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There were 1,382 positive cases out of 10,848 tests for Covid-19 coronavirus infection today, December 19, 2020 in Puglia: 566 in the province of Bari, 49 in the province of Brindisi, 153 in the province of BAT, 241 in the province of Foggia, 55 in the province of Lecce, 309 in the province of Taranto, 6 residents outside the region, 3 cases of province of unknown residence.
26 deaths were recorded: 18 in the province of Bari, 5 in the province of Foggia, 2 in the province of Lecce, 1 in the province of Taranto. Since the beginning of the emergency, 951,771 tests have been carried out, with a decrease in hospitalized patients (22 less than yesterday), and an increase in those recovered, to 801 in the last 24 hours. However, 53,389 are currently positive.
The ASL prevention departments have activated all the procedures for the acquisition of anamnestic and epidemiological information, with the aim of tracing close contacts (the epidemiological bulletin).