infections in the gym, many positive under 30. Bangladesh immigrants alarm

Boom in infections caused by Indian variant of Sars-Cov-2 in Campania, almost all concentrated in the territory of the Asl Napoli 3 sud with an important outbreak (44 cases registered within a week) identified in Greek’s tower and other flames scattered between Boscotrecase (2), Ercolano (7), Portici (4), San Giorgio a Cremano (2), San Sebastiano (3), Scafati (1), Torre Annunziata (2), Trecase (2) and Volla (6) and 5 other cases in Agerola. An outbreak, the latter which seems to have broken out in one gym which involves two families. Only one case in Naples which, despite recording the highest number of daily infections, has so far only been touched by the Delta variant. Then there are the last three cases identified by Cotugno, on yesterday’s infections, referring to patients residing in Massa di Somma (2) and Herculaneum.

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The Indian viral strain (Delta) therefore ranks second after the English one (Alpha), in the list of sequenced samples with a jump that allows him to pass from an incidence of 1 per cent, recorded in the previous surveys (8 cash cases in all in the last month) to 25 percent of the samples analyzed, therefore in line with the national average. A picture that emerges following the weekly sequencing activities provided for in the surveillance plan on viral strains circulating in Campania (conducted by the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of the South, the Dei Colli hospital, in particular the Cotugno hospital, and the Tigem funded by the Region ). In total, 321 swabs of subjects tested positive for Covid 19 with molecular swab were examined in the week before June 16 (date of the last biological sample collection). From the further genetic investigations carried out, the presence of 170 English and 82 Indian variants emerged. The rest of the list of viral strains consists of 36 Brazilian variants, 6 Colombian (concentrated in Laurino, Cilento, within a community of religious who emerged out of about thirty positives identified by the carpet screening and by an outbreak that started in the within a community of religious). Finally, another 23 European and 4 variants of uncertain origin in the definition phase.

A scenario in which the voice of the governor Vincenzo De Luca returns to be heard: “It is not the abandonment of the mask that marks the reopening – he stressed on the occasion of the presentation of the Book Fair, scheduled at Palazzo Reale in Naples at the beginning of July – taking it off is not about conquering the Normandy landings or signing the democratic constitution. Tourists arrive when they perceive a responsible society that is not lost in the unregulated nightlife that will lead us to a new ordeal in October ». De Luca also points the finger at the Rome government for how it has managed the communication on vaccines and for “the 300 who talk about Covid” that have raised doubts and fears.

The data on delta infections in Campania have meanwhile been communicated to the Higher Institute of Health and to the Regional Crisis Unit as part of their respective national and regional surveillance plans and for the tracking to the competent ASL. Further epidemiological investigations are underway and on the vaccination status of the affected subjects. Many are young people under the age of 30. All 82 patients positive for the variant were contacted yesterday to start a more detailed contact tracing. Few are hospitalized. Currently there is only one death in a case transferred to hospital the day before on which further investigations are underway for the confirmation of the Delta variant. “On our territory there is a large community of Bangladeshi citizens,” he says Gaetano D’Onofrio, health director of the Asl Napoli 3 sud – in particular in Palma Campania where there are over 10 thousand. A closed community, many illegal immigrants and few vaccinated. They are employed in agricultural work, in tourism, in farms, as domestic. They are not always able to intercept at the airport because they often travel by train and with triangulations from other areas. However, we do not register increases in hospitalizations and lethality. However, the affected patients are mostly Italian and almost all are in conditions of respiratory compensation. Those who are vaccinated are not in hospital ».