Coronavirus, 143 new cases and three deaths in Puglia: the Polignano outbreak is worrying



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New cases and deaths related to covid-19 in Puglia. Among the new records, the first one linked to the outbreak of the Polignano a Mare fruit and vegetable company. There are 143 new positives compared to the 3,590 swabs performed, according to data published by the Region on the coronavirus in the September 8 bulletin.

The newly infected in Puglia are divided as follows, with the statements of the general directors of the provincial ASL: 74 in the province of Bari, “55 refer to the surveillance activity of the Prevention Department underway in a company in Polignano a Mare.


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Twelve of the cases found today are close contacts of positives already identified and under surveillance, 3 have returned from abroad and another 4 cases are being investigated to identify the origin and risk factors “; 8 in the province of Brindisi “, two are close contacts of already established cases. The third, however, is a person who has experienced symptoms attributable to a coronavirus infection and has undergone a swab on the recommendation of the GP. The others refer to the epidemiological surveillance activity in the Polignano a Mare (Ba) company “; 10 in the Bat,” 5 cases are close contacts of positives registered in the last days and 3 are symptomatic cases “.


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“An epidemiological investigation is being carried out by the Department of Prevention on another 2 cases”; 12 in the Foggia area, of which “3 are contacts of already known cases; 2 are people tracked during the screening activity; 2 are foreign citizens present in the provincial territory; 3 are symptomatic people identified thanks to the doctors’ report general “; 3 in the Lecce area, “one is a close contact of an already known case and two have been verified with the usual screening performed when accessing the emergency room”; 33 in Tarantino “, 16 correspond to the epidemiological investigation at the Polignano a Mare (Ba) company. Other cases refer to an RSA already subject to an outbreak; others are cases of positive contacts found after an epidemiological investigation by the Prevention Department. Others, finally, are positive cases that have been detected thanks to the triage action carried out by general practitioners or by the USCA. ”There is also one resident outside the region and two from a still unknown province.

Three new deaths (2 in the province of Bari and 1 in the province of Taranto) bring the total of victims to 567 (one death in recent weeks has been eliminated from the database), while 11 more cured raise the sum of the negative ones to 4,154. With these figures, the positives currently (total of cases less deaths and cured) amount to 1,321, of which 170 hospitalized.



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