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Another 324 cases across the region, nearly half in Bari province alone, out of a total of 5,300 swabs. The race for the coronavirus continues in Puglia, which since Friday, October 16, travels an average of 300 new infections per day and in less than a week has caused more than 2,000 cases, which means that the number of Apulians who fight with Covid is very close to 6,000. .
According to the latest bulletin from the regional working group, the contagion curve appears to have stabilized. But the rate at which the epidemic is spreading remains very high. So much so that the new regional Health Councilor, Pier Luigi Lopalco, told Repubblica that “if in the next 24 hours we cannot stop the growth of infections, on Thursday, October 22, we will have to draw a line and make strong decisions.”
The province of Bari continues to be the most affected by the epidemic in absolute terms; Foggia, on the other hand, is the territory of Apulia with the highest incidence of cases: there are 47 of them for every 10,000 inhabitants. The list of victims of the Covid is even greater: there have been two other deaths, both in the metropolitan area of Bari, since the beginning of the emergency almost 650 victims have been registered and more than 12,000 300 positive.
