• Bartolini outbreak in Bologna, over 60 positive cases

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June 26, 2020 There are 27 new cases of positivity related to the Coronavirus outbreak that broke out in the Bartolini logistics warehouse in Bologna, a number that adds up to the 64 registered until yesterday. This was reported by the Emilia Romagna Region which, in the last 24 hours, detects, on the whole 46 new cases, 39 of which are asymptomatic. The majority of cases (37 out of 46) are in the province of Bologna. According to the data, updated at 12, there are three deaths: one in Bologna, one in Ferrara and one in Modena, which bring the total to 4,252.

The company. "We can not stop"
"We never stopped. While the country was stopped we continued to support citizens by delivering the necessary goods." So even now "we can stop not only for the senders, but also for the recipients. Considering that we carry out a necessary service we are trying, in concert with the Ausl, not to stop because we have put in place all the agreed actions to avoid this eventuality ": Marco Zanazzi, sales manager of Brt Corriere Espresso, ex Bartolini, said it to AGI.

The cluster slowed down Bartolini's deliveries, especially in the Bolognese area, without stopping them. The warehouse in the Roveri area, where the outbreak developed, also remained operational. "We, in agreement with Ausl, have reduced the operators inside the warehouse and we have changed the operating process by managing only the deliveries in the Bologna area. The warehouse remained closed during the various sanitisations but has always remained operational" . Reduction of staff, temporary stop to screen workers (370 swabs currently performed) or to sanitize the environments have led to a different organization of the Bolognese hub and a consequent delay in some deliveries.

Already at the start of the lockdown "we set up a committee aimed at checking compliance with all regulations issued by the government: body temperature measurement, use of masks, sanitizing gels and gloves. Then, we completely removed contact with our drivers in delivery phase. The goods are left at a distance and there is no need to sign anything for a receipt ", concluded Zanazzi. 

The mayor of Bologna: "Zero certainties"
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak born in the Bartolini warehouse in Bologna, the mayor Virginio Merola returns to appeal to the sense of responsibility of the citizens: "I hope like everyone that in the autumn does not happen what it is happened with the Spanish. We don't know, therefore not knowing it is important to reiterate that the "containment" measures must be maintained ". For the Bolognese mayor we must continue to "insist that we have no certain scientific prediction on what will happen" in the next stages, "therefore we recommend continuing to keep the physical distance, the mask and to take all the measures" expected. 

The situation in Emilia Romagna
Overall, deaths in Emilia-Romagna reached 4,252. The new swabs carried out yesterday in Emilia-Romagna are 4,491, thus reaching a total of 478,941, to which are added another 1,546 serological tests, always done in the last twenty-four hours. The new healings are 63 for a total of 23,097, 81% of those infected since the beginning of the crisis. Active cases continue to decline, namely the number of actual patients, which today are 1,044 (-24 compared to yesterday). People in isolation at home, that is, those with mild symptoms, who do not require hospital treatment, or are symptom-free, total 923, -20 compared to yesterday, 88.4% of those sick. There are 12 ICU patients, one more more than yesterday, those hospitalized in the other Covid wards are 109 (-5). The overall healed people therefore rose to 23,097 (+71): 259 "clinically healed", which became asymptomatic after presenting clinical manifestations associated with the infection, and 22,838 those declared healed in all respects because they were negative in two consecutive tests. These are the new cases of positivity in the area, which refer not to the province of residence, but to the one in which the diagnosis was made: 4,542 in Piacenza (+2), 3,643 in Parma (+1), 5,001 in Reggio Emilia ( +1), 3,945 in Modena (no new cases), 4,869 in Bologna (+37); 403 positive cases in Imola (no new cases); 1,016 in Ferrara (+1). There are 4,974 positive cases in Romagna (+4), of which 1,042 in Ravenna (+2), 958 in Forlì (+1), 789 in Cesena (no new cases) and 2,185 in Rimini (+1).