Covid Italia, Ricciardi: “Peak still far away, government measures are good”

The strong increase in Covid infections, which has been registered in Italy in recent days, “is not yet the peak, in January there will be a very strong increase in cases”. Walter Ricciardi, scientific advisor to the Minister of Health, who was a guest on Sky Tg24 this morning, warned. In our country it is therefore “foreseeable a number of cases similar to that seen in other European countries”. “With the Delta variants and in particular Omicron, which even surpasses it by 4-5 times, vaccination, even with two doses, is essential because it avoids ending up in hospital and dying, but it is not enough – he explains -. there will be two pandemics, one of the unvaccinated, which will have serious consequences, and one of the vaccinated, which may become infected, with those inconveniences of having to stay at home, take swabs and isolate themselves “. “Vaccinations therefore remain fundamental – underlines Ricciardi – but behavior is also needed at this stage, and government measures are used to make us adopt healthy behaviors”.