Delta Covid variant, Ricciardi: “Present in Italy, more tracking is needed”

“The Delta variant of Covid is present in Italy. We need to increase testing and tracking to prevent it from spreading. And another of the things we need to watch very carefully.” To tell Adnkronos Health is Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. “We must avoid what happened in Great Britain where, in a few weeks, the Delta” or Indian “variant has become dominant. And this – he warns – is done through a more intense and rigorous testing and tracing mechanism”. Ricciardi then said he was “absolutely in favor of the extension of the state of emergency”. “It is not over, although we are certainly in a positive phase. But, in the world, the pandemic is still there. In 2021 it caused more deaths than in 2020. So we must continue to be careful”, he says about the possible extension. , on 31 December, of the state of emergency expiring on 31 July. Then, with an amused joke, Ricciardi comments on the words of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, who in an interview with ‘La Stampa explained that he has not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19. “Hope unvaccinated? I didn’t know. I’m just going to him. Now I’m going and trying to get him vaccinated,” he says.