Coronavirus in Lombardy, Pregliasco: “Evaluate curfew from the aperitif”

Milan, October 22, 2020 – Lombardy and Milan seems special to him boom of contagion of Coronavirus. The second wave broke with more than four thousand new positives Yesterday. Almost half, 1,858, in the province of Milan and 753 in the city. Will the new measures adopted by the Government and the Lombardy Region be enough?

“Is about a first squeeze, it’s just a crackdown, but two or three may need to be done in a few weeks. Close other aspects too, swimming pools, games rooms, all that is somehow superfluous “, Virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco said ‘Every Morning’ on TV8, responding in particular to the situation in the Lombard capital. “I think this first step – he explained – was a difficult decision for the political balance between health and the economic aspect. It is a first step and it will be necessary to evaluate the effects that we will unfortunately see only after one or two weeks. And in the coming days, I am afraid, we must expect a further increase in cases and think about broader chains that were the indications that the Scientific Technical Committee had and suggested ”.

“The element that Merkel also said – Pregliasco stressed – is to avoid contact as much as possible. We must assume that any human contact is a potential risk. We think that it is above all a call to citizens and that in some way we see a reduction in the less essential part of the contacts, but I am afraid that it cannot be entirely satisfactory and we will have to go further ”, he concluded.

Pregliasco does not exclude the possibility of performing Milan ‘red zone’: “The establishment of a red zone should be considered as a last resort, but if the epidemiological picture worsens even more and the curve does not reverse, that would also be a possibility to evaluate”, and if so, it should affect “the entire metropolitan area “. . At this time, the doctor stressed, “we have to plan a series of restrictions in a rational and coordinated way. Initially in the form of recommendations”, but if these are not enough, “in serious situations” the restrictions should become “more strict or mandatory. “. And finally, a proposal: “We could evaluate the curfew from opening time, say around 6 pm.