Jump in coronavirus infections in Sicily, doctors warn: “We need a squeeze”



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What is especially worrying is the outbreak at the Esperanza y Caridad mission in Biagio Conte: since midnight all the guests of the structures in via Decollati, via Archirafi, the women’s mission in via Garibaldi 3 and Villa Florio are in quarantine. The positives have risen to 37 and at the table convened yesterday by the ASP with the Nas and the Municipality it was decided that all the guests, more than a thousand, are subjected to the swab. In Palermo yesterday was a record of positives: 70 cases. But the data is alarming throughout Sicily: 179 newly infected, 2.8 percent of the 6,329 swabs made, never so many. Hospital admissions also increase – from 187 to 194 – and patients in intensive care increase by one, from 14 to 15. Yesterday Sicily was the third Italian region in terms of number of infected. “We need urgent measures to contain the meetings,” say the experts.

A black friday

Palermo is still the hottest front. Hospitals are under pressure: brains are full, new seats are being installed in the Civic. It is in these two facilities where suspected cases are taken. We proceed with difficulty, more staff would be needed. In the province there is the Corleone case but also an outbreak in Bagheria: 12 infections in two days. In Enna, the ASP is looking for passengers who traveled on September 11 in a Prestia and Comandè coach from the airport to Palermo station (trip at 4 pm) and on a Sais bus that leaves from Palermo station and goes to Enna Bassa (trip at 5.30 pm). A Spanish tourist, who was on board, tested positive. The health company Enna has made available two email addresses (departmentprevention @ asp. Enna. It or covid19 @ asp. Enna. It) for reports. Cases are growing again in Ragusa: there are 19. Among them are a three-year-old boy who attended a game room in Modica and a 12-year-old girl who came into contact with the boy. The Health Department is studying a plan in the event of an increase in hospitalizations, with the hypothesis, for example, to block non-urgent ones again.

Biagio Conte outbreak

The first swabs have already revealed 37 cases, among which there are also two missionaries. Within the mission, the only solution – as the table established in the ASP has established – is isolation. The facilities have closed their doors since midnight yesterday. The police will guard the citadels of the “last”, especially that of via Decollati, because it will not be easy to keep more than 700 people under lock and key for fifteen days. Many, following news of the infections, lost their jobs. Biagio Conte is not in Palermo: the lay missionary is on his way to Scotland and there are four left to fill the ranks. Of midnight, even volunteers who actually have many essential services on their feet can no longer access. The Municipality has assured that it will guarantee food and medicine. The asymptomatic infected were transferred to the Covid San Paolo hotel. The situation is delicate and evolving.

The experts’ alarm

Are there many infected because many swabs are made or is the virus in Sicily exploding now? Massimo Farinella, director of Infectious Diseases of the Brain, has no doubts: “It was necessary to expand the block of flights at least until after the first month from school. “For Farinella it is obvious that more tampons lead to more positive results,” but it is equally evident that we are experiencing the consequences of opening up to tourist flows. “The infectious disease specialist is concerned about hospitals returning to be full: “We need a provision of the Region to contain meetings even between family members: marriages and full buses are a danger.” Antonio Cascio, director of the Infectious Diseases unit of the Polyclinic, trusts the teachers: “The foundations for educating children to respect the rules, distances and masks are needed today more than ever “.

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