Coronavirus, 80 new cases and 3 deaths in Puglia: highest number of infections since April 23

Many cases and even new deaths. There are 80 new positives compared to the 3,886 swabs made, according to data released by the Region on the coronavirus in the September 3 bulletin. It is the highest number of new cases in a daily communication since April 23, but with many more tests carried out than then and in the weeks leading up to the end of August, as the number of swabs increased.

The newly infected in Puglia are divided as follows, with the statements of the general directors of the ASL: 25 in the province of Bari, “in particular, of 20 close contacts of cases already known and under surveillance, 2 returns of Albania, 2 from Sardinia and 1 from Calabria “; 2 in the province of Brindisi, “a close contact of a case confirmed in recent days, while the second is still under investigation”; 12 in Bat: “One comes from Sardinia, one from Greece, one has been hospitalized, 8 are close contacts of positive cases registered in recent days, while the epidemiological investigations of the Department of Prevention are underway on a last case”; 13 from Foggiano, “4 contacts of cases already traced, 2 foreign citizens present in the provincial territory; 4 people identified during the pre-hospital detection activity; 2 people returned, respectively, from Malta and Umbria, one person symptomatic”; one from Leccese, “a resident of the province in which epidemiological investigations are carried out”; 24 of the province of Taranto, “one refers to a person hospitalized in the infectious department of the Moscati hospital, with specific symptoms; 3 are asymptomatic subjects already observed by the prevention department; 20 cases (among guests and internal staff) of an RSA, in the province “.

And on the case of the rsa of Marina di Ginosa, Asl dg Stefano Rossi specifies: “Following what was found in the RSA, the Prevention Department immediately activated the screening of all guests and employees of the structure. The situation was constantly monitored by specialists and ASL inspectors who monitor and reconstruct the contacts of the social relationships of positive subjects, in order to contain contagion “; Another 3 registered infected are 3 residents outside the region. From the counts of the last days, 2 cases were eliminated and they were placed among those that did not have an assigned province.

Three victims (one in the province of Bari, 2 in Lecce) bring the total number of deaths to 560, while 11 more cured bring the total of the negative to 4,078. With these figures, the current positives (total cases minus deaths and cured) amount to 986, including 154 hospitalized (6 of them are indicated in intensive care).