New Covid-19 outbreaks in Rome, Italy, 109 positive cases

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ITALY’S capital Rome has become the centre of two new clusters of coronavirus infections over the weekend. Local paper Roma Today reports that there are now 109 Covid-19 cases and five related deaths in a hospital in the west of the city, while an apartment block is the focus of the other outbreak.

The San Raffaele Pisana hospital in the capital has now reported 109 new cases of coronavirus and has said 4,000 tests have already been carried out in the city in order to track and contain the spread.

Over the weekend, an apartment block in Piazza Pecile in the working-class area of Garbatella in the capital became the centre of another Covid-19 cluster. After testing the occupants, 52 occupants including both positive and negative cases of coronavirus were moved to hospitals or isolated in a hotel. Authorities now say the Garbatella cluster is “closed.”

“No one had any illusions that the problems were over,” WHO assistant director Ranieri Guerra said. “It means the virus hasn’t lost its infectiousness, it isn’t weakening. We shouldn’t let down our guard.”

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