"Today in Lazio there are 146 cases and one death, of these 57% are return links while those with links from Sardinia are 40% (59 cases)". Thus the regional councilor for health Alessio D'Amato. "The epidemiological curve is mainly linked to cases of re-entry, young and asymptomatic - he continues -. A great deal of testing and tracing is being done and the situation is strongly monitored. the drive-in at the port of Civitavecchia and opens a new drive-in at the Guidonia CAR ". The commissioner then added that with regard to rapid tests "I agree with Zaia, it is a great help for screening. After the validation made at the request of the Ministry of Health and the Veneto Region by the Spallanzani virology laboratory directed by Maria Rosaria Capobianchi together with that of Treviso directed by Roberto Rigoli and that of Pievesestina (Emilia-Romagna) directed by Vittorio Sambri, soon also to drive-in for screening with the result within half an hour "he added.
LAZIO - 21 new positives identified yesterday with rapid tests at Fiumicino and Ciampino airports. This was announced by the Crisis Unit for Covid 19 of the Lazio Region explaining that at the Fiumicino airport 9 new asymptomatic positives were identified and they are five residents in Rome, one of Greek nationality residing in Perugia, one of Avezzano, one of Naples and one of Milan, all returning from the countries covered by the ordinance of the Ministry of Health.
There are 12 positive cases identified at Ciampino Airport and they are four Italian citizens, seven Spanish citizens and one citizen of the Dominican Republic.
Since the beginning of activity, 106 asymptomatic positive cases identified through the use of rapid antigenic tests, subsequently confirmed by the molecular test, of which more than half reside outside the region - reads a note -. All travelers are asymptomatic, have been placed in solitary confinement and international contact tracing has been initiated.
Yesterday 4,142 swabs were performed at the drive-in in the Lazio Region and soon the antigenic rapid tests in the drive-ins will also be used with a response after thirty minutes to speed up the procedure times.
At the moment 67 patients are hospitalized at Spallanzani in Rome. Of these 45 are positive for the Sars-Cov-2 swab, 22 under investigation. Four patients require intensive care. Patients discharged and transferred to their homes or to other local structures are 613 this morning. This is what emerges from today's Spallanzani bulletin.
PUGLIA - Out of 1,068 swabs processed, 46 infections of Coronavirus have been recorded in Puglia today: 30 in the province of Bari, 10 in the Bat, 3 in the province of Foggia, 2 in the province of Lecce, 1 in the province of Taranto. It hadn't happened since 30 April: it is the highest number of cases in the whole Apulian summer season. No deaths were recorded. Since the beginning of the emergency, 284,483 tests have been carried out; 505 are the patients recovered; 4010 are currently positive cases, of which 85 are hospitalized. The total of positive Covid cases in Puglia is 5,070.
SARDINIA - There are five new covid 19 positives in San Teodoro, in Gallura, after the case of a man from Lazio who had contracted the virus in recent days. This time there are five residents: a 50-year-old man who works in the field of tourism and who is now hospitalized in the infectious disease center of the Sassari hospital, while the other four positives are his work colleagues. The news was given by the mayor of the coastal center of the north east of the island, Domenico Mannironi, through a press release also disclosed on Facebook.
The 26 positives identified a week ago in the Santo Stefano resort, in the La Maddalena archipelago, were subjected to the second swab today. The health workers of the Usca, the special care continuity unit, will have to check the health status of the people who had been placed in preventive quarantine together with the 450 guests and staff of the facility.
BASILICATA - Five of the 283 swabs analyzed in Basilicata between last Saturday and yesterday were positive: this was announced by the regional task force, explaining that "currently positive Lucanians are 16". Two people are hospitalized in the hospitals of Potenza and Matera, while the Lucanians in home isolation are 15. Since the beginning of the emergency (28 dead and 375 recovered), 53,100 swabs were analyzed in Basilicata, 52,476 of which were negative.
SOUTH TYROL - The laboratories of the South Tyrolean health authority have carried out 609 swabs in the last 24 hours. 15 new positive cases were registered. The number of coronavirus positive people therefore rises to 2,884. Seven Covid-19 patients are hospitalized in normal hospital wards and another eleven are in isolation in the Colle Isarco facility. Only one patient is admitted to an intensive care unit. The total number of coronavirus deaths remains stable - at 292 -. There are currently 1,649 people in home isolation, of which 287 have returned from Croatia, Greece, Spain or Malta. 3,310 people have been healed, according to the health authority.