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Coronavirus, sixteen new infected. Two are in Veneto. New 8 cases in Codogno, 5 health workers
Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region: '250 people in isolation'
Two other cases of coronavirus in Italy after 6 in Lombardy: these are two Venetian citizens who at the first tests were positive. The two have already been isolated in hospital and now expect the results of a second test they have undergone.
In Codogno another 8 cases - '' Compared to the swabs made in these hours on the one hand there are negative evidences, but on the other we have identified 8 other positivity including 5 health workers, nurses and doctors from the Codogno hospital and three patients " : this is what the Lombard Councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera said.
The six people tested positive for coronavirus in Lombardy "are in serious condition". This is what the governor of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana said. The sick are all adults, around 40 years old. It is a 38-year-old man employed by Unilever of Lodi, hospitalized in intensive care at the Codogno hospital. His condition improved slightly compared to last night when he went to the emergency room.
There are about ten Municipalities, all in the same area, affected by the coronavirus ordinance decided by a control room chaired by the governor Attilio Fontana, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and the head of civil protection Borrelli. The Councilor for Welfare of the Giulio Gallera Region explained it by speaking of "nine, ten municipalities" and listing among others Somaglia and Castelgerundo.
WHERE ARE WE AT THE CORONAVIRUS?
The man, in recent weeks, would have gone to dinner with a colleague returned from China, an employee of the Mae of Fiorenzuola d'Arda, in Piacentino. His wife, a pregnant teacher and currently on maternity leave, was also positive. A third person who allegedly had contact with the 38-year-old for doing sports with him spontaneously showed up in the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia. Three other people are hospitalized with pneumonia clinical picture at Codogno hospital. The colleague returned from China was accompanied to the Sacco hospital in Milan where he is in solitary confinement and tested negative for a first test for coronavirus.
In addition to the 38 year old and his wife, 3 customers of a bar in Codogno and the son of the owner of the shop would be the other four positive to Coronavirus. According to what ANSA learns, the owner's son had played soccer with the 38-year-old, while the other three are only customers of the bar and would never have come into direct contact with him. In addition, the 38-year-old general practitioner is hospitalized with pneumonia: as far as we learn, the doctor would be hospitalized in Milan.
According to the virologist Giorgio Pal? of the University of Padua, it is possible to be negative on the test even after having had a SarsCoV2 coronavirus infection. Meanwhile, a woman, symptomatic, of the 38-year-old coronavirus positive colleague is hospitalized in isolation in the Infectious Diseases Department of the Piacenza Hospital. Prime Minister Conte has announced that a quarantine has been arranged for all those who have come into contact with the infected. At the moment there are two hundred and fifty people put in solitary confinement. Among them - said the councilor for Welfare of Lombardy, Giulio Gallera - 149 are nurses, doctors, family members and people who came into direct contact with the 38-year-old hospitalized in Codogno. Then there are the employees who work in his company and have had direct contact with him. Gallera invited the citizens of Castiglione d'Adda, Codogno and Casalpusterlengo, as a precaution, to stay at home "in voluntary quarantine" and clarified that all the necessary diagnostic tests have already been carried out on the entire medical and health staff of the Codogno hospital.
The mayor of Codogno has ordered the closure of the schools for the afternoon of today and for tomorrow, and "at least until Sunday" for all the "food and drink administration, public entertainment and meeting places and crowd gathering "such as discos, dance halls, game rooms and sports facilities. In Castiglione d'Adda, where the parents of the man infected with the coronavirus reside, the celebrations for the carnival and sporting events have been suspended and schools are being closed. Even in Lodi we think of the closure of schools. The deputy mayor of Casalpusterlengo ordered the closure of the schools and kindergartens.
The Ministry of Health has established a "trust" home quarantine obligation for those who have returned from a trip to China in the last 14 days and "active surveillance" for those who have been in areas at risk, that is, in the Asian country as indicated by the WHO, with obligation to report to the local health authorities upon returning to Italy.
