Covid, Pregliasco: “Roma fans? Eclipse of consciousness, Delta will run”

“After the eclipse of conscience” that was the Italy that took to the streets en masse for the victory at the European football championships, an explosion of joy that was actually “difficult to contain”, the ‘eclipse’ was repeated in the past few hours with the gathering of thousands of Roma fans in the historic center of the capital. This is how the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the State University of Milan, comments on the controversy about the ‘yellow and red variant’ risk. “A crowded situation causes and will cause a speeding up of what is the run of the Delta variant” of Sars-CoV-2, he tells Adnkronos Salute. In this phase of the Covid-19 epidemic, Pregliasco warns, “it is essential, in my opinion, to practice common sense”. Which also means “limiting discretionary contacts: we must focus on those who are really needed – exhorts the virologist – at work, in daily life, in social relationships”. “We are in a phase of” new “exponential growth that is only just beginning. I fear that there will be a further advance “of Covid infections in Italy,” and a homologation with what has already happened in other countries “such as England. In times of Delta variant “it is a destiny and unfortunately we will have to deal with this scenario”, continues the virologist, commenting on the data of the weekly monitoring on the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic. Is it the dawn of a fourth wave? “Let’s just hope for a blow of the tail – replies the doctor – but in fact it will be”.