Health Minister Speranza: "don't let your guard down"

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07 September 2020 "We must not take anything for granted. As you know, Covid continues to have significant numbers, so woe to let your guard down".

Health Minister Roberto Speranza returns to talk about Covid, respect for the rules, the occasion is a visit to Siena, to the biomedical incubator Toscana LIfes Sciences.

"We have months - underlined the minister - in which we still have to resist in view of a safe vaccine and safe treatments like those we hope will start from the research done in this building".

“In recent months - continued Hope - we will still have to respect the rules, therefore the use of the mask and the spacing of at least one meter.

Fundamental rules that our country has learned and that we must keep ". 

Speranza recalled that the virus still circulates and the level of attention must be raised." The hope is that in a few months we can to have good news both in the field of vaccines and treatments ".

Then there are young people or rather there is the importance of their role. They are those who, said the Minister of Health," have paid a huge price in recent months starting from the suspension of school and university activities. ”Now we have to ask him for a hand:“ because the virus does a little less harm to those who are young, are strong and have a little less pathologies ”.

"The risk that young people can transmit the virus to their parents and grandparents exists and exists - concluded Speranza - we continue to ask young Italians to respect the fundamental rules, starting with the use of masks and from a distance of at least one meter ".