Coronavirus, Crisanti: “There will be an increase in cases but a manageable situation. From Laurentiis? He was irresponsible”

“We wait a growth in cases but we are still in one manageable equilibrium situation. So we can live with low levels of transmission, because 1500 cases are not comparable to the same at the end of February and the beginning of March, when people had already been tested at the end of life and therefore all the asymptomatic ones were missing. There were probably 35-40 thousand positives in those days. Today we are far from those numbers ”. Say you are the virologist Andrea Crisanti, Director of Microbiology at the University of Padua, who speaking to the microphones of ‘Agora‘on RaiTre he took stock of the situation on the progress of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy, where cases are slowly but steadily increasing. The latest bulletin from the Ministry of Health talks about 1,597 new infections in the last 24 hours, more than 150 more than the day before.

Crisanti then also commented on the case of the Napoli president, Aurelio De Laurentiis – positive result in the Covid after having participated, despite some suspicious symptoms, in the assembly of the Lega Calcio in Milan -, describing it as “irresponsible, a sick person should stay home, especially in these situations. A person like him should set an example with high visibility ”.

Regarding the hypothesis of his future in politics, the virologist explained: “I have received offers from politics, but I rejected them because I thought that my contribution could have a greater impact on the field. Seeing that the cases were increasing, I thought that it was not correct to betray the expectations of all those who have worked with me and those who trust me. IT IS more important to fight the virus than to do politics“.

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