Delta variant, Pregliasco: “English fans in Rome? A trouble”

The European football championships could become a vehicle for a wider diffusion of the Delta variant of covid in Italy. After England’s victory over Germany, thousands of English fans are expected to arrive in Rome for the next match against Ukraine in the quarterfinals and “the risk unfortunately rises”. To tell Adnkronos Salute is the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan. “It is a problem – he says – because it is clear that the probability of contagion with a single contact is low, but the more contacts there are, the easier it will be to have a situation of risk and therefore of potential infection”. In short, “there is the possibility of a rip-off – warns the virologist – And I don’t know how much the Green pass in this initial phase has such a systematic and adopted effect, so I don’t even know how much at the landing at the airport, or against whom it will arrive by different means, you can control it “. After all, he adds, “providing for 5 days of quarantine would cost the fans a ton of money”. So how to defend yourself? “You have to close yourself in the house, in the hut, and wait for the buriana to pass. But I see it as difficult – concludes Pregliasco – also because it is not that they recognize each other and then the virus, once inside, spreads” .Pregliasco describes it as “absolutely useful “the decision of Los Angeles County to return to make the mask mandatory indoors and in public places after the spread of the Delta variant. With this variant we know that “the risk of infection is absolutely also for the vaccinated. With the first dose – recalls Pregliasco – we have a coverage of 30%, two more do but the virus can ‘pierce’ the vaccine”.