Coronavirus, the official newsletter of the ASP of Reggio Calabria

The activity of the competent authorities continues to monitor and stop the Coronavirus infection in the national and local territory. The Reggio Calabria ASP Health Department provided the latest updated bulletin that takes stock of the situation in the province of Reggio Calabria, which with an exceptionally low number of positives and above all hospitalized compared to the number of residents (556 thousand people live in the Reggio area), continues to be the least affected in the whole Italian and European territory.

Patients in “Home health care“In fact, they are in total 306, with daily monitoring of their conditions by the Hygiene and Public Health Service and the Special Units of Continuity of Care in collaboration with Family Physicians and Pediatricians of Free Choice. Among them, several dozen are immigrants from the tent city of San Ferdinando and from the landings of the last days in the Ionian: all isolated and therefore managed in complete security. Another 50 are all linked to the group of Sinopoli me Sant’Eufemia. The rest are scattered throughout the provincial territory, without outbreaks of special concern.

The hospitalized, however, hardly remain 14, everyone in the room: the intensive care is completely empty. There are no patients in serious condition and 96% positive in the Reggio area (306 your 320) is completely asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic, that is, with mild symptoms.

Subjects placed in “Home Quarantine” are in total 1,109. These 1,109 people they are not positive: is about close contacts of positives, placed in Isolation for preventive and precautionary purposes.. They are people who do not have symptoms or swabs, and according to new Dpcm They will have to remain in quarantine no more than 14 days but for 10. If they do not develop symptoms within 10 days of quarantine, they will be free to return to normal life because the incubation period will have passed and they will not develop the disease. In other countries of the world (France me Britain) the quarantine has even been reduced to 7 days, because the percentage of people who develop symptoms of the disease after a week of infection is very low. Those who do get sick, on the other hand, notice it within days of infection.

The Health Department of the ASP still recommends a vote to the public in case of suspicious symptoms not to go to the emergency room, but to contact their family doctor, the pediatrician, or contact the free number 1500 of the Ministry of Health or the free number 800 76 76 76 of the Calabria region.