Interview to former mayor of L'Aquila amid the mass screening

The former mayor of L'Aquila, Massimo Cialente, swabbed the first day of the mass screening for the local population in L'Aquila, Italy, on December 3, 2020. "If I had been mayor in this situation" said Massimo Cialente "I would have made sure to listen to the document that was prepared by the doctors and technicians of the hospital and above all I would have worried about having more swabs made in L'Aquila in time real and more tracking. We would not have found ourselves like this. I hope they all respond to this screening. If all of us citizens of L'Aquila could do it, even considering a percentage of false negatives, I believe that in ten days we will have solved this situation in our city that saw us at the level of Milