the newsletter of September 15, 2020

Tampon registration in Puglia. 4,677 tests have been performed in the last 24 hours: 76 of them tested positive for Coronavirus. In the province of Brindisi, according to the data provided by the Region through the epidemiological bulletin, there are no new infections. The 76 positive tests are distributed as follows: 34 in the province of Bari, 5 in the province of BAT, 26 in the province of Foggia, 1 in the province of Lecce, 10 in the province of Taranto. One death was recorded in the province of Taranto. Since the beginning of the emergency, 356,216 tests have been carried out: 4,237 are recovered patients; 1776 are currently positive cases.

The total of positive cases of Covid in Puglia is 6,586, divided as follows: 2,521 in the province of Bari; 525 in the province of Bat; 741 in the province of Brindisi; 1,555 in the province of Foggia; 723 in the province of Lecce; 470 in the province of Taranto; 50 attributed to residents outside the region; 1 province of unknown residence. The APL prevention departments have activated all the procedures for the acquisition of anamnestic and epidemiological information, with the aim of tracing close contacts.

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Statements of the general directors of the ASL

Declaration of Dg Asl Bari, Antonio Sanguedolce: “Today the Prevention Department registered 34 new positives for the Sars-Cov2 virus. The positives found refer to 23 close contacts related to isolated cases under surveillance, 1 return from Greece, 1 from Egypt, 2 from Trentino and 7 cases in which adequate epidemiological controls are being carried out. “

Declaration of Dg Asl Bt, Alessandro Delle Donne: “There are 5 cases registered today in the province of Bat. Epidemiological investigations by the Department of Prevention are ongoing on 3 cases, while the other two cases are certainly attributable to positive cases registered in recent days. “

Declaration of Director of the Asl Foggia, Vito Piazzolla: “In the last 24 hours in the province of Foggia there have been 26 new cases of positive people in Covid 19. These are: 15 contacts of already known cases; 8 symptomatic people; 2 people identified during the pre-admission screening activity; 1 return from Spain “.

Declaration of Dg Asl Lecce, Rodolfo Rollo: “The case registered today by the Department of Prevention refers to a resident of the province of Lecce subjected to a detection swab at the time of accessing the emergency room where he arrived for other pathologies.”

Statement Dg Asl TarantoStefano Rossi: “Of the 10 positive cases of Covid in Taranto, some are attributable to patients visited by the triage of general practitioners; others due to contacts, with positive relatives, belonging to the group of workers employed in a company in the province of Bari; two are tourists from the north on vacation in an Ionian spa ”.