Covid, Pregliasco: “Shaking hands and hugs? Let’s see in spring”

Coronavirus in Italy and desire to return to normality, but “it is not yet time to abandon the new etiquette, before ‘adda passà’ a nuttata ‘and’ a nuttata ‘is winter”. The virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, professor at the University of Milan, curbs the enthusiasm and the “understandable” desire to return to the daily gestures of greeting. “To return to handshakes and hugs – he tells Adnkronos Salute – let’s see in the spring, maybe then we could start to loosen up a bit but first it’s a risk”, he warns. “Even if – notes the virologist – there is already someone who does it. Every now and then someone shows up with my hand, but I dodge it”.