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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 01 June 2020Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization's emergency program, in the usual video conference briefing with the press from Geneva, after the controversy that broke out in Italy following the words of Alberto Zangrillo , expressed caution on the statements of the head of Anesthesia and General Resuscitation of the San Raffaele Hospital, according to which the virus "no longer exists clinically".“We must be extremely careful not to give the impression that the virus, of its own accord, has suddenly decided to become less pathogenic. There's no point in giving this impression, "said Ryan." This is still a killer virus. There are thousands of people who die every day, but we fight it better, "he stressed.
" It is not in the interest of a virus - he remembered - to kill everyone who infects, we have seen it with children, but the contagiousness and severity do not they have changed. However, we have learned to reduce transmission and we are also studying whether the intensity of exposure to the virus, as in the case of health professionals, can play a role in the severity of the disease ".
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recalled that in total "we now have more than six million Covid-19 cases worldwide and have already lost 370 thousand people".