the next reopening of the institutes, must be kept under observation “.
10:10 – In Torre del Greco positive elderly hospitalized
He was hospitalized for another pathology, tested positive for Covid-19. It is a 75-year-old man living in Torre del Greco. This was communicated by the Municipal Operations Center convened in permanent session at the Baronial Palace and chaired by the mayor Giovanni Palomba. In the Vesuvian city, 29 people are infected: the other 28 are all asymptomatic and are in home isolation.
8:32 – In Campania 119 new infections
There are 119 positives in Campania in the last 24 hours, of which 18 cases from Sardinia, 11 from abroad and 21 related to returns out of a total of 6,841 total swabs. The total of positives rises to 7,768 out of 449,451 swabs. A victim is registered. The total number of deaths in Campania reaches 448. Five healed of the day for a total of 4,476 (of which 4,471 completely healed and five clinically recovered).
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