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Coronavirus, 20 new cases in Puglia of which 9 in the Bari area: “Almost all the infected from abroad” “

Still new cases in Puglia and for the fourth time this month there are 20 or more in a single bulletin. According to the Region’s coronavirus data relating to 11 August, there are another 20 new positives compared to 1,981 swabs carried out. Of these, 9 are residents in the province of Bari, 6 in the province of Lecce, 2 in the Bat and in Taranto and 1 in the province of Foggia.

The 9 Bari, underlines the general manager Asl, Antonio Sanguedolce, have “returned from vacation areas and Italian regions at this time with a higher concentration of the virus, in particular from Greece, Malta and Lombardy. All positive subjects have been identified by the epidemiological surveillance system activated by our Prevention Department through self-reporting “.

The Bat counterpart, Alessandro Delle Donne, explains that the 2 of his province are “a man from Northern Spain symptomatic but monitored at home and a woman returning from Malta admitted to the Infectious Diseases unit of the Bisceglie hospital. . The situation is under control: the Prevention Department is at work and the population from abroad is invited to declare themselves to perform the swab “.

In Lecce “are connected to cases already identified in recent days. – declares Rodolfo Rollo, dg Asl Lecce – Two are linked to the group of young people from Puglia who returned from Greece, 1 young man returned from Malta, 2 are foreigners domiciled in the isolation areas of a reception center run by the Red Cross. The situation is under control “. Instead, the general manager of Asl Taranto, Stefano Rossi, speaks of “two citizens of the province of Taranto who have returned from abroad, respectively from Oman and Germany. The Asl prevention department has already started all epidemiological investigations to identify close contacts “.

There are no new deaths, the sum of which remains 544, while the healed rise to 3,977 (4 more than yesterday’s bulletin). With these figures, the currently positive (total cases less deaths and healed) still grow to the current 229. Total hospitalized patients reach 39, still with one patient in intensive care.

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