Covid, soaring in Caltanissetta: the mayor closes the schools and asks for the red zone

CALTANISSETTA – Schools closed, from this morning and it is not known until when, in Caltanissetta. Mayor Roberto Gambino announced it in the night on a live Facebook. “There was a sudden increase in infections, from Friday to yesterday there were 100 more cases and this is worrying”; says the mayor. “I will also do some closures belonging to the municipality, like the villas,” he says. Essential services are guaranteed.

The city of Caltanissetta currently has 209 cases of covid, 2 people in intensive care, 23 hospitalizations in infectious disease wards, 183 citizens in fiduciary isolation.

“This sudden growth of infections in Caltanissetta forces us to take urgent measures – explains the mayor – We have taken decisions that belong to the municipal authority”.

And then he launches an appeal to the citizens: “Use the Ffp2 masks and stay spaced.” «I no longer use surgical masks but only FFP2 – he specified -. We are in an emergency again. The transmission capacity of this virus has increased “.

Finally he asked the President of the Region Nello Musumeci to establish “the red zone in Caltanissetta”. “We never wanted to do it but unfortunately the situation is very special,” he says.

In Caltanissetta, among other things, there is a kind of psychosis towards the AstraZeneca vaccine that the day before yesterday had led to a mass cancellation of reservations for serum, with 194 confirmed out of 600 reservations. But yesterday the trend was reversed. Out of 745 bookings only 171 have decided to cancel the request while 574 have been regularly vaccinated.