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Piedmont highlighted special. Second most affected by Covid since the start of the pandemic, after Lombardy, the Piedmont region tries to stop the exponential spread of the virus in its territory with new restrictions and with the arrival of quick tests which, in the intentions of Governor Alberto Cirio, will greatly improve the buffer situation.
The Covid situation in Piedmont
The cases of people who have so far tested positive for Covid in Piedmont are 48,118 (only on Wednesday 20 the jump was the most worrying, with +1799 cases of positives compared to the previous day. 54% of the positives, however, today he is asymptomatic.
Of the 1,799 cases, 108 came from RSA and 259 from school. There are 74 patients hospitalized in intensive care, 1,111 patients who are not in intensive care and 12,250 people in home isolation. The diagnostic swabs processed so far are 895,399, of which 481,163 were negative.
How rapid tests work
The good news is that in Piedmont it is now possible, in all public and private laboratories, order Rapid Antigen Test to find out if you are positive for Coronavirus.
The general supply of these tests, which must be used 12 to 15 minutes to give the result, it is 2.4 million pieces, the result of a tender launched in summer together with the Veneto Region: 1 million have already been bought (600 thousand by Dirmei and 400 thousand by health companies), the rest has already been ordered, explains Cirio.
The delivery of the first supply of one million tampons should be completed next week and 164 thousand tests have already been delivered in the area, divided as follows: 50 thousand to the City of Health of Turin, 19 thousand to the ASL Città di Torino, 2 thousand to ASL TO5 900 in TO3, 1,000 in San Luigi de Orbassano hospital, 59 thousand in Cuneo, 15 thousand in Asti, 13,500 in Alessandria, 2,000 in Biella, 1,600 in Novara, 300 in Vercelli, while deliver the first quantities for the province of the VCO In the next few days.
Who can make quick swabs?
New “super” rapid tests will be used to assess suspected Covid cases in hospitals and emergency rooms, by screening in schools and nursing homes and nursing homes, as much as on health personnel, police, judicial offices and prefectures.
Piedmontese Health Councilor Luigi Icardi also announced that an agreement is being “closed” to give to each doctor the possibility of performing the rapid test in the office, at the expense of the regional health system, in district clinics, in health homes or in aggregate clinics.
No sheets or applications are needed, Anyone can go and request the swab as an individual and that result will be inserted into the platform, because the rapid antigenic swab when it gives a negative result gives a certain result, equal to the molecular one.
Where to get them and costs
Equally important news is that the rapid test can also be requested by any citizen who wants to take it: from next week It can be booked at the pharmacy, at a cost of between 30 and 45 euros, which will then be sent by a nurse to the home, or to public and private laboratories recognized by the Region.
Special attention will be paid to Rsa and nursing homes: until the end of January every 15 days the 60 thousand guests and employees of each of the more than 800 Piedmont nursing homes will be subjected to the rapid test, thanks to the operational support of the health districts and protection. civil.
What about the positives and negatives?
If any of the people tested tests positive, will go into isolation and will be subjected to molecular swabs for confirmation of positivity, “with faster times because the laboratory system, thanks to rapid tests, will have to analyze fewer swabs,” says Cirio. “I can proudly say that we are among the first Regions in Italy to have prepared such a structured program.”
Who will fail instead, you will be able to resume your normal activity and the result will be published on the Covid platform. “Despite all the difficulties of an exponential growth of infections, today we managed to isolate the positives with an average of 3/5 days, in February we did it in 18”, added Cirio. Now the situation is to be expected to improve.
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