Coronavirus, 65 positive in Apulia: of the 56 only in the province of Bari, 29 returned from a bus trip to Calabria



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According to data from the Region on coronavirus corresponding to August 29, there are 65 new positives compared to the 2,753 swabs made, almost all in the province of Bari.

There are 56 residents in the Bari area, but many are linked to a single episode: “29 are citizens of Bari and its province who have returned from an organized bus trip to Calabria. – explains the general director of the ASL, Antonio Sanguedolce – Otto, on the other hand, are close contacts of already identified cases. On the other hand, the Prevention Department is investigating to reconstruct the chain of contagion and isolate new outbreaks “.

Three are from Bat, “of which 2 refer to positive cases registered in recent days. Only one case is symptomatic,” according to Alessandro Delle Donne, managing director of Asl; 5 are related to the province of Foggia: “These are 2 cases linked to outbreaks already known and limited; 2 people returned, respectively, from Sardinia and Campania; 1 symptomatic person, identified thanks to the family doctor’s report. – says the dg Asl, Vito Piazzolla – Active health surveillance has been organized for everyone. For new cases, not related to pre-existing outbreaks, the business hygiene service is rapidly rebuilding the chains of contagion “; the latest is from Lecce, “which has come into close contact with a positive from outside the region,” according to Asl CEO Rodolfo Rollo.

There are no deaths, the total of which since the beginning of the pandemic remains 556, while 1 more cured brings the sum of those negatively affected to 4,029. With these figures, the positives currently (total of cases less deaths and cured) amount to 748, including 117 hospitalized. It is the highest number of positives currently since June 7.
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