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Covid: record 2500 infections in 24 hours, outdoor masks in Lazio

2020-10-02T04:29:41.286Z


Never so high in 5 months. Record of tampons, over 118 thousand. The expert: 'First consequence of the reopening of schools'. The mandatory salivary test in schools in Lazio starts on Monday. In the Region, the obligation to wear respiratory protection could arrive before the weekend to contain the effects of nightlife (ANSA)


 Infections for Covid 19 are spurting in Italy: 2,548 new cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours, an increase that had not occurred for over five months and that was identified with a record number of swabs: 118,236 about 13 thousand more than yesterday.

The total number of infected people since the beginning of the emergency rises to 317,409.

The increase in the number of victims also dates back to: 24 in one day, compared to 16 yesterday, for a total of 35,918  

The over 2,500 cases of Covid-19 recorded today in Italy

could be a first consequence of the reopening of schools

, which took place two weeks ago: physicist

Giorgio Sestili,

founder and one of the curators of the Facebook page "Coronavirus: Scientific data and analysis ".

However, the expert notes, "the ratio between the number of cases and swabs performed is still very low". 

There are 52,647 currently positive at Covid 19 in Italy,

1,384 more than Wednesday.

The data from the Ministry of Health also confirm the growth of hospitalized patients: today there are 291 people in intensive care, 11 more in the last 24, while in ordinary wards they are 3,095, fifty more than yesterday.

The total of discharged and healed rises to 228,844 with an increase of 1,140 in one day.

The obligation to wear the mask outdoors could also arrive in Lazio in the next few hours.


    The measure aims to contain the infections, which have risen in the region in recent days, and would concern in particular all those situations in which social distancing is not possible.


    The introduction of the mask requirement

should arrive before the weekend

thus also containing

possible infections in the nightlife areas

where gatherings are easily created in front of the clubs and in some areas of Rome and other centers of the provinces.

The obligation in particular will be addressed

to all situations of presence of several people including family gatherings

.

In this regard,

a possible downsizing of the participants in parties and ceremonies

was also hypothesized at first

, a sort of contingent number, a hypothesis, however, at the moment overcome by the mandatory adoption of the mask.

At the start on Monday with salivary tests in schools in Lazio.

The pilot project will involve several institutes.

"We will start with the experimentation of the salivary test in the schools of Lazio, during the screening of 800 thousand students" explained Francesco Vaia, health director of Spallanzani in Rome in recent days.

The salivary test was validated at Spallanzani.

"It is a less invasive method and allows us to avoid the second withdrawal," explains Vaia.


Source: ansa

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