From the Covid data in Italy of the last 7 days, “the infections, it is true, have increased, but I am not worried”. To tell time.news Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa. “We don’t have to look at the positive tampons or the percentage of positives, because they don’t tell us anything. We have to look at the serious cases, who goes to the hospital, why they go and how long there is. This data is constantly falling. Covid departments are nearly empty or are emptying. I would be worried if we had gone from 600 people in intensive care to 700. There is less attention to the problem also because people are fed up with the restriction measures. We must not give up everything but some measures must be lightened “.
“We must continue to talk about Covid because we must think about how to defend ourselves, vaccinations for those who have not done so and also the recall, put on a mask when needed. But I believe that the problems will come from outside Italy and we must be careful “, warns Bassetti, referring to the arrival in Italy of refugees from Ukraine, a country where the vaccination rate against Covid is still at 30%.