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BARI – The epidemiological incidence figures in the region continue to alarm health workers, so much so that the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders and the Medical Order of Bari, Filippo Anelli, has once again called for restrictive measures for Puglia. “The element that worries even more”, says Anelli, “is that the numbers of Puglia are in contrast with what is happening at national level”.
And regarding initiatives to address the health emergency, the governor Michele Emiliano Today he has met with the representatives of the pharmaceutical company “Pfizer” to take stock of the forecasts of times and methods of administration of the Covid vaccine, once the authorization phase at European and global level has been completed. The distribution will be organized at the European level and for Italy the supervision will be carried out by the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency, Domenico Arcuri.
The meeting was also attended by the head of the health policy department, Vito Montanaro, and the regional manager of civil protection, Mario Lerario. For Apulia, distribution centers will be identified to ensure the “cold chain” that must be ready by the second week of January to cover the part of the population, which will be decided according to a national protocol that will be identified in Parliament.
“The Region will do its part to ensure the best success in the distribution and administration of the vaccine,” says President Emiliano, “in which many hopes are placed to begin to overcome the emergency phase.”
The chain of infections in the province of Lecce is always under observation, especially in the school environment where the mayors of Maglie and Leverano have issued new precautionary orders for the closure of some school complexes, after the confirmation of some positive cases, to ensure adequate sanitation operation and contact tracing by local health authorities.
Last night the mayor of Maglie, Ernesto Toma (that together with the other mayors of the health districts of Maglie, Poggiardo and Martano had expressed opposition to the option of suspending the intensive care activities of the first level hospital in Scorrano then reactivated by the ASL in these hours), had announced that he had signed an order for the closure of some kindergarten complexes for Mondays and Tuesdays. The provision to sanitize the environments was necessary, for precautionary purposes, after the positive communication of some employees of the company that provides the school cafeteria service. The complexes affected are those of via Cubaju, via Diaz, corso Cavour, via Lanoce and via Toma.
Also in Leverano, tonight, the mayor Marcello Rolli, ordered the closure of the school complex of the comprehensive school “Geremia Re” in via Otranto.
After a discussion with the director of the comprehensive school who reported the confirmed positivity to covid-19 of an assistant supporting a disabled student of the elementary school in the plexus of Via Otranto, the mayor ordered the closure of the office. of primary and lower secondary school to allow extraordinary sanitation activities and avoid the risk of new infections. The school will be closed from tomorrow until December 11 unless it is expanded.
