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05 July 2020 "Italy is not in a bubble. This week there were on average about two hundred thousand cases a day in the world. It is clear that we are exposed to a return infection or to the reactivation of transmission outbreaks that has not been completely eliminated. This dynamic was fairly expected, it is happening in Israel, China and Australia. The most important thing is to check if we have the ability to detect these outbreaks and to put them out quickly. I think that at the moment the system has abundantly shown that it can ". This was stated by Andrea Crisanti, professor of microbiology at the University of Padua. "The strategy is very simple, you have to test all the contacts of the infected people, all the family members, friends, neighbors and work colleagues. If you do this, the people to whom the infection was eventually transmitted are intercepted. This is the recipe that works, "he added.

For Crisanti, moreover, "sixty million Italians cannot be put in coercion. We must accept the fact that in this situation outbreaks will erupt and will be even more frequent in October and November. The most important thing is to give clear messages to the Italians without saying lies It must be said that the risk is there, that we are not in a bubble and that the behavior of social distancing and the use of masks must not be abandoned. The thing that worries me most at the moment - he added - is the possibility of returning to Italy, without being able to intercept them, of infected people who can rekindle the outbreaks. The second thing that worries me most is that people think that the risk is over. You can put under surveillance people who come from areas in which the transmission of the virus is particularly explosive. There are the means to track the movements and the people who arrive must be monitored, not only with the temp erature that serves no purpose, "he concluded.