Covid quarantine, Zaia: “Change the rules or we’ll send half of Italy”

The rules must be changed “or we risk quarantining” half of Italy “for covid. Luca Zaia, president of the Veneto Region, says this in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Contagions with the Omicron variant “are destined to grow further. But we have to look at hospitalization and there the numbers are a third compared to a year ago. The scenario has changed radically”, observes Zaia. “The growth is exponential. Today in Veneto there are 80 thousand positive people, just over a month ago there were 8 thousand. These numbers depend on the quantity of tampons and we do more than all the others – underlines Zaia -. Not by chance we have a positivity index of 4.89%, well below the national average (7.57%). But I want to underline another aspect. Between hospitalized, infected, close contacts and anything else we risk sending half of Italy into quarantine . Thousands of people have already taken the third dose and who, despite being asymptomatic, are forced to remain in isolation for 7 days as they have had contact with a positive “. “I see that in the United States it has been decided to limit the quarantine to 5 days for everyone. We are facing a global problem, we must look around to understand how to move”, continues the governor. Who, in view of today’s meeting of the Technical-Scientific Committee, asks “to evaluate whether asymptomatic third dose vaccinated people can avoid quarantine”. The technicians, of course, “are them, but I think that for those who have already done the three doses and have no symptoms, they can throw their hearts over the obstacle. This would not be new. In March 2020 when the quarantine was for 15 days, the government issued a decree at our request to allow asymptomatic doctors who had contacts with positives to continue working. Otherwise, the hospitals would have emptied “. We must “act with common sense. The scenes we are witnessing these days, the long lines and the hours of waiting for tampons, are not a good show. We have to ask ourselves a few questions”. “The European Center for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases (Ecdc) in recent days recommended the use of the do-it-yourself tampon, at least for those who are asymptomatic. It is a solution that we have proposed several times in the past but they have always opposed. Instead we should invest more in the relationship of trust with citizens because this would allow us to play as a team. For us it is a fundamental sector (18 billion in turnover). Cancellations, fear of contagion and quarantines are making themselves felt. Precisely for this reason we must turn the page “, says Zaia. “I know very well – he specifies – that this is not the ‘standard goal’. But in the face of the numbers we have said, we cannot get lost in disputes or disquisitions. We must lighten the impact on public structures otherwise everything is paralyzed”.