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LECCE – The Christmas Eve data on a regional scale, reported in today’s bulletin on Covid-19 infections, records a slight jump in cases of contagion, taking the positivity index to 11.85 compared to 8.9 detected yesterday. The overall estimate also includes an increase in the number of tampons made, 1,816 more than in the previous report.
The president of the Region, Michele Emiliano, based on information from the director of the health promotion department, Vito Montanaro, announced that today 12,308 tests for covid-19 infection were registered and exactly 1,458 positive cases were registered. with a rate of just over 11.8 percent, almost 3 percentage points higher than that registered yesterday, but it is an audience of 10,492 tests performed.
The new data reported by the regional bulletin has brought the number of current infected subjects in Puglia to 53,131 units. The cases of positivity registered in the province of Lecce are today 71 compared to 90 yesterday and with two deaths detected among the 19 total (the others are distributed between the eight in the province of Bari and the nine in the province of Foggia) . There are 566 registered cases in the province of Bari, 73 in the province of Brindisi, 296 in the province of Bat, 189 in the province of Foggia and 246 in the province of Taranto. Ten residents outside the region and seven cases from the province of unknown residence.
“Among other things, we have identified the first Apulian covid case with a strain that has the so-called English variant. The result of this work is the result of a collaboration between local services, the laboratory of the polyclinic of Bari, a regional reference center and the zooprophylactic institute of Puglia and Basilicata “, says the health counselor. Pier luigi lopalco, “The hyssop was taken by a woman from Apulia who was returning from the UK on December 19 last. The so-called English variant arouses our attention from a scientific point of view, but for the moment it should not concern citizens, since it is first necessary to check whether it is actually more contagious or not than the variants that are already in circulation. The surveillance system that we have put in place ”concludes Lopalco,“ is proving effective to identify and isolate these cases promptly. Molecular surveillance is always useful to analyze the dynamics of virus spread. In Apulia, for example, from the end of the summer the Spanish population was the predominant one, introduced into the region by Apulian tourists returning from Spain ”.
According to the data reported by the bulletin today, the number of patients cured in the region is 29,248, 1,180 more than yesterday. The currently active cases go back slightly and are currently 53,131 across Puglia. There are 51,537 people in home isolation, almost 97 percent of those infected. Since the beginning of the emergency, a total of 996,863 tests have been carried out to determine whether the coronavirus is positive or not. The patients admitted to dedicated wards today are 1,592 (2.8 percent), three less than yesterday. Of these, there are currently 174 patients admitted to intensive care. The total number of deaths is 2,284. Since the beginning of the pandemic to date, the total number of positive COVID cases in Puglia has been 84,663.
In the meantime, the selection continues for all returns from Great Britain according to national regulations. The prevention departments of the Asl of Bari and Brindisi have initiated the calls to carry out the molecular test to the 1,215 passengers returning from Great Britain and arriving at the airports of Bari and Brindisi. The screening for returns from Great Britain complies with the provisions of the Ministry of Health order according to which “persons who are in the national territory and who in the fourteen days prior to the ordinance have remained or passed through the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, although asymptomatic, are obliged to immediately report the entry into the national territory to the Prevention Department of the local health authority and undergo molecular or antigenic tests, which will be carried out by means of a swab “.
