Coronavirus, new cluster in La Spezia: 41 people in hospital, 5 in intensive care, 1 death

Mandatory mask throughout the province of La Spezia, 24 hours a day, in all places, including outdoors, until September 13: the president of the Region Giovanni Toti signed an ordinance, as soon as the new data from the contagions in the province of La Spezia. “We have decided to enact this ordinance so as not to reach a critical point from which we are still far away,” said the president of the Region, Toti.

Of the 95 more positive cases, in Liguria, compared to the previous day, the number of infections in La Spezia, in Asl5, which increases the total number of hospitalized patients that grows to 61 in the entire region, 41 only in Asl5 in Spezia, with 5 more intensive therapies and even in the La Spezia area, the death of an 89-year-old man occurred at the San Bartolomeo de Sarzana hospital. “Most of the new infections have non-worrisome clinical conditions,” Toti explains. President Toti confirms instead that in the rest of the region, “the pressure on the other hospitals is minimal with only 2 other intensive therapies in the San Martino hospital.” To unleash the various chains of infections that generated the cluster, explains the mayor of La Spezia, Pierluigi Peracchini, a party in Tuscany: “The infections would have developed in the South American community, with subjects who may have transmitted the virus in various work settings and on public transport and places “.

The Regional Health Councilor, Sonia Viale: “Our system is very committed to reopening schools, I assure you that we are organizing groups to support school complexes. The system does not stop monitoring limited groupings, today we have 2700 swabs so which makes it clear that the system can increase tracing, which is essential to contain the virus. Liguria has an Rt below 1, but let’s not lower our guard. The entire health system, not just La Spezia, must follow the rules: mask after 6 pm, hand washing and safe distance always “.