Bassetti to Speranza: “Italy is yellow for vaccines, not closures”

All of Italy in the yellow zone not for closures, but thanks to vaccines. Matteo Bassetti underlines this at Adnkronos Salute. “I’m sorry to contradict the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza but the benefit in terms of reduction of cases is not linked to the closures but is linked to vaccines. Denying it is a mistake. These good results are linked for 80% to the immunizations that have the elderly and the frail are safe, then 20% will be linked to other measures. Here in the hospital where I work in Genoa I register for the third day in a row not even a Covid entrance to the emergency room, something that had not occurred since summer 2020 “, says the director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa and a member of the Covid-19 crisis unit in Liguria, replying to what Minister Speranza wrote on social media: “Italy will all be in the yellow area. result of the measures adopted, of the correct behavior of the vast majority of people and of the vaccination campaign “. Read also “Now, however, more courage is needed – adds Bassetti – even with initiatives on masks or on avoiding swabs for vaccinated people: we work to remove the obligation of the mask outdoors, starting with the vaccinated. Then whoever wants to can also continue to But we are in a very good situation. I hope – he concludes – that we will soon be able to do everything again: full cinemas and theaters, stadiums with fans.