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‘Puglia becomes a red zone’, the doctors’ appeal to stop Covid

The president of the Medical Association of Bari Filippo Anelli: “The virus continues to spread at a worrying speed in our region. Councilor Lopalco immediately ask the government to make Puglia a red region”

The number of infections is growing, the Apulian victims of the coronavirus from March to today exceed a thousand and also hospitalizations increase: 36 more than yesterday, 1447 against 1441. The Covid-19 epidemic (THE SPECIALTHE LIVEBLOG) does not slow down his race in Puglia and the doctors call for the establishment of the “red zone”. Asked by the president of the Medical Association of Bari and of the Federation of National Orders, Filippo Anelli: “The virus – he maintains – continues to spread at a worrying speed in Puglia. Councilor Lopalco immediately asks the government to make Puglia red region “.

The data that worry

deepening


Coronavirus, Abruzzo red zone from 18. Schools remain open


The epidemiologist is on the same wavelength as the doctors, also worried by the epidemiological trend throughout Italy: “At the moment the Covid-19 epidemic is growing at a faster rate than the flu. With the difference that the flu does not require many beds and intensive care “. At stake is the stability of the hospital network, even today there have been 1,044 new positive cases on only 4,425 tests: one swab out of four has detected a contagion, a percentage never reached. In the province of Foggia there were 426 new infections, 267 in the Bari area, 127 in the province of Taranto, 110 in the BAT province, 71 in the province of Lecce, 50 in the province of Brindisi, 3 residents outside the region, 10 cases of non-resident province note have been reclassified and reallocated.

The number of victims is growing

deepening


Coronavirus in Italy, the bulletin with the data of today 16 November


And the number of deaths is still rising, with the 36 victims today are 1,021 in seven months. Nineteen of the victims registered today resided in the province of Bari, 2 in the Bat, 2 in the province of Brindisi, 8 in the province of Foggia, 2 in the province of Lecce, 3 in the province of Taranto. Foggia, Bat and Bari are the areas most in difficulty in managing patients, so much so that even the Bari Di Venere hospital had to convert 40 beds to allocate them to Covid. In Corato (Bari), 118 total infections were recorded (between staff and guests) and 8 deaths in three Rssa and a social cooperative: this was communicated by the mayor Corrado De Benedittis in a post on Facebook.

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