Covid is scary again in China. While Shanghai is still in full lockdown, the alarm now rises also in Beijing : all the people who live and work in the Chaoyang district, the heart of the capital, will be tested starting today. The state network CCTV reported on the decisions of health authorities after the city of over 23 million inhabitants saw a leap in local cases focused in Chaoyang. In the count from 22 April, the district has ascertained 26 of the 41 total of the city. "Preliminary epidemiological results showed that the coronavirus was ignored for a week," authorities said. Already in recent days, according to the transmissions of the infections continued for a week, the authorities had warned "the high risk of infections", and now the specter of the lockdown is back in the Chinese capital as well.
IN ITALY - In Italy there are 56,263 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours , against 70,520 in the previous survey. On the other hand, the registered victims are 79, down from 143 in the previous bulletin. On the other hand, the rate of positivity increased, reaching 17.2%.
IN SARDINIA - On the island, data on Covid yesterday recorded 1,284 further cases of positivity (of which 1,141 diagnosed as antigenic). Sixteen patients in intensive care, 309 in the medical area and 30,523 people in home isolation (+611). Agenas still confirms an unchanged occupancy rate of Covid patient beds in hospitals: 8% in intensive care and 18% in the non-critical area. Three deaths recorded by the latest bulletin, and among these the 24-year-old from Sestu Alessia Pireddu , who had been fighting leukemia for two years and who died in the night between Saturday and Sunday cut short by Covid. Great pain on the island for the disappearance of the young woman, well known and well liked throughout Sestu . "Greetings baby, wherever you are", wrote on Facebook Danilo Salisci of the Dance Company, the dance school where the young woman had worked, posting a photo where she can be seen smiling like never before. And, within minutes, the social networks were flooded with images of the girl and her dance competitions, as well as the many performances.
Many gathered around the pain of Simone Pireddu and Stefania Manca , the parents, as well as that of their little brother and beloved husband William Puddu , married in March last year.
The funeral will be celebrated tomorrow at 16.30 in Sestu, in the church of Our Lady of Grace .
(Unioneonline)
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