Covid, Ricciardi: “Lockdown in October? It cannot be ruled out”

“The Delta variant must worry us: it is creating problems from Great Britain to Colombia, we must not make the same mistakes in the past when the virus was underestimated. Probably the number of infections in the United Kingdom will also be in Italy, but if the population the more fragile the effects on mortality will be protected and hospitalizations will be the same as in England, therefore very limited “: This was stated by the consultant of the Ministry of Health, Walter Ricciardi, guest at ‘The Breakfast Club’ on Radio Capital. On the hypothesis of possible lockdowns in October, Ricciardi said: “In the fight against the epidemic, nothing can be excluded, but we have every possibility to avoid it, if we continue to respect all the measures that are still in force and intensify the measures even more. vaccinations. If we do not do it, we will cause an increase in cases and we cannot exclude the introduction of measures that reduce mobility “. Discos “are typically dangerous environments with a virus that spreads through the respiratory tract, especially with such a contagious variant. It only takes a few seconds to be infected. Discos will only be able to reopen when a very strict control is ordered with access allowed only to those who are vaccinated, who has already had Covid or who is certainly negative for the swab. As soon as an infected person enters a nightclub and there are susceptible subjects, transmission is sure “, Ricciardi warned.