The 46 people who contracted Covid between Trieste and Gorizia after participating in the no Green pass demonstrations in recent days are all unvaccinated. This is confirmed by Fabio Barbone, the epidemiologist who leads the anti Covid task force in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

These are demonstrators who for days took to the streets "without a mask, spending a lot of time together, elbow to elbow - explains the epidemiologist - also in contact with people from outside, in a period in which the virus had already begun at the end of August circulating more than in late June and July. If there was even someone asymptomatic, the virus spread more easily. ”“ It's the perfect storm, ”he commented.

Among the infected people, only one is hospitalized, while there are eight port workers (seven in Trieste and one in Monfalcone, Gorizia) and a dozen secondary cases.

Yesterday Professor Barbone spoke of the "most important outbreak in the region", identified "after a fairly complex contact tracing process by the Trieste and Gorizia Prevention Department". In this sense, he invited people to participate and share information.

More up-to-date data on the spread of virsu are now awaited: the epidemiologist has feared the hypothesis that these data may in fact be "only the tip of the iceberg".

(Unioneonline / vl)