Rezza: risky to open some areas before others

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There is talk of reopening staggered towards normality but according to Giovanni Rezza, director of the infectious diseases department of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, it makes no sense to reopen first in some areas of the country. "I would look at the closures - explains the epidemiologist in an interview with Repubblica - apart from perhaps I would have done some more red areas in Lombardy, when the measures were taken for all of Italy they certainly curbed the virus race in the center-south Instead, in the few days that some regions of the north have been closed and the others we have not seen the leaks from those areas, this is why perhaps reopening in a staggered way may not be effective.And then most of the production activities are in the north. What do we do, we open it later because it has had a greater spread of the virus? ".

Rezza adds that "we must also try to promote teleworking in all those sectors where it is possible" and "when reopening, social distancing must be maintained. Therefore, measures must also be taken on public transport to reduce capacity".