Coronavirus, the epidemic spreads to old and new outbreaks in companies

There are 18 new positives for coronavirus in the area and the Forlì area. The data is contained in the daily update bulletin issued by the Prefecture on the updated data of Ausl Romagna. Therefore, there is a situation of growth of infections. At the provincial level, in fact, there are a total of 23 positivities, a slight increase compared to 22 on Friday. It is the Forlì situation that continues to receive the most attention, with the epidemic spreading in the workplace.

Two other positive aspects, in fact, go back to “Giuliani Arredamenti”, an outbreak that thus reaches 39 units connected to this workplace. However, it is not the only “cluster” in the companies: another 7 positives belong to another company in Forlì, while 3 are the cases connected in the last survey to another business outbreak. On the other hand, there is no positivity in the schools, neither among the students, nor on the part of the teachers. There was a positive case of return from France and another 5 of spread of the disease in the family due to disorder not related to companies.

The 18 cases in the Forlì area are distributed in 14 units in Forlì, 2 in Forlimpopoli, 1 in Castrocaro and 1 in Meldola. At the provincial level there are 23 cases, since 3 new positivities are added in Cesena, 1 in Cesenatico and one in Bagno di Romagna. Also at the local level there are also 37 recovered declared and zero deaths.

So in Emilia-Romagna

Across the region, cases increased by 167, reaching 35,743 positive cases since the start of the Coronavirus epidemic. The control and prevention activity continues: of all new cases, 66 were already in isolation at the time of the swab execution, 94 were identified in the context of known outbreaks. There are 19 new infections related to returns from abroad, for which the Region has provided two nasopharyngeal swabs during fiduciary isolation if they arrive from non-Schengen countries and one swab if they return from Greece, Spain, Croatia and Malta. and regions of France. The number of cases returning from other regions is 6. The average age of new positives on Saturday is 39.2 years.

Of the 167 more than on Friday, 75 are asymptomatic identified in the context of regional contact tracing and detection activities. Of the 75 asymptomatic, 41 were identified thanks to contact tracing, 27 through tests for risk categories introduced by the Region, 2 through serological tests. Regarding the situation in the territory, the highest number of cases is registered in the provinces of Bologna (32), Piacenza (24), Parma (11), Reggio Emilia (23), Modena (29), Rimini (16) and Forlì. (18). Unfortunately, there is a death. She is a woman from the province of Parma.

In Rimini there are 16 new cases, of which 4 asymptomatic and 12 with symptoms. 15 are in home isolation and 1 hospitalized not for covid, but for other pathologies. These are 6 men and 10. In detail, 12 cases arose as contacts of already known cases (of which 8 in the family, 3 friends and 1 in a patient who returned from Umbria). One case arose from a swab performed for hospital admission for another pathology and another 3 cases arose from symptoms. The swabs performed are 9,867 in addition to 2,715 serological tests. Active cases, that is, the number of actual patients, on Saturday is 4,790 (+113 compared to Friday).