Erasmus outbreak: there are 60 infections. El Chalet: “The party’s over”

BOLOGNA. “If you were at the Chalet dei Giardini Margherita in Bologna on Saturday night, inside or outside the restaurant, you may have been in contact with a positive case of Covid19. For your safety and that of the people you know, reserve the tampon immediately. Here is the link to take the test from today on via Boldrini, for which a hundred people have booked in a few hours. At lunchtime yesterday, the Ausl Public Health makes a call to reach as many people as possible who celebrated in the park on the night of September 26. An appeal that rekindles attention to Erasmus students.

The party at the Chalet was organized by the directors in collaboration with “Esn Bologna”, an Erasmus association. In the “Woop!” A hundred people participated, not just foreigners. An identical event had taken place on the previous Saturday, September 19, two days before Piazza Scaravilli. The contagion among young university students who come from Spain, Germany, Denmark, etc. it has spread within these events. There is also concern about illegal night parties in the Margherita Gardens, during which of course the normal anti-Covid rules enforced by the locals are much more difficult to respect.

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Bologna, the Ausl notice: “If you spent the night at the Chalet, reserve the hyssop”

Enrico Troncossi, partner of the Chalet overlooking Lake Giardini, has been collaborating with the Ausl since yesterday morning to provide any useful information and ensures that he has taken all precautions to ensure safety: “Saturday night was a normal night. To be honest, horrible. We don’t dance because we can’t. The dance floor is lined with tables, like a pub. You enter only with a mask, the doormen look, you cannot drink at the counter but you have to sit at the table or on the sofas: one hundred people in five hundred square meters, more distance than that … We had other similar parties, but already on Sunday past we decided to close and leave only the bar open. Because whichever way you do you are wrong.

But that same night, “there were guys partying. It is really impossible to keep your distance there. Young people come in droves, they have bottles of alcohol and cases for music. They have parties every Wednesday and Saturday and do you know how many times we have been cleaning, throwing the butcher’s broom because we are ashamed? Not to mention the neighbors who complain to us. I advised the Ausls to also call them to make a swab. ‘

The two evenings – the officially organized and the abusive – could easily “contaminate” each other: it was enough to enter the Chalet (which was free) to have a cocktail or go to the bathroom. For this reason, yesterday the Ausl, with a post on Facebook, invited anyone inside or outside the club to come forward to get a swab.