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2 March, 2020The scientist from the University of Zaragoza values that the measures taken by countries are "effective" and insists that the risk should not be exaggerated.
The director of the Center for Encephalopathies and Emerging Communicable Diseases of the University of Zaragoza, Juan José Badiola Díez, has explained that the time to avoid a global pandemic of the Covid-19 virus has passed. He has also pointed out that the spread of the virus in countries like Japan or China makes it a pandemic "in practical terms."
In this sense, Badiola has described the measures that countries such as Italy, Japan or Saudi Arabia are taking as "effective" when there is already a "high" risk that a concentration could constitute an element of "magnification" of the epidemic.
Likewise, the director of the Encephalopathy Center has criticized the decision of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to eliminate the epidemic response team from the National Security Council in 2018, pointing out that the United States "like all countries in the world is exposed to epidemics".
"Mr. Trump must think that politics can do everything, but in the end it is the citizens who decide, in this case, the perception of risk," Badiola continued, in reference to the US president's statements in which he downplayed the importance to a possible epidemic of the virus in the American country.
indigenous cases
Regarding the possibility of indigenous cases of coronavirus in Seville and Madrid, Badiola explained that the virus is transmitted by air "but by infected people who come on airplanes", which is why he understands that the traceability of the process has been "lost." ".
In the case of Seville, the director of the center has indicated that there has been a change in the protocol for identifying flu and pneumonia cases. Badiola explained that the next step is to carry out an investigation to identify the individual who initiated the transmission and establish "if there really was a chain of infections."