Milan, 10 April 2021 – Il Chiledespite a wide vaccination campaign, is tight in the vice of the various Covid, and does not yet see the wave of infections slow down: yesterday new record of cases per day, with 9,171 positives detected in the last 24 hours. The problem, according to the virologist Andrea Crisanti, director of the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padua, must be sought in the greater infectivity of the variants, and in the choice of a vaccine that is not effective against these mutations, but also in too hasty reopenings, relying too much on the serum.
“I think we have to watch very carefully right now to the situation in Chile, who vaccinated many people against Covid and, despite this, it is in the midst of a transmission crisis. Sars-CoV-2 infections are on the rise and many variants have spread that are creating many problems despite the shield injections “.
According to Crisanti, the Chilean crisis “is explained by variations. Surely in this country a Chinese vaccine which is not quite one of the best in the world, Sinovac, and evidently has not proved effective enough. But it’s not just this. They are full of variants and the transmission continued in a sustained way, fueled by free all, by the relaxation of restrictions “.
Instead Britain has vaccinated while maintaining a rigid lockdown regime, things that did not happen in Chile “there was a lack of measures and restrictions to stop the transmission of the virus”.