“Even people under 40 in intensive care”

BELLINZONA – The peak of the infections of this second wave is still far away. The cantonal doctor Giorgio Merlani is sure of this. Tonight he took a photograph of the pandemic situation in Ticino. “The winter is long” and it will be necessary to wait “at least four or five weeks” before the numbers begin to drop, Merlani specified to the microphones of the Chronicles of Italian Switzerland.

The cantonal doctor then made a profile of the victims of this second wave. Identikit that closely resembles the one profiled in March. “Basically we are talking about people over the age and often suffering from certain pathologies. At first glance, the average age is between 75 and 100, mostly with previous illnesses ”, he explains to the transmission of RSI. In any case, Merlani warns the whole population. The disease, in fact, can also affect young people very seriously. “There are even people under 40 in intensive care.”

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