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Milan, November 13, 2020 – The second wave of Coronavirus Yesterday, Thursday, November 12, 37,978 new cases were registered in Italy and 636 deaths. Lombard’s data, however, speak 9,291 new infected.
“The 90% of the positives are asymptomatic today. or paucisymptomatic, and therefore does not need hospitalization “, so” patients are sent, through the general practitioner, to local Covid centers, which now number 33, “said the Councilor for Well-being of the Lombardy Region Giulio Gallera speaking this morning at the Health Commission at Palazzo Pirelli, updating epidemiologists on the situation. These centers, explains the commissioner, are a fundamental axis of the “strategy in the territory, which is very important.” “In the territorial Covid centers that we have activated,” added the commissioner, “doctors, nurses and specialists such as pulmonologists or specialists in infectious diseases work” and are equipped with the necessary instruments for diagnosis.
Offering the numbers, Gallera specified that I The territorial centers of Covid at this time “are 33, of which 14 in the metropolitan city of Milan, 3 in Ats Brianza, 3 in Brescia, 3 in Insubria, 3 in the mountain area, 7 in the Po Valley and the rest are activating them, finding staff ”. of increasingly strategic places for territorial “anti-contagion” activity along with the other two tools, which are remote monitoring and Usca. The latter are today 203 with 422 doctors, “a small number in this phase, because they include graduate and unqualified doctors and therefore they are young children, who when there is competition for the specialization school, they focus on that.” The Usca, finally stated Gallera, “is in charge of going home as directed by general practitioners, doing the swabs, going to the Rsa, and providing support to other tampon centers, so they are a particularly precious reality.”
But what does asymptomatic positive mean?
Be be asymptomatic positive for the new Coronavirus it means having contracted the virus, but exhibits no symptoms of Covid-19 disease. THE symptoms consist in fever, cough, malaise, runny nose, headache, sore throat, bronchitis and, in some cases, shortness of breath. Therefore, you may be infected but have no symptoms.
Coyou discover that you are asymptomatic?
The only way is to undergo the tampon. However, this procedure is only done in those with symptoms. Currently, in short, people infected with the new Coronavirus but asymptomatic cannot be discovered, except in special cases.
Who are the presymptomatic?
Once the infection has occurred, there is an incubation period, a phase, that is, in which the virus is already present in the body, but the symptoms have not yet developed. Then there are the paucisymptomatic, that is, those who develop very mild symptoms.
Are asymptomatic people contagious?
Even without getting sick, those who are positive for Sars-Cov 2 can infect others. Some reports have indicated that people without symptoms can transmit the virus, especially in the early stages of the illness, particularly two days before symptoms develop. For this reason, it is even more important to follow the rules to stay safe: stay home if you have a fever or respiratory symptoms; respect the safe distance between ourselves and other people; wear the mask when around (from 6 years if well tolerated); raise your hands; often or use an alcohol solution.
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