WHO says it is concerned about the number of infections that do not have a clear epidemiological link, for example that they have not traveled to China or had contact with confirmed cases. To avoid risky contact and contagion between doctors, family doctors will do a telephone triage before making a home visit or receiving a patient with suspected coronavirus symptoms. The Italian Federation of General Practitioners will send to all doctors a card with questions about contacts, the patient's breathing capacity, and any episodes of dyspnea.
"At the moment there is no reason to raise the alarm level in Italy to the maximum. The maximum level is if there are many autochthonous cases in various parts of Italy, that is, we need multiple outbreaks that light up simultaneously". So the president of the Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Marcello Tavio, at 'Coronaviris - Il punto' by ANSA. "At that point the epidemiological criterion of contact with a person who had or has had the virus or has been in a high-risk country is no longer valid, because anyone could have the virus, but we are still out of this scenario."
GENOA - Four Chinese are hospitalized in Genoa to check for possible coronavirus infection. The four, father and three children, are under observation at the San Martino hospital. Man is asymptomatic, children have some thermal and respiratory symptoms. The mother and the other child, currently asymptomatic, are in isolation from their home. The Region announced. They make up the family unit. The seventh person lives in Italy but outside the family unit. This has never been in contact with the members of the family and there is no particular attention on her. She had been associated with the family because at first she was resident with the family. Father, mother and children had returned from China on February 15 from an area with high coronavirus circulation.
PIACENZA - The Ausl of Piacenza has also started checks and controls on the Emilia region: the colleague returned from China with whom the 38-year-old patient went out to dinner in fact works for a company in Fiorenzuola d'Arda (Piacenza). The checks are used to verify the possible contacts of the Italian who has returned from China with Piacenza employees of the company.
"As a precautionary measure, a health team has been sent to monitor workers in the Mae company in Fiorenzuola," the mayor of Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Romeo Gandolfi wrote on Facebook. "The Fiorenzuola worker returned from China in late January and identified by patient zero as a suspect 1 - he says - is currently hospitalized in Codogno hospital for checks". "In the early afternoon we will have other updates from the Piacenza ASL".
And a symptomatic woman is hospitalized in isolation in the Infectious Diseases department of the Piacenza Hospital, connecting the coronavirus positive patient to the Unilever of Lodi, explains the Emilia-Romagna Region in a note. The outcome of this swab is expected from this patient examined at the Sant'Orsola regional reference laboratory.
As regards the two companies involved, Unilever (where the 38-year-old positive at Covid-19 works) and Mae spa (where the friend of the Lodigiano who has returned from China is employed), the ministerial protocols envisaged have already been activated, specifies the Emilia Region -Romagna. The management of the Lombard company (Unilever) is the responsibility of the Lombardy Region, while the Emilia-Romagna Region, in full connection with the Piacenza Health Authority, is dealing with the MAE. The public hygiene department of Piacenza has already contacted the competent doctor of the MAE to initiate supervision of the company's workers, which today has been prudently closed on the initiative of the owner. If the employee Mae, who returned from China on January 21 and already negative to the swab, were also negative to further investigations, the approach will be modified accordingly.
THE SPALLANZANI BULLETIN - "The young Italian researcher, a confirmed case of COVID-19, has now been persistently negative on tests for the search for the new coronavirus". This is what emerges from today's medical bulletin of the Spallanzani hospital in Rome.
"In these days we will decide if we should, as probable, put him in another room for observation." Spallanzani's health director, Francesco Vaia said this when speaking of the infected Italian researcher, on the sidelines of today's bulletin. To those who asked him if he was cured he replied: "In fact, he is persistently negative on the test".
"The pair of Chinese citizens from the city of Wuhan, confirmed cases of Covid - 19, continues to be hospitalized in our Institute. The couple's clinical conditions have improved, significantly
