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June 11, 2020 "We must find ourselves prepared to handle a second wave of infections, which, however, if it ever happens, I don't think will have the size and scope of the first". Franco Locatelli, president of the Superior Health Council (Css) and member of the Technical Scientific Committee (CTS), said during the Agorà broadcast on Rai 3. "Predicting if and when there will be a second wave - he added - is a exercise by fortune teller rather than by scientists, but it is possible that with the return of the colder months, in late autumn or winter, there may be a recovery because the virus still circulates in many countries of the world, as we see from the data of Latin America and India"."Use counterproductive gloves"
As for the use of gloves, recommended in many guidelines for access to public places and shops, for Locatelli "they are counterproductive". "I agree - he specified - with the position of the World Health Organization, that is that in the population there is no need to wear them. A good and repeated hand hygiene is largely a substitute for gloves that give a false sense of security. of this pandemic - he concluded - also has a communicative responsibility. We need precision in the messages and sobriety in communicating them ".
"On the vaccine the Italian State is there"
"There is an international effort never recorded before in the history of mankind for a vaccine capable of conferring immunity of flock, that is a widely extended protection against the new coronavirus" and "the message is that the Italian state is there ". Locatelli replied that he was looking for a vaccine to stop the pandemic. "Getting ready for the vaccine is important," he stressed. And the effort that is being made "also includes some very innovative vaccine approaches. Our government has made important investments in this sense, just think of the research product that will be developed thanks to the investment made by the Ministry of Health, Research, Region Lazio and Cnr ".
"Immediately raised attention on areas with more cases"
Regarding the lack of red zone of Alzano and Nembro: "We have raised the attention on the areas where there were the greatest number of cases and have been done, with a strict timing and not wasting absolutely no time, all the analyzes that allowed the political decision maker to make the appropriate choices, "said Locatelli.