(ANSA) - BARI, MARCH 10 - The incidence rate of infections "in Bari, in the last 7 days, has further increased to 323 cases per 100,000 (+ 26%). In Taranto it is equal to 285 per 100,000, with an increase in 29%. In these two provinces, all schools must be closed immediately in the light of the government's latest modpcm and therefore I will issue the relative ordinances ".
The president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, wrote on facebook, representing the epidemiological situation in the region.
"The data are alarming due to the growing number of infections that we have been detecting for days", underlines the governor, explaining that "the data updated to date relating to the aggregate flow of Civil Protection - Emiliano argues - represent a regional weekly incidence value equal to 222 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, increased by 22% compared to the previous 7 days. Just two weeks ago the value was 135 cases per 100,000 inhabitants ".
"Even the weekly incidence in Lecce, while remaining on lower values, increased by 59% compared to the previous week and, in general, is also increasing in the other provinces. The diagnostic replication index as of March 6 - he continues - a similar indicator RT, but which can be calculated more promptly, stands at values of 1.22, indicating that, in the absence of measures aimed at limiting the movement of people and interpersonal contacts to a minimum, the weekly incidence level in 14 days could exceed, even at a regional level, the 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, well beyond the limit of 250 out of 100,000 foreseen by the last dpcm to close all school activities in presence ".
It is - he concludes - a dramatic forecast that would cause hospitalizations and deaths to rise frighteningly ". (ANSA).