Coronavirus, third positive case in Calabria. A teacher admitted to Reggio Calabria

It is a professor of Agriculture admitted yesterday to the Great Metropolitan Hospital of Reggio Calabria who gave news of the positivity after performing a double virological check that found the presence of Covid-19

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COSENZA – The number of coronavirus positives in Calabria rises to three after a first full-blown case of infection recorded today in Reggio Calabria. The Company Management of the Great Metropolitan Hospital ‘Bianchi – Melacrino – Morelli’ confirmed that through a double virological check, a case of infection in a patient hospitalized yesterday afternoon. “This afternoon was confirmed through double virological check – reads the hospital note – iCoronavirus SARS-COV2 infection in an inpatient patient nyesterday afternoon“.

The hospitalized man is a professor at the Faculty of Agriculture spontaneously presented to the ‘Triage’ of the Reggio Calabria Hospitals, caught by the suspicion of being infected with coronavirus. His condition is good. According to when the hospital reports, “the man had a great intuition and immediately went to the first reception point of the Civil Protection aprepared in the internal square of the hospital, right next to the ‘Triage’, where it was immediately treated with the appropriate protocols, and subsequently, after the first checks, moved to the Infectious Diseases department“. It is plausible that he may have had contact with a previous case, one of his colleagues hospitalized in the ‘Cannizzaro’ hospital in Catania, “it is learned. The procedures for the epidemiological identification of the s have already startedobjects that came into contact with the patient, to whom home quarantine will be arranged, for asymptomatic people, and a specific control with a buffer for symptomatic ones.

Rector orders total closure of the University

The rector of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Santo Marcello Zimbone, immediately ordered the suspension of all the University’s activities “Pending the knowledge of the results of the health checks on University staff – wrote the rector – the immediate suspension of all the University’s activities was made, in order to ensure as a precaution and an emergency the maximum condition of protection of the entire university community “.