State of emergency extension, Crisanti: “After 2 years we still talk about it”

“A possible extension of the state of emergency in Italy? It depends on what it is for”. Virologist Andrea Crisanti thus comments on the prospect of a further extension of the state of emergency to Adnkronos Salute. “I think that a state of emergency which lasts 2 years is no longer a state of emergency. It becomes a state of continuity. solution of normality “to deal with Covid-19. “England that I know of the state of emergency does not have it, America I do not think either. I am surprised that after 2 years we are here. To go beyond the state of emergency – observes the director of the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padua – there must be a bipartisan agreement. And I really think that this bipartisan solution should be found, having the courage to make the laws to deal with this epidemic not in an emergency, but structurally. emergency, it means that Italy with normal means is not able to face the epidemic. And this in itself is an anomaly “, reflects the expert. Does the debut of the Omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2 in the panorama of global contagion change the cards on the table? “It is really too early to say whether we should fear Omicron. We have to wait”, concludes Crisanti.