Two deaths and a peak of infected in the Forlì area, two more cases in “San Camillo”

Two deaths must be counted in the last 24 hours due to Covid in the provincial territory. These are two cases that involve a 94-year-old woman who died at the Forlì hospital and a 74-year-old man from Tredozio, who died at the Covid hospital in Lugo. In total, 140 new cases have been recorded in the province of Forlì-Cesena in the last 24 hours, the highest daily figure in the area since the start of the pandemic, but with a much higher number of swabs than at the beginning of the pandemic and a contact tracing activity that has not been done before.

In particular, 99 new positives were posted for the Forlì area on Friday in the daily bulletin of Ausl Romagna and the Region. Among these, however, there are 34 positive cases in the “San Camillo” center for the elderly, to which are added two more cases from the same outbreak, bringing the total to 36 positive swabs. Of the new infections, 12 emerged from the swab requested by the GP for symptoms, 36 from the same outbreak at the Predappio residence, 5 from swabbing in hospitalization or prehospital discharge, 1 from occupational examination, 1 from swab performed in the private laboratory and 42 contact tracing (family, work or positive contacts). There are 61 new positives in Forlì.

Activity in schools

Thanks to the contact tracing activity, carried out by the Public Hygiene of Forlì, three new positive cases of Covid were identified in the school, two students and a teacher. Regarding the case of a student from Itis de Forlì, based on the epidemiological investigation carried out by the Ausl Public Health Department, after the preventive inspection, no close high-risk contacts were identified in the school environment. but only occasional contacts.

Occasional contacts in the classroom must monitor the appearance of fever or other symptoms suspected of Covid (cough, cold, diarrhea, conjunctivitis) for 14 days from the last risk contact, that is, from October 26. If symptoms appear, you should contact your GP immediately. For occasional contacts, quarantine or suspension of school attendance is not prescribed, but it is recommended to wear the surgical mask, have careful hand hygiene and avoid opportunities for aggregation that avoid physical distancing. A buffer is offered to those occasional contacts. The same occurs with the case of a high school student from the Matatia Integral Institute in Forlì. There are no quarantine measures here either, but occasional class contacts will have to watch for symptoms.

Finally, with regard to the case of a teacher at Matteotti primary school, also in this case the epidemiological investigation did not identify close, high-risk contacts in the school environment of the teacher who tested positive, but only occasional contacts. They should check the possible appearance of symptoms since the last contact at risk, or from October 27, but without quarantine obligations, paying the utmost attention to the constant use of the mask.

So in Emilia-Romagna

Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, 53,797 positive cases have been registered in Emilia-Romagna, 1,763 more than on Thursday, out of a total of 17,577 swabs made in the last 24 hours. The percentage of new positives out of the number of manufactured buffers is now 10%. Of the newly infected, 929 asymptomatic were identified as part of regional contact tracing and detection activities. The control and prevention activity continues: in general, among the new positives 202 people were already in isolation at the time of the swab execution and 380 were identified in the context of already known outbreaks. The average age of new positives on Friday is 46.4 years.

Of the 929 asymptomatic patients, 307 were identified through contact tracing, 109 through tests by risk categories introduced by the Region, 3 through serological screening, and 22 through prehospital tests. An epidemiological investigation of 488 cases is still being carried out. The contagion situation in the provinces sees Modena with 365 new cases, then Bologna (343), Reggio Emilia (246), Piacenza (183), Rimini (165), Ravenna (162), Parma (90), Ferrara (55) . Then Forlì (88), Cesena (44) and Imola (22). The swabs performed were 17,577, for a total of 1,570,748. To these are added 2,929 serological tests. Active cases, that is, the number of real patients, on Friday are 21,421 (1,712 more than those registered on Thursday). Of these, people isolated at home, that is, those with mild symptoms that do not require hospital treatment or are asymptomatic, are a total of 20,145 (+1,613 compared to Thursday), 94% of active cases. In Emilia-Romagna there are 11 new deaths.