“With Mayor Peracchini we are evaluating new measures to limit the spread of the infection” of Covid-19 in La Spezia. The governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, writes this when announcing a meeting of the regional control room for the afternoon. “We continue to closely monitor the situation of the Covid cluster in the province of La Spezia,” Toti- writes. Also tonight there were about ten hospitalized, but fortunately also the first hospital discharges and most of the patients are not in conditions There is no urgency in terms of beds in medium intensity care or for intensive care, in any case, if necessary , our health system is ready to increase them, as well as the San Martino hub remains available Prevention offices are working, also with the help of a mobile unit, to track and isolate all cases and will arrive in La Spezia in the next few hours a mobile laboratory of the Genoese ASL 3 to further increase the work. In the rest of Liguria -concludes Toti- the situation does not raise any concern neither for the number of infections nor for hospitalized patients that remain at a minimum since the beginning of the pandemic ”.
Yesterday, with 744 smears performed throughout Liguria in the previous 24 hours (the average now fluctuates more than 2300 per day), the positives were 59, of which 48 new infections only in La Asl5 La Spezia. And after the regional ordinance signed by the President of the Region that imposed yesterday the obligation to wear a mask throughout the province, the mayor of La Spezia, Pierluigi Peracchini, signed two ordinances yesterday in which he turned off nightlife, prohibiting the premises of the historic center to do live music from 6 to 10 pm, on Thursdays and Fridays, both indoors and outdoors.
Meanwhile, the controversy over the origin of the infections rages in the province. President Toti reiterated that the origin of the cluster was a party with gatherings in Tuscany, on the occasion of August 15, a hypothesis already denied by Tuscany, while someone points a finger at the party for the promotion of Spezia in Serie A, when thousands of people took to the streets in many cases without respecting the distancing measures.
