Risk of epidemic returning is high says Italian expert

There is a high risk of the coronavirus epidemic returning after it has run its course first, an expert told ANSA.

“The risk of a return of the COVID-19 epidemic, even after a period of absence of new cases like for the comune of Vò Euganeo (in Veneto) exists, and it is high,” said Pier Luigi Lopalco, professor of hygiene at the University of Pisa and epidemiologic chief of Puglia’s coronavirus emergency task force.

In the case of Vò, he said, “the report of a new case after days of absence, could be linked to the movements or the weight of people without symptoms”.
Lopalco added that the epidemic would go on “for a long time and perhaps the turning point will come this summer”.

He said lockdown measures should be gradually lifted “with extreme caution” even after cases start falling significantly.

Lopalco said people would have to get used to staying at home for a “protracted period”.

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