Euro 2020, Andreoni: “We will pay for celebrations with some outbreaks”

“It is clear that we will inevitably pay for something in terms of infections with some outbreak”. Massimo Andreoni, scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit) and head of Infectious Diseases at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome, is lapidary in commenting on the gatherings for the celebrations of Italy’s victory over Spain in the European semi-final in London of football. “Every time there are gatherings and an uncontrolled condition something emerges – he explains to Adnkronos Salute -. At the moment in Italy there is not a great circulation and we hope that events and clusters linked to European matches will be modest”. Holidays “Reading the epidemiologists data, we see that the decline in cases has been halting for a few days and the Delta variant worries us a little. Something is happening and for this I appeal to those who are leaving for the holidays, to be careful in any case in respecting the anti-Covid measures that we know well by now and not to let our guard down “. “The situation for now has few cases and we have more vaccines than in summer 2020 – remember – but be careful, otherwise it is easy to fall back into mistakes made in the past”. School The reopening of the school in September “remains a risk” he says , then, Andreoni, commenting on the pressing of the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, on over 200 thousand unvaccinated teachers. “The data, albeit somewhat controversial, have shown that institutions remain places where there can be an amplification of the Covid infection. Precisely for this reason we must do everything to vaccinate teachers and children in these missing 2 months, otherwise it will be really hard to reopen them safely “. “At the opening of schools we will already have the Delta variant as predominant in the country – warns the expert – for this reason it will be crucial to have everyone vaccinated with the double dose”. And on the hypothesis advanced by some experts, of creating separate classes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children, Andreoni is very clear: “Putting all the unvaccinated together is a biological bomb. One positive is enough and everyone gets infected. Better – he maintains – diluting the boys between immunized and not, so the virus has a harder life “.