Ranieri Guerra, WHO: “I don’t see the risk of a new lockdown”

Flooded with data that is partly reassuring and partly not on coronavirus infections, the question that everyone is asking is, will there be a new lockdown, is the epidemic getting out of hand? According to Ranieri Guerra, WHO Deputy Director, member of the Scientific Technical Committee, interviewed by Corriere della sera, we can rest assured for now.
“There have been no explosions of cases, it is a slow rise of positive people that does not lead for the moment to blockages in the hospital. The monitoring system gives the possibility to check the situation with precision and promptness and to understand if it gets worse ”.

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In this, the discipline of the Italians is rewarded with respect to other countries. In short, we have understood that it is better not to joke with the virus. And so is management at the political level.

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“All reopenings were made at intervals of 14 days, according to the incubation times of the virus and following very precisely the recommendations of the WHO – continues Ranieri Guerra – which not by chance brings Italy as an example of how to to bring a very difficult situation under control. After each opening follows the verification of the impact on the circulation of the virus and, if positive, it goes on. Each reopening has an implicit risk. Now we await the data of those of schools, nurseries, universities and public employment. These considerations led the CTS to consider the return of the public to the stadiums inappropriate for the moment. We are waiting at least mid-late October, also considering what is happening in Spain and France “.

So Ranieri Guerra excludes “the risk of total closures”, but underlines how it would be better to proceed for ever better to download all the Immuni app: “It would help to combat the epidemic, especially with the arrival of autumn which will bring with it an inevitable increase in Covid cases that can be confused with ordinary flu “

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