Viola: “Summer without a mask, but maybe it will return in September”

Will the upcoming summer be a summer without masks? “Yes, I really think so. I think that from 15 June, if the data continues to go in this direction, indeed we hope to see an even more marked decline in infections, we will be able to give up the masks and then eventually resume them in September”. This was explained by Antonella Viola, immunologist at the University of Padua and scientific director of the pediatric research institute Città della Speranza, to ‘Buongiorno’ on Sky Tg24. The expert specified that “we are out of the Covid emergency”, “no doubt, but the virus will continue to circulate and probably the masks will be recovered and we will still hear about vaccines”. At this stage, Viola recommends using the mask again “in the workplace, in places of strong aggregation and in places where we have to respect the health of others, for example a supermarket or a shop: we enter a supermarket for half a week. ‘now at the latest, but the cashiers stay there all day and are in contact with all the people who come in. Then the rest depends on the situation we are experiencing: if we are fragile, if we live with fragile people, we must be careful and use the mask in many situations except when we are outdoors; if instead we have no particular problems, I agree that we can use it at work and in very busy places, but otherwise give it up “.