The specter of Covid no longer hovers over Sanremo 2024 but “if there is someone who presents particularly evident respiratory symptoms, we will do a swab“. Words of Giorgio Ardizzone, doctor of the Sanremo Festival and director of the emergency department of the ASL 1 Imperiese.
Gone are the days of the 'balloon audience' as the only presence in the audience at Sanremo 2021, or those of the Super Green pass required of the audience at the 2022 Festival. There will be no anti-Covid restriction to complicate the 2024 event starting on 6 February , as there already weren't any in the 2023 edition. Goodbye to the pandemic stakes, but not to prevention on stage. “If there is someone who presents particularly evident respiratory symptoms, we will do a swab. As is normal, to avoid, even if it were a flu syndrome, which by continuing to work in close contact with colleagues could perhaps cause a small epidemic “, an outbreak, explains Ardizzone to Adnkronos Salute.
Routine precautions, therefore, “but certainly nothing comparable to the years in which the situation of the country and especially of the hospitals was dramatic”, recalls Ardizzone who inherited “the scepter” of Festival doctor from “Stefano Ferlito, who was the head of 118” and managed “for many years” the health plan put in place by the ASL in the days of Sanremo.
“After he retired last year, I arrived. For me this is the second Festival” and it will also be the last, because “at the end of February I will also retire”, underlines the anesthesiologist-resuscitator . “Already last year we found ourselves in an easier situation – he specifies – there was no longer the obligation to swab for the competitors and presenters” and “from this point of view I can say that I was lucky: I escaped the period of greatest concern”, smiles Ardizzone. “Already last year, and even more so this year – he concludes – the Covid problem is no longer there”.
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