Covid outbreak in a nursing home in Foggia: 8 positives and 80 swabs for staff and guests



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The peak of new cases of Covid, 43, registered in the province of Foggia is worrying. Of these: 31 are contacts of known cases; 8 are symptomatic people, 4 are foreign citizens present in the provincial territory. ASL Foggia constantly monitors the situation of a nursing home for the elderly in Foggia, the UAL Unione Amici di Lourdes, where, at this time, 8 positive cases of COVID 19 have been registered.

All protocols for the safety of guests and operators were activated immediately. The Prevention Department carried out an inspection inside the structure. The Hygiene service is rebuilding the chain of contacts. This afternoon the rest of the guests and all the staff will be subjected to the swab for a total of 80 people.

The anti-COVID network of ASL Foggia is also active with the USCA, for the home care of positive patients, and with the unit of the “Diseases of the Respiratory System” service if necessary ”.

However, this is the situation in the other provinces of Apulia.

BARI

“The Prevention Department today registered 40 new infections. The positivity for Sars-Cov 2 refers in particular to 31 close contacts linked to previously isolated cases and subjected to epidemiological surveillance, while the necessary investigations are ongoing for the remaining 9 cases. “

TOAST

“In the province of Brindisi, the Department of Prevention has identified, through contact tracing, three positive people, connected to known cases.”

BAT

“12 cases registered today in the province of Bat. These are close contacts of other positive cases registered in recent days and in only 3 cases are epidemiological investigations still under way by the Prevention Department ”.

LECCE

“There are 6 cases registered today by ASL Lecce: 4 are close contacts of already known cases, one is a resident who has returned from Sardinia, the other a resident on whom the epidemiological investigations of our Prevention Department are underway.”

TARANTO

“Two of the three Covid cases detected in the province of Taranto must be attributed to close contacts of positive cases; on the other hand, a negative woman prior to the first swab was positivized and was hospitalized in the Moscati infectious department, also due to previous pathologies ”.

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