Coronavirus, a new jump in infections in Puglia: 631 cases and 10 deaths. Alarm for Bari

The Regional Minister of Health, Pier Luigi Lopalco, once again asks for an effort on the part of citizens, especially in interpersonal relationships: “The daily number of infections in a slight and continuous increase is consequently accompanied by pressure on the Regional Service of Health, both in the territorial services and in the hospital system. Every effort is important to stop the growth of infections. In the coming weeks we must reduce our social contacts to the minimum necessary “.

Those infected are divided as follows: 284 in the province of Bari, 32 in the province of Brindisi, 101 in the province of Bat, 123 in the province of Foggia, 36 in the province of Lecce, 60 in the province of Taranto , 6 attributed to residents outside the region. This distribution also includes 11 cases found in recent days and still no province assigned.

The 10 deaths (6 in the province of Bari, 1 in the province of Brindisi, 2 Foggia, 1 in the province of Taranto) bring the total number of victims to 656, while with 51 more cured the negative ones amount to 5,977. With these figures, the positives currently (total of cases less deaths and cured) reach 7,398, of which 575 hospitalized.

“The evidence of rapidly increasing cases with a national Rt of 1.5 in its average value and significantly above 1 indicates a very serious general and generalized situation in the national territory with the risk of important short-term critical problems in numerous Italian regions / AP “. The Ministry of Health and the ISS in their weekly report photograph the Italian situation in a worrying way. The reproducibility rate of the Apulian infection (Rt) calculated on symptomatic cases is increasing and reaches 1.52, equal to the national one, and a mean value between the intervals 1.84 and 2.15.

“It is essential that the population reduce all opportunities for contact with people outside their own home when they are not strictly necessary and that they stay at home as long as possible – they write again – This week the number of outbreaks in which transmission could be increasing. occurred in the school setting, even if intra-school transmission continues to appear limited (3.5% of all new outbreaks in which the context of transmission has been reported). However, it is clear that extracurricular and perischool activities can constitute a triggering of transmission chains when the foreseen prevention measures are not respected “.