Italians must learn to live with the
COVID-19 virus so as not to "block" the country, Health
Undersecretary Andrea Costa said Monday but Health Minister
Roberto Speranza demurred saying Italy was still in a big fight
with the virus.
"I've always said that the goal is to get to the stage of living
with the virus and living with it means, in my opinion, also
taking into consideration the idea that those who are positive
and non-symptomatic should avoid isolation and quarantine," Cost
told RaiNews24.
But Speranza said the current data showed that Italy must still
battle the coronavirus and not get resigned to co-existing with
it.
"The challenge of the pandemic is still open," he said,
stressing that "the latest data indicate that we are still in
this fight, albeit with tools that we lacked in previous years,
in the first phase of the battle against COVID".
Speranza said the real challenge was now to "turn the greatest
crisis of the last few decades into the possibility of a restart
for health policies".
photo: Speranza
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