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Coronavirus: infections drop below one thousand, 996 new cases in 24 hours

2020-08-31T18:27:08.898Z


You are the dead. In Lazio the positives are 148, 135 in Lombardy and 117 in Emilia Romagna. They date back to Sardinia. National tampon plan, fully operational also with new tests. Covid in hotel in Porto Rotondo, 130 staff swabs (ANSA)


The decline in coronavirus infections in Italy continues

, falling below one thousand.

The increase in 24 hours was 996, compared to 1,365 on Sunday.

On the other hand, the number of victims rose, six in one day (on Sunday there were four), for a total number of 35,483 deaths.

There are

117 new cases

of Coronavirus positivity

in Emilia-Romagna

, identified on the basis of 6,132 swabs.

Of these 57 are asymptomatic, 53 were already in isolation at the time of the swab and 40 were identified in the context of already known outbreaks.

With 9,866 swabs performed, there are

135 new cases in Lombardy

(of which 20 'weakly positive' and 8 following serological tests).

Therefore, 1.36% of the tests performed are positive.

"Out of more than 13 thousand swabs

, 148 cases are recorded

today

in Lazio

of these 75 are in Rome and zero deaths.

A prevalence of return cases is confirmed (about 44%) and cases with links from Sardinia are decreasing (about 34%) ", explained the Regional Health Councilor Alessio D'Amato." There are instead twenty-seven cases in the cluster of San Giovanni di Dio - Fatebenefratelli in Genzano (25 guests and 2 operators) in the facility that hosts adult patients with mental discomfort and where the epidemiological investigation is underway ", underlined the commissioner D'Amato explaining that the situation is under control . New surge in infections in

Sardinia

, after yesterday's decline: in the latest update of the Regional Crisis Unit

79 new cases

are recorded

,

68 detected by screening and 11 by suspected diagnosis. There are

73 new cases

of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours in

Tuscany

 while in Liguria there are

44 new

positives.

A national swab plan,

the elaboration of which will start from the "Crisanti draft"

will be developed in the coming weeks with the aim of becoming fully operational in the most delicate period of seasonal flu and its peak

.

On the table of experts, according to what is learned, there should also be the possibility of adopting new tests such as those able to distinguish whether a patient's symptoms are attributable to Covid or the flu. 

Covid in a hotel in Porto Rotondo, 130 staff swabs - One

hundred

and

thirty swabs were performed among the employees of the Abi d'Oru hotel, a 5-star hotel in the Gulf of Marinella, near Porto Rotondo.

The Ats staff coordinated by Marcello Acciaro, head of the Crisis Unit for northern Sardinia, carried out the tests following the first positivity to covid 19 of a 20-year-old barman from Orgosolo, who in recent days had reported on Instagram his odyssey before he could get the swab from the health company.

Also 90 employees and children of the La Maddalena Summer Center were subjected to swabs, where the positivity of one of the staff was recorded.

Source: ansa

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