Coronavirus: in 7 in 60sqm with infected

(ANSA) - BARI, MARCH 29 - Seven people in an apartment with two rooms and only one bathroom: this was the situation that occurred yesterday to the doctors engaged in helping, in the San Paolo di Bari district, a patient infected with Coronavirus, the grandfather of a family numerous. In the small house in the outskirts of the city live great-grandmother, grandfather and grandmother, the latter's daughter and her husband, and their two minor children. Settepersone in about 60 square meters and with a case of infection detected. "The problem of how to assist the patient was avoided immediately, avoiding that the whole family could be infected," explains Ludovico Abbaticchio, national president of the mayor of general practitioners (SMIs) to ANSA. "Situations like these - he continues - there are several throughout Italy. It is then urgent to find structures, I think of abandoned hotels or barracks, to guarantee the quarantine of people living in situations where isolation is not guaranteed".