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New coronavirus alert in the hospital San Martino of Genoa. Two wards, “Oncology 1” and “Medicine” were closed to the public today after a patient and a doctor tested positive for Covid-19. Patient admissions and visits are also blocked. Specifically, an apprentice from the department was infected. Medical Oncology 1 and a patient who was in the Department of Medicine of the Monobloc. Doctors, nurses and other patients have been or will be subjected to buffer. Results are expected next week. The hospital was declared Covid-free on July 15, after a four-month emergency. Therefore, the health personnel do not hide any concerns.
In recent days another case of positivity was found in the department of Gastroenterology on the eleventh floor of the monobloc of the San Martino polyclinic in Genoa. He was a 56-year-old patient in download, it is “weakly positive for the second smear”, a result of the screening process implemented after the two cases involving a patient and a nurse, which emerged on Saturday. In total they are therefore five cases of infection see you at the hospital. The hospital has communicated that the rooms affected by the temporary closure are temporarily suspended patient visits, until the results of the second swab performed 7 days after the first. the resignation, Instead, they are guaranteed in the presence of at least one negative swab, the consequent fiduciary home isolation and notification to the treating physician.
Meanwhile, throughout the Liguria the number of new cases increases again daily. Only yesterday 141 new infections were registered. Although the majority are concentrated in La Spezia: 91, of which 50 are the result of contact of a confirmed case and 41 detection activities, also in Genoa they are increasing, with 33 infections, of which 18 of contact of a confirmed case and 15 of exercise. put on screen. There are 140 hospitalized, an increase of two patients compared to yesterday. Of these, 12 are in intensive care, while yesterday there were 11.
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