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The number of positives in Covid 19 in Sicily continues to increase. In the last 24, the new confirmed cases are 96 (yesterday they were 90) compared to the 5,498 swabs processed. (The Region specifies that of the 96 new positive cases currently, two are migrant hosts in the Lampedusa hotspot.) This is the main data contained in the regular bulletin published by the Ministry of Health.
The number of hospitalized patients with symptoms increased, from 155 to 173 although intensive care patients decreased from 16 to 14. The total number of hospitalized people is 187 people and the number of patients in home isolation marks a sharp increase: yesterday 1,817 and today 1,856. The total positives currently breaks through four thousand, reaching 2,043. The discharged / cured since the beginning of the pandemic are 3,231 and 295 deaths.
Regarding the division of new cases in the Sicilian territory, the most affected province is Palermo with 26 positives. Then we find Trapani with 24, Catania with 15, Syracuse with 9. And Messina and Agrigento with 8, Ragusa 4, Enna 2. There are no new infections located in Caltanissetta and its province.
Fear between school desks
The Melograno nursery in via Monte San Calogero has been closed as a precaution. The measure was activated after a parent tested positive for Coronavirus. This is the third Nile kindergarten closed by the municipality after Lark and Filastrocca. There has also been the closure of the entire municipal complex of Largo Pozzillo, which includes the operational unit of the multifunctional counter, the Borgo Nuovo decentralized station and the municipal library after a positive swab from an employee.
Closed nest “Melograno” and municipal seat in Borgo Nuovo
Covid in prisons
After twenty Penitentiary Police officers tested positive for Covid and it was decided to block the translation of the Pagliarelli detainees, skipping all the trials in which the accused should have been accompanied to court to participate in the hearings, the regional councilor alla Salute , Ruggero Razza, met with representatives of the police unions (which have their own internal health service) proposing a series of actions to combat the Covid-19 infection.
In particular, with respect to the situation in the prisons and penitentiary institutions of Sicily, where a total of about four thousand agents are employed, it was found “that at this time the subjects found positive for Coronavirus are attributable to a decidedly contained and limited percentage to the Palermo area “. “.
The Department of Health made itself available by ensuring “a supply of swabs that will be assigned to the personnel of the prison police operating on the island.” During the meeting, the needs of extension to the prisoners were also analyzed. Specifically, Commissioner Razza asked the unions to act as spokespersons “to initiate a dialogue with the Dap to imagine all the necessary measures to avoid possible infections.” Among the initiatives proposed by the exponent of the Musumeci government for the entire prison population, therefore, also a massive action of the influenza vaccination campaign that will begin shortly.
Finally, Razza expressed his willingness to the union representatives of the police forces to be able to use the anti-Covid prevention services of the Sicilian Region, for which he anticipated that he will inform the territorial leaders of this opportunity.
Positive agents for Pagliarelli, the Dap blocks the translation of the prisoners: the trials are skipped
The situation in the rest of Italy
In the last 24 hours in Italy 1,585 new cases and 13 deaths have been registered. This is the abstract:
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Currently positive: 41,413
Deaths: 35,658 (+13, + 0.04%)
Discharged / healed: 215,954 (+689, + 0.32%)
Hospitalized: 2,560 (+68)
Hospitalized of which in ICU: 212 (+5)
Buffers: 1,014,324 (+101,773)
Total cases: 293,025 (+1,585, + 0.54%)