“The masks do not serve to ca …”. Storm over Zuccatelli, Calabria’s new health commissioner. Then rectification: “They are fundamental”



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Controversy over More expensive me COVID-19. “Masks are not good for a ca … What you need is the distance, because to catch the virus, if I were positive you would have to kiss me for 15 minutes with your tongue in your mouth or you will not catch it.” Controversy already exists over Calabria’s new health commissioner Giuseppe Zuccatelli, appointed last night by the Council of Ministers, after the words pronounced in a video that currently travels the web. “The virus it is taken if you have a frequent meeting in which the drops of saliva reach you for at least 15-20 minutes “, Zuccatelli says again in the video published on the Facebook page of Calabrian senator Marco Siclari.

His appointment came late in the afternoon after the resignation yesterday of Commissioner Saverio Cotticelli, who had admitted in a television interview that he was not aware of the Government’s provisions nor that he had also been appointed by the Government for the operational program of management of the Covid emergency.

Covid in Calabria, Cotticelli torpedoed. New Zuccatelli Commissioner: “But I’m sure I’m ending the quarantine”

“Look, I have tested positive and I am ending the quarantine, we will speak in the next few days,” Giuseppe Zuccatelli, the new commissioner for the payment of Calabrian health debt, said yesterday, after the resignation of gen. Saverio Cotticelli, who left office due to the controversy as a result of his interview from which it appears that He did not know that it was his responsibility to prepare the anti Covid plan in Calabria. Zuccatelli is currently the extraordinary curator of the Pugliese Ciaccio di Catanzaro hospital and the Mater Domini university hospital, also in the Calabrian capital.

The change

“Masks are part of the fundamental strategy to combat Covid 19. Therefore, I invite everyone to use them, as well as to respect physical distance.” This was stated in a note by the new Commissioner ad acta for the health re-entry plan in Calabria, Giuseppe Zuccatelli, “in relation – he reports – to the press reports”. “In the first phase of the epidemic – adds Zuccatelli – the international scientific community believed that the use of masks should be reserved only for the infected and medical professionals. The experience of recent months, however, has taught us that it is a virus in many respects still unknown in terms of evolution and mode of spread. Knowledge has been consolidated over the months, according to the scientific studies carried out ». “My wrong statements, incorrectly extrapolated from a private conversation – concludes the Commissioner – they go back to the first period of spread of the infection ‘.

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