At -24 hours from the beginning of the Sanremo Festival, there is concern about the increase in infections in Liguria and especially in the province of Savona: with 309 new positive cases compared to 3,398 molecular swabs and 1,403 antigenic tests carried out, the test-positive ratio in the region increases, reaching 6.4 %, over 1 percentage point more than yesterday. Increase also for hospitalized patients (+19) who are 571 with 54 patients in resuscitation.
Boom of infections in the province of Savona
If the Genoese Asl3 counts the highest number of new cases (153), it is the Asl2 Savonese that sees the figure soar: they are 104 against 31 yesterday, with 12 new hospitalizations. Asl1 Imperiese and Asl 5 Spezia both count 23 cases. The Asl4 Tigullio list closes with 6 cases. “The numbers are growing especially in Savona. There are no particular clusters, but they are all infections that derive from children who fell ill at school and who then in some cases infected their families”. So the president of the Region Giovanni Toti during the press conference to take stock of the coronavirus. The deaths reported are 6 between the ages of 69 and 87, bringing the total deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 3,636.
Sanremo, more restrictions until March 5th (in full Festival)
The same governor in recent days has signed the ordinance concerning the whole of Western Liguria. The block (which will not be a real red zone) concerns not only Sanremo but also Ventimiglia and the neighboring municipalities will last until March 5 (the Festival will end the next day). The decision was made “to prevent the border area from ferrying the wave of the virus from France to Italy”. “We have decided to take some measures to ensure that the incidence of covid is kept under control, which above all in Ventimiglia and neighboring municipalities raises some concern as it is double compared to the rest of Liguria – said Toti -. The ordinance will provide from Wednesday to Friday the total closure of schools of all levels in Ventimiglia and Sanremo. Only for Ventimiglia and neighboring municipalities will some measures come into force such as the ban on take-away, the ban on the sale of alcohol, the ban on gatherings, the ban on moving outside the Municipality . We believe that ten days of restrictive measures could cool the pandemic peak “, Toti concluded, reiterating that the Government has guaranteed” national refreshments for all damaged economic activities “
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