COVID-19 LOSING VIRULENCE, CLAIMS ITALIAN DOCTOR

The COVID-19 is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, Italian Dr. Alberto Zangrillo, head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the Lombardy region said on Sunday, May 31, 2020.

“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy… The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,”

he told RAI television.

Italy has the third highest death toll in the world from COVID-19, with 33,415 people dying since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21. It has the sixth highest global tally of cases at 233,019. However, new infections and fatalities have fallen steadily in May and the country is unwinding some of the most rigid lockdown restrictions introduced anywhere on the continent, Reuters reported on May 31, 2020.

Zangrillo said some experts were too alarmist about the prospect of a second wave of infections and politicians needed to take into account the new reality. “We’ve got to get back to being a normal country,” he said. “Someone has to take responsibility for terrorizing the country.”