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This time, said Ranieri Guerra, WHO’s deputy director general of Strategic Initiatives, “we can count on what we have learned in recent months.” His statements also about rapid tests, lockdowns and school.
“The South at this moment is experiencing what was the initial wave in the North.” This was stated by Ranieri Guerra, Deputy Director General of Strategic Initiatives of the World Health Organization, aside from the work on “Post Covid-19 Health” at the Bellini Theater in Catania. However, to be able to count on all the lessons we have learned – he added – with principles that were not there before: trained and competent doctors, therapies available although not conclusive and above all with the capacity of interception and very early diagnosis “.” The southern regions , including Sicily, which were preserved from the first wave – observed Guerra – perhaps they thought they had come out with little damage but what is not because this is a virus that gallops with human mobility and that is why it is inevitable that sooner or later you will arrive “.
War against rapid tests and locks
deepening
Coronavirus, mini-confinement in Latin province for 14 days
Rapid tests, Guerra said in Catania, “are undergoing significant technological development.” “I hope – he commented – have less invasive rapid salivary tests in a month than in 10 minutes, with colorometric values, they will be able to give us an answer with great precision, compared to the current ones, on the positivity of Covid-19”. As for the possibility of a new lockdown after the increase in the numbers of the coronavirus pandemic, he is convinced that if the trend does not worsen there will be no need. “There could be some temporary, very sectoral and limited in specific areas where the outbreak is beyond the control we have at this time,” he said.
Safe schools
deepening
Covid, 223 schools closed and more than 1,490 with infections. The situation
“Schools in Italy are safe – said the Deputy Director General for Strategic Initiatives of the WHO – but they inevitably lead to an increase in coronavirus cases because it is a large and varied community that opens up and contributes to the spread of the virus, but more and more. ”“ But more than schools, I would go and look at the obstruction of public transport, catering, social events, entertainment reopening to social life that have led to a decrease in caution, ”concluded Ranieri Guerra.
