Positive inspector in Piacentino, all operators in quarantine. The Mayor: “Those who vote with a mask are not at risk”

Had done the buffer Friday September 18 but, without waiting Outcome of the test, he had gone to the electoral college to do it ATM. Found out I was positive in Covid-19 when operations had already begun to open the voting table. This morning the mayor of the municipality of Calendasco (Piacenza), Filippo Zangrandi, had to suspend the electoral operations in the electoral college due to the risk of contagion.

“Electoral operations in seat 2 are suspended due to Covid until 1:30 pm. The new headquarters will be operational from 1.30 pm, with a new staff ”. The mayor entrusted the announcement to social networks, specifying that those who had already voted wearing the mask me disinfect he hands there was no risk of contagion.

Already early in the afternoon the new seat was put into operation, after having replaced the president and the cashiers and have moved the voting booths in the Town Hall of the Town Hall. The activities are carried out safely and the Prefecture has replaced the necessary paper and stationery. The municipal administration is sanitizing the place occupied by the closed seat.

To explain the episode was theAusl of Piacenza, which in a note confirmed “the presence of a scrutineer who tested positive for the Covid-19 swab”, specifying that “the person in question had made a swab last Friday, September 18”. The president, the secretary and the cashiers, considered close contacts of the positive person, were put in isolation. The Piacenza Ausl carried out an epidemiological investigation and verified that all the procedures foreseen to avoid the transmission of the infection were maintained at the voting table by both the tellers and the voters.