new covid infections in Ravenna

There are 7 cases of covid-19 registered in the Ravenna area. There are 6 asymptomatic and 1 with symptoms, all in home isolation, 4 men and 3 women. Two emerged as contacts of already known cases, in the family context; 5 cases related to the return from abroad (4 Macedonia and 1 Albania). There are 8 complete cures. The total number of cases diagnosed since the beginning of the pandemic in Ravenna, updated to Saturday morning, is therefore 1,716.

In Emilia Romagna there are 133 more than on Friday, of which 71 asymptomatic identified as part of regional contact tracing and detection activities: 71 were already in isolation at the time of the swab and 62 were from already known outbreaks. There are 20 new infections related to returns from abroad, for which the Region has provided two nasopharyngeal swabs during fiduciary isolation if they arrive from non-Schengen countries and one swab if they return from Greece, Spain, Croatia and Malta. The number of return cases from other regions is 10.

The average age of the new positives on Saturday is 37.7 years. Of 71 new asymptomatic patients, 28 were identified through category tests introduced by the Region, 4 through prehospital tests, 37 through contact tracing, and in one case through serological screening. For a last positive asymptomatic case at the time of diagnosis, the reason for performing the swab is unknown at this time. Unfortunately, there were two deaths in the Piacenza area: a 90-year-old man from Fiorenzuola d’Arda and a 92-year-old woman from Piacenza. Regarding the situation in the territory, the highest number of cases is registered in the provinces of Bologna (23), Piacenza (15), Parma (19), Reggio Emilia (15), Modena (24).

The swabs performed were 8,998, to which are added 2,306 serological tests. Active cases, that is, the number of real patients, on Saturday are 4,438 (69 more than those registered on Friday). People isolated at home, that is, those with mild symptoms that do not require hospital treatment, or are asymptomatic, are a total of 4,245 (79 more than on Friday), 95% of active cases. Intensive care patients dropped to 19 (-2 compared to Friday) and those hospitalized in other Covid wards to 174 (-8).

The total number of people cured reached 25,313 (+61 compared to Friday): 7 “clinically cured”, that is, they became asymptomatic after presenting clinical manifestations associated with the infection, and 25,306 those declared completely cured because they were negative in two tests . consecutive.