Delta Italia variant and yellow zone, divided experts

The Delta variant and the increase in infections are worrying, to the point that we are again talking about the yellow zone. But on the possibility of a return to somewhat stricter measures against covid, experts are divided. From the government for now, the message is clear. “At the moment I do not see, with the current numbers, the need for a return of some Regions in the yellow zone. To date there is no such risk but let’s see what happens in the next few weeks”, said the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri, guest of ’24 Mattina ‘on Radio24. “We have low numbers and I don’t see any restrictions coming back at the moment,” he added. Read also “As of today, data show that Italy remains white”, said the Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa, guest of ‘Newsroom Italia’ on RaiNews24. “Today we must observe not so much the infections, but the hospitalizations. The wish and the hope is that Italy will remain blank, but it is necessary to evaluate the data daily and weekly”, he stressed. Pregliasco “Unfortunately, some restrictions may also be foreseen, it is horrible but it could be necessary”, virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan, told Adnkronos Health, on the hypothesis of a return of some regions in the yellow zone. For the moment, he explains, “the tampons for me are the fundamental element because the more tampons we make, the more positive we find, the more we control them and the less they infect”. To date “we have blocked and reduced the front of the fire, but we have so many fires that if we do not monitor we will escape”. Bassetti “If we are not able to apply the Green pass, what do we want to talk about. The feeling is that this is a country that is all good when schools, bars, restaurants and discos have to be closed.When there is a need to build coexistence with the coronavirus, with some simple rules such as the Green pass and tracking, we struggle. So the return of the yellow zone is nonsense, we have to enforce the rules that exist. Before closing again, we must be serious with people and enforce the measures that exist “, Matteo Bassetti affirmed with Adnkronos Salute, Head of Infectious Diseases at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa. “Then it is enough to terrify people with the Delta variant – he warns – So you don’t go anywhere. We try to give simple and clear information, that people can follow”. Andreoni “Those interventions to be done always remain the same: if the cases increase we will reach the yellow, then orange and red areas. The color system has never changed. What should emerge very strongly is that we need to achieve this blessed herd immunity. If we can we can even think, at the limit , to let the virus circulate “, 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, told Adnkronos Salute.