Covid Uk, Bassetti: “Infection peak? Small steps in Italy and 2022 end of restrictions”

“The British have chosen a different philosophy from ours, they have lifted all the restriction measures for months. Since July they no longer use the mask, before reaching vaccination coverage similar to ours. We, on the other hand, with lead feet and small steps, at the end of December, between vaccinated and immune, we can reach 90% of the general population “. So at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa, on the peak of Covid infections in the United Kingdom. “From the beginning of 2022 we could therefore also say goodbye to other measures such as the Green pass and the mask indoors or outdoors – says Bassetti – So on the peak of cases registered in the United Kingdom I say: let’s look at our home. the strategy we have put in place to date “. “On the English numbers – he explains – it is then necessary to pay attention: it is true that there has been a surge in infections, higher than in July; but then, if we see hospitalizations and deaths, they are not proportionately so high. About 145 deaths , but it is a country that traveled with over 1,000 deaths a day “.