A senior World Health Organization
(WHO) official said Friday that the new coronavirus hotspots
that have cropped up in Italy in recent days are to be expected.
"There is no concern because it was amply expected," Dr Ranieri
Guerra, the WHO's Assistant Director-General for Strategic
Initiatives, told RAI television when asked about hotspots in
Bologna and in Mondragone, in Campania.
"Both of the hotspots were identified immediately and
restricted, so the system is holding up.
"It is inevitable that there will be hotspots in Italy and
Europe".
Guerra also warned, however, that the coronavirus emergency is
far from over.
"COVID-19 is behaving as we had hypothesized," he said.
"The comparison is with the Spanish Flu, which behaved exactly
like COVID.
"It went down in the summer and resumed ferociously in September
and October, causing 50 million deaths in the second wave".
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