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An outbreak of coronavirus was discovered in a nursing home in Marsicovetere (Potenza) where 22 cases of positivity were identified among the elderly and eight among operators and where a woman in her 90s who died today in the «San Carlo» of Potenza, became in the 29th victim of covid-19 in Basilicata since the start of the health emergency.
The news was released by the President of the Region, Vito Bardi, with a message in which he specified that it is “a fact that should not scare us.” Among the 30 positives of the RSA – specified the health department of the Region- ”. only one is symptomatic and has been hospitalized, all the others are asymptomatic. Since last August 1, when “when the first positive cases of return occurred”, 227 positive cases were discovered in Basilicata (13 of which were hospitalized in the infectious diseases ward and one in intensive care “, that is, on the 6th, about 5 percent of all positives, below the national average, which is about ten percent “).
In the message to the Lucans, Bardi stressed that since the beginning of August “the number of tampons has increased by more than 50 percent” and defined “it is quite clear that until the vaccine arrives we must continue to maintain” prevention that everything the world knows.
“The Region has never lowered its guard and follows closely monitoring, control and prevention”, a field in which it has become “a virtuous region that is taken as an example at the national level of how we have fought the pandemic” Bardi concluded.
Yesterday 519 swabs were tested in Basilicata and coronavirus infections continue to grow. In fact, there are 47 new positives, 28 of which in a nursing home in Marsicovetere (Pz). The other infections are 4 in Potenza, which are part of the same family unit and of which we had already given news yesterday afternoon, 3 in Venosa, 2 in Altamura with swabs made in Matera, and one respectively in the municipalities of Tramutola , Pescopagano. Melfi, Pietragalla, Rapolla, San Severino Lucano, Lagonegro, Lauria, Matera, plus a Calabrian that he rubbed in Lagonegro.
The news also comes of the death of a 93-year-old man hospitalized in the San Carlo di Potenza hospital due to pneumonia. The old woman was one of the patients at the Marsicovetere nursing home.
The mayor of Marsicovetere Marco Zipparri stated that “the chain of contacts of the relatives who will be Hispanic in the next few hours is being elaborated. Home isolation was also provided to negative operators. The epidemiological chain must be interrupted and therefore, together with the Health Authorities and the Basilicata Region, it was decided to isolate the structure, guaranteeing essential services.
Prudence is necessary and everyone’s sense of responsibility is essential in the face of a foreseeable and unfortunately constant increase in infections at all levels. “
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