“Masks are useless for ac …”

Published on: 08/11/2020 10:21 AM

“The 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 the mouth, otherwise you will not catch it.” There is already controversy over the new Calabrian health commissioner, Giuseppe Zuccatelli, appointed last night by the Council of Ministers, after the words pronounced in a video that is currently circulating on the web.

“The virus is contagious if you have an association in which drops of saliva reach you for at least 15-20 minutes,” Zuccatelli says again in the video posted 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.

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