Covid Italia, Pregliasco: “15-day lockdown, the most effective but impossible solution”

“Restrictions? A 15-day lockdown would be the most effective, but it is impossible. What we can tell the institutions is to make public health interventions to limit the number and frequency of these contacts.” This is the opinion of the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, health director of Irccs Galeazzi of Milan, who spoke on Cusano Italia TV. “So far the prudent behavior of the majority of Italians, the great desire to get vaccinated and the progression of openings – explains Pregliasco – have made us manage better this period. Now we are at a turning point, in a difficult and particular moment, which combines the Christmas holidays, the desire to be together. So it is another very delicate point for the government. In this phase every human contact has a potential risk of infection. So, what can be said to the institutions is to make public health interventions – he suggests – to limit the number and frequency of these contacts. A heavy lockdown for two weeks would be the most effective thing, but it is clear that it is impossible, I am saying this as a prime example. The government is evaluating intermediate solutions, which are not easy because there is no measures”.