What awaits us after the restart of the country and the reopening of activities will necessarily be a life of "special supervised". To explain the reason is the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco, from the University of Milan, underlining how the new password for the near future must be 'gradualness'. "We cannot think - says Pregliasco at ANSA - that the recovery and reopening of activities and social life will happen overnight and as if nothing had changed. The recovery must in fact take place with a gradual exit strategy and I believe that we will still have to keep some limitations. "
For example, he notes, "I think that limitations will still have to be maintained for a long time for events that cause large gatherings." And again: schools and businesses reopened, "we will have to continue to adopt precautionary measures such as the safety distance". The restart also, according to the expert, "should also take into account a gradualness on the basis of age groups, with greater precautions for the elderly and the most fragile subjects".
But above all, the life we will have to imagine will be a life of "special supervised": "We will reopen the country, but we will always have to be on the alert to immediately identify any new case of SarsCov2 coronavirus, to immediately proceed with a massive intervention. with the isolation of the individual case and the execution of carpet pads on all the contacts. It will therefore become essential to immediately identify a possible single outbreak to shut it down immediately and avoid a new spread of the epidemic ". This is because the risk of a return epidemic "is present as a large part of the population, not infected, remains susceptible to the virus and could be affected in a second wave". Hence the need to always live "with the guard raised" and "under surveillance".
Pierluigi Lopalco, professor of Hygiene and at the University of Siena and epidemiology manager in the coronavirus task force of the Puglia Region, also calls for maximum caution in view of the 'after'. At the restart "it will be necessary to adopt prudent measures to prevent the risk of a return epidemic, also considering the role of positive but asymptomatic subjects", he warns. From Chinese studies it would seem that the dispersion of the virus by asymptomatic positives, he explains, "would occur for 4-5 days, therefore for a limited time. Isolation measures, therefore, are also effective to defuse the risk of transmission from asymptomatic ". It is presumable that, even after the restart, "new outbreaks may exist. For this - he concludes - we must think of a very strong surveillance system".
