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Three new coronavirus outbreaks in Liguria. To make it known during the usual evening press point on Friday, December 11, 2020, it was the President of the Region, Giovanni Toti, who began by explaining that “the decline in covid in Liguria continues, confirming the trend of recent weeks.
Ultimately, the current outlook seems comforting, hospitalized people are decreasing, 887 according to Friday’s bulletin, but deaths are still in double digits (25 in the last bulletin). And the high number of deaths nationwide, according to Health Minister Pierpaolo Sileri, is a good reason not to “reopen.” Even the Higher Institute of Health warns that the number of new cases of coronavirus “continues to be significant although it is decreasing.”
Coronavirus, newsletter for December 12, 2020
In the next few hours, the government should make a decision on possible exceptions to travel between municipalities at Christmas, San Esteban and New Year’s Eve, but the ball could go to parliament, as hypothesized by Prime Minister Conte, who proposed a collegiate decision on the issue.
Confirmation that the virus continues to circulate is given by the three clusters that have emerged in recent days in Liguria, none in the province of Genoa. This is how the health system responded according to individual cases.
San Paolo Hospital in Savona
On December 7, an asymptomatic patient tested positive in the discharge swab at the Medicine Service. Another positivity, again in an asymptomatic patient at discharge, occurred on December 8. Asl2 immediately ordered the extraordinary sanitation of the hospitalization rooms, operating rooms and common areas and, according to the Director of Infectious Diseases, also the performance of a ‘screening’ swab on all patients admitted to the hospital. . The screening activity revealed 12 asymptomatic positive patients, for which it was necessary to transfer to the hospitalization areas reserved for covid patients, preventive isolation of patients who tested negative on the screening swab, and activation of home isolation for given patients. high in the previous days. All personnel working in the department underwent molecular diagnostics. As a precautionary measure, pending the result of molecular swabs from the operators, hospital admissions were temporarily suspended.
Suarez protected residence in Calizzano
From the investigations carried out, it is assumed that the index case is a physiotherapist from the facility. On December 7, the facility’s 60 guests and 32 operators underwent molecular swabs. 17 guests were positive while, regarding the operators, 2 were indeterminate and 2 were positive. On December 10, 6 guests accessed the PS of the Santa Corona hospital and, later, were admitted to the Infectious Diseases Service of the Albenga Hospital. Also, some guests have been transferred or are waiting to be transferred to the dedicated “RSA Noceti” facility. On Friday, December 11, all guests who tested negative during molecular research were rapidly antigen swabbed: the positivity of three previously negative hosts was highlighted.
On December 17, molecular control swabs will be done on the 10th day. On Saturday, December 12, the intervention of Gsat doctors is scheduled for visits to the elderly and support to staff.
Sant’Andrea Hospital in La Spezia
Given the finding of positivity in 2 patients in the internal medicine service of the Sant’Andrea Hospital, the patients were transferred from Sant’Andrea to San Bartolomeo di Sarzana. All staff (doctors and wards) were swabbed.
