Outbreak in the Fitto committee, the contacts to be reconstructed are hundreds: carpet swabs throughout Puglia

The contacts to rebuild are hundreds. And in the field there are the six Asl from Puglia. Since the Prevention Department of the Local Health Authority of Salento confirmed the positivity of the Raffaele Fitto coronavirus, the health authorities have been working to close the chain of contagion as soon as possible and avoid the risk of an outbreak that for the figures involved only ) could surpass that of Polignano a Mare.

In Bari, the technicians of the sanitation company will proceed according to the concentric circle method, already proven in the case of the outbreak in the Siciliani Carni company in Palo del Colle and in the Sop in Polignano. Saturday, September 26. And the first to be put to the test will be the journalists, cameramen and local and national TV operators who on the night of Monday, September 21, attended Fitto’s press conference in the corridors of the Palace hotel, in which the candidate The governor of the Region in quota Fratelli d’Italia commented on the electoral defeat.

For this reason, the Prevention Department of Bari has already asked the Order of Journalists for the list of those who followed the last stages of the electoral campaign in the center-right headquarters. About fifty in all, according to an initial reconstruction. Then it will depend on the staff on duty in the same hotel, then on the Bari staff of the MEP. Several professionals close to Fitto have already asked to perform the test.

Our technicians are working to trace all the contacts, but as the electoral campaign has affected hundreds of people in different places, the collaboration of the citizens is very valuable to be quick ”. The imperative of the experts is: “Do it soon.”

“The Order of Journalists and the Press Association of Puglia thank the Department of Health of the Region and the ASL of Bari for the promptness with which they intervened to allow all the journalists who, in recent days, have followed the candidate Raffaele Fitto in the electoral campaign to be able to quickly submit to the hyssop. ”In a note signed by Bepi Martellotta, president of Assostampa,“ interested colleagues are invited to comply with the requirements ”and“ not to come into contact for professional reasons with other people and observe home isolation until the test result. “In the event of a positive result, it will be helpful to be available for contact tracing activities carried out by health facilities.”

And they let it be known that there is a dedicated triage today at the Hospital Di Venere in Bari, from 18 to 20 hours, for “all the colleagues registered in the electoral committee and who came into contact on the day of the electoral scrutiny with the candidate and the officials” . positive “, to” undergo the examination quickly “:” It will be necessary to show tax code, identity document and mobile phone number. Correspondents or colleagues not resident in Bari, present on that occasion, will be contacted by the ASL “.

In the regional Health Department, Odg and Assostampa also requested that the initiative be managed “shortly by all the other provincial ASLs, in order to allow colleagues who followed the candidate in press conferences held in the days leading up to the vote. to be able to run the exam quickly in a dedicated triage. “