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Lazio’s Councilor for Health, Alessio D’Amato, compares the clusters of the Costa Smeralda “with the Atalanta-Valencia match” in February, 45,000 spectators crowded the stands of San Siro to witness the magic of Papu Gómez, while the epidemic was already exploding under the track in Lombardy. And many among virologists are convinced that this game contributed to the multiplication of infections in the North. The “zero game” they call it. “I see similarities with what happened this summer in Sardinia, a viral explosion, without comparison, at least for the tracking we had done so far in Lazio»D’Amato says. A report has just started from the Pisana offices that tries to explain, with numbers, percentages and first interpretations, what happened in August on the island. Destination of the file: Ministry of Health.
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The report was prepared by Seresmi, the regional infectious disease surveillance service, and by the virology laboratory of the Lazzaro Spallanzani institute. Two data do not leave us indifferent: among the «764 cases with epidemiological links to the region Sardinia», We read in the referred document The messenger is in possession, “449 (59%) are cases with symptoms.” These are, therefore, people who, when they were subjected to hyssop, once they arrived in Rome, already had “a cough, fever or burning eyes,” explains Commissioner D’Amato. This is a warning light that comes on in the upstream control system. Before trips. It is assumed that those who arrived with symptoms also have them when they boarded the ferry or boarded the plane. “It is a worrying issue – sums up the Lazio health chief on the Zingaretti board – the Ministry of Health will now have to face it.” This is also why we have decided to carry out this report and other analyzes will be prepared in the coming weeks by our experts.
The other data that stands out, in this set of numbers and slides, is that 43% of the positives were discovered through “contact tracing”, the subsequent monitoring carried out by ASL doctors. It means that almost one in two infected had somehow escaped the network of incoming controls. For Sardinia, unlike the provisions of the Ministry for Greece, Spain, Malta and Croatia, there is no obligation to perform a swab upon return. The test is voluntary. La Pisana, it must be said, was equipped immediately after Ferragosto, when the first positive returns were intercepted and the contagion curve from the Costa Smeralda began to rise, becoming one of the predominant items in the bulletin. COVID-19 regional. Vacationers returning from the beaches of Gallura, and the rest of the island, had access to the 19 health drive-ins that were initially enabled for those returning from countries at risk. A quick swab center has been opened in the port of Civitavecchia for those getting off the ferry. However, this “screening” system made it possible to find 45% of the positives returned from Sardinia. A roughly equal proportion, 43%, were identified only thanks to the hard work of “virus detectives,” the tracking experts at local health companies.
Of the 2,233 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Lazio “with the swab date between August 1 and 28”, according to the file sent to the Ministry by Roberto Speranza, 34% have an epidemiological link with Sardinia. The average age of those infected is low: 25 years. Almost all positives are treated at home, but 26 people, including children, are hospitalized. Most of those infected returned by ferry: 70% traveled by boat. 28% returned by plane, 2% with private vehicle. The plan to clean all passengers on board, both in Rome and Sardinia, insistently proposed by the Lazio region, has never been implemented. The protocol with the Sardinian board was still in draft. «I say it without controversy – concludes D’Amato – but it would have been useful, it was the way recommended by the technicians. Now we hope that these analyzes and the others that we will carry out in the coming days will help to understand what happened. And what should not be repeated.
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