New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says

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'In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,' said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

ROME - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.

"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. 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.

"We've got to get back to being a normal country," he said."Someone has to take responsibility for terrorizing the country.""Pending scientific evidence to support the thesis that the virus has disappeared ... I would invite those who say they are sure of it not to confuse Italians," Sandra Zampa, an undersecretary at the health ministry, said in a statement.

 

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