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The coronavirus is spreading rapidly within the Mission Hope and Charity of Palermo, which is home to nearly a thousand homeless people. And so, the four structures of the mission of the lay Franciscan Biagio Conte, for years a point of reference for the poor of the city, have been declared today Red zone with an order from the President of the Sicilian Region Nello musumeci. A measure that comes after thirty confirmed cases among the guests of the center, mostly foreigners. The promiscuity of the structure is favoring a spread of contagion that for the authorities requires a drastic intervention.
The decision was made later a summit with the regional health advisor Ruggero Razza and the general manager of the ASP of Palermo Daniela Faraoni, who examined the progress of the infection and especially the dangerous promiscuity within the structures. The critical situation was accentuated by the refusal of almost all the subjects housed to be transferred to the Covid-Hotel San Paolo to comply with the mandatory quarantine (only three accepted the transfer).
The virus in recent days has begun to circulate rapidly in Sicily and Palermo in particular. Four municipal kindergartens have already been closed and the possibility of hospitalizing Covid patients in other provinces is foreseen pending the availability of other dedicated beds in the capital. At the Mission centers now, only health and social-health workers and personnel involved in assisting with emergency-related activities will be allowed in and out.
To ensure the effectiveness of the ordinance the President of the Region must be the policeman, outside the structures. In the four Mission Centers already yesterday, technical groups from the Health Company were sent to verify compliance with the prevention measures and four teams from Usca to subject the seven hundred guests to a quick swab.
Today the mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando had written a letter to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and the President of the Musumeci region noting the situation of the Mission: In the largest structure, which houses some 600 foreign nationals, particularly serious, with a positive rate of more than 60 percent of the swabs performed, aggravated by the difficult if not impossible condition regarding the removal and even less the isolation of the asymptomatic positive. In progress, the tested positives are 32 of the 50 swabs for which the result was obtained.
Orlando called for an intervention to avoid the serious health risk. Shortly after theregional government ordinance. Yesterday in Sicily there were 179 new cases of Covid (37 are migrants in hotspots), seventy in Palermo. Currently infected people on the island are more than two thousand and fifteen patients in intensive care.
September 19, 2020 (change September 19, 2020 | 14:44)
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