“We need a 2-month lockdown, cases will increase”

Published on: 12/21/2020 2:28 pm

“We need closure now.” Walter Ricciardi, scientific advisor to the Minister of Health, calls for more restrictive measures with immediate effect, also to counteract any effect of the new covid variant, considered more contagious. “We need more continuous and longer mobility control measures. I would have adopted more restrictive measures, as Germany and Austria did,” he says, speaking with Sheep’s Day and judging that the measures taken in view of the holidays are not enough.

“Austria has a blockade until January 16 and then will allow you to leave your home after a swab. The only option we have is to limit movement and then start tracking again. In the first phase we did a rigorous blockade in the first phase for 2 months and only after that closure did we see that the chain of contagion was interrupted “, he continues.

“If we think by analogy, it took us 2 months to lower a number of cases less than the current ones. We need at least a similar period. It will be a long battle. Minister Speranza has always been more in favor of stricter measures, yes. compare with equally legitimate positions, “he says again.” I had recommended “in October” selective closures that they made in Australia and New Zealand, where they now celebrate Christmas with hugs and kisses. “

What conditions will we reopen on January 7? “We have to live with the virus, but at low circulation levels, 100-200 cases per day. If we lose control, we are always chasing it. I think that in the next few weeks we will have a slight increase in cases from everything we have seen. in the streets “, in days characterized by the agglomeration of purchases. “There have been contacts and this English variant has already arrived, probably for some time. And this could explain why in some parts of the country the circulation has been more sustained ”.