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Of the 12,308 tests for coronavirus infection currently, 1,458 positive cases were recorded in Puglia. The positivity index jumps to 11.85% compared to 8.9 yesterday. There are 566 infected registered in the province of Bari, 73 in the province of Brindisi, 296 in the province of BAT, 189 in the province of Foggia, 71 in the province of Lecce, 246 in the province of Taranto, 10 residents outside the region, 7 cases in the province of unknown residence. 19 deaths were recorded: 8 in the province of Bari, 9 in the province of Foggia, 2 in the province of Lecce. There are currently 53,131 positive cases.
Since the beginning of the emergency, 996,863 tests have been carried out: 29,248 patients are cured, 53,131 are currently positive cases. The total number of positive Covid cases in Puglia is 84,663.
Meanwhile, the health advisor Pierluigi Lopalco confirmed the presence of a patient suffering from Covid with the English variant: “We have identified the first case of Covid from Apulia with a strain that has the so-called English variant. The result of this work is the result of a collaboration between the territorial services, the laboratory of the regional reference center Policlinico di Bari and the Zooprophylactic Institute of Puglia and Basilicata ”.
This is how the English variant of the Coronavirus is studied in Puglia. The expert: “Be careful, the little ones would be more vulnerable”
by Cenzio Di Zanni
“The hyssop was taken by an Apulian woman returning from the UK on December 19. 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 we have put in place is proving to be effective in quickly identifying and isolating these cases. 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 ”.
In the meantime, the selection continues for all returns from Great Britain according to national regulations. The ASL prevention departments of Bari and Brindisi have launched calls to carry out the molecular test on the 1,215 passengers returning from Great Britain and arriving at the airports of Bari and Brindisi.
Puglia, there are two positive cases from the UK in the last 14 days. Lopalco: “In total there were 1,215 arrivals”
The IT areas of the two ASLs have developed a system through which users, tracked through airline directories, receive an email or text message with a link inside that allows them to access a direct system of buffer reserve. , after completing the procedure with other personal information.
The swabs will continue on December 28, 29 and 30: in Bari from 14 to 18, in two places within the Fiera del Levante and in Brindisi from 9 to 13 on the Perrino hospital tour.
The screening for returns from Great Britain – reports a note from the Puglia Region – is in line with the provisions of the ordinance of the Ministry of Health whereby “persons who are in the national territory and who in the fourteen days Prior to the ordinance, they have stayed or traveled through the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, although asymptomatic, they are obliged to immediately notify their entry into the national territory to the Prevention Department of the health company responsible for the area and to undergo tests molecular or antigenic, for its realization. by means of a pad “.
