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A sequence of ambulances that cross the desert country at night, with flashing lights on, to pick up the elderly guests of a retirement home where the Coronavirus has already left four victims in a few days. This is the scene that the inhabitants of Sambuca di Sicilia had to witness from the windows, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, which in a few weeks went from being a Covid-free municipality during the entire period of the pandemic to a “red zone “. In fact, since yesterday afternoon, all the access roads have been attended by the police after the decision taken by the President of the Region that has effectively “shielded” the country. One way of trying to immediately deal with an outbreak with 64 positives detected, of about 6,000 inhabitants, in addition to the four old people who have already died, most of them concentrated in that retirement home. The cluster was discovered thanks also to the decision of the mayor, Leo Ciaccio, who in recent days had launched the campaign for a free carpet screening among all employees of the Municipality, public offices and businesses. And the results of the swabs revealed that the virus had also reached Sambuca. And it was always the mayor who yesterday afternoon urged the transfer of the elderly in the most serious conditions among the thirty patients of the RSA, all positive along with the 14 operators who treat them. “We risk having other victims, there is no more time to lose,” the mayor told the president of the Musumeci Region, who immediately responded to the appeal. In the afternoon, arrival of ambulances and health personnel with biocontainment equipment that began to transfer the first elderly to hospitals and other Covid centers on the island. And so, the long procession of emergency vehicles towards the exit of the city, recalled for a moment the images of army trucks lined up in the streets of Bergamo.
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