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Family doctors against regional directives: “Automatic swab to the whole class at the first infected result”
Genoa – The prospect of having to face up to forty positives per day (according to an estimate by Alisa, the regional health agency), only among students and school operators, pushes the association of family doctors to request that the protocol issued the day before yesterday be corrected, in the part in which does not foresee buffer automation for the whole class in case a positive is identified. Meanwhile, the chain of contagion in La Spezia does not cease, which continues to crush significant numbers and completely outside the Ligurian average: even yesterday, the Far East territory produced the majority of the new infected: 70 of the 112 identified in total . Liguria, compared to 2,531 swabs, and an increase of seven hospitalized compared to Friday, bringing the total number of patients in structures administered by the ASL 5 to 78. The good news is the absence of deaths yesterday.
In the war against the coronavirus, two fronts remain open in Liguria. And the imminent restart of lessons only increases the tension level. The horizon is in fact that of see evaluation requests grow vertically. And if Liguria has a system with a preferential lane for all suspected cases that drop out of school (specialized clinics and drive-through), the president of general practitioners of Liguria, Andrea Stimamiglio, says he is concerned, after reading the latest indications from Alisa. “If a student or teacher is positive – he explains – I think that the swab for the whole class is essential. Without waiting a minute.
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