Negative to the pre-hospitalization swab, a patient at the Montevergine clinic in Mercigliano tests positive immediately after entering the health facility.

In the meantime, however, he infects 5 other patients with whom he had come into contact. Thus the outbreak erupts in the clinic which has now stopped hospitalizations and is discharging all patients, except those whose conditions do not allow it.

In the next few hours, all the environments will be sanitized, while the screening of the staff, who have already been vaccinated, has given a negative result. The clinic's activities will be suspended for a few days. The Calitri outbreak is also a cause for concern.

In the small town of Alta Irpinia, there are more than one hundred new positives to coronavirus found in the last 3 days. Two different birthday parties are thought to be the origin of the infections that affect multiple families. The mayor has asked the ASL of Avellino to proceed with mass screening to contain the spread of the virus.