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LECCE – To find such a low number of swabs registered in Puglia, today equal to 2,021, it is necessary to go back to the summer period, but the motivation is simple: with the end of the year, laboratory and administrative activities have been reduced to a minimum indispensable. Starting next week, with the possible exception of the Epiphany transition, the numbers will return to the ordinary for the fall period, about five times more today.
The positive results in Covid-19 were 344, 17.4 percent of the cases analyzed: only ten are the new cases reported in the province of Lecce. Ten deaths were also recorded, while the number of cured registered an increase of 435 units, enough to determine a slight decrease in the currently positive cases (101 less than yesterday’s figure), equal to 53,812. Compared to the previous days, however, the number of occupied beds increased, amounting to 1,642 (more than 29), of which 139 in intensive care (two more and eight new admissions).
Ongoing vaccination
In the late afternoon, the Councilor for Health Policies, Pier Luigi Lopalco, communicated the current data on the administration of the Covid vaccine: more than 2,800 doses were injected in 30 stations for a total of 3,481 since the beginning of the vaccination campaign. : According to the specific portal of the Ministry of Health, 13.5 percent of the supply from the Pratica di Mare sorting center was used in Puglia. The relationship is better than that recorded to date in regions such as Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, but also Lombardy and Liguria.
The age group most involved is that of 50 to 59, followed by that of 40 to 49. As is known, at this stage, the coverage of RSA health personnel and guests is underway. “A significant data – commented the representative of the regional government – if we take into account that we continue working even on Saturdays and Sundays, in the middle of the holiday period, guaranteeing the continuity of all other health and prevention activities”
Compared with the latest data released, on December 29, around 20 thousand new communications of readiness to undergo the vaccine were registered: “The response from health personnel is excellent,” said Lopalco, “adhesions reached 78,800 and we must add this figure. the audience of the guests of the Apulia RSA, about 22 thousand. We are dedicated to the administration and we also work on weekends, at full speed, in hospitals. In the late afternoon we will communicate the updated data of vaccinations already carried out in Puglia “.
At the Lecce Local Health Authority, vaccinations are ongoing at the Casarano Hospital, at the “Vito Fazzi” in Lecce (pictured, above), at the “Cardinal Panico” in Tricase, at the Galatina hospital, and at an RSA that is added to the two nursing homes already covered on December 27.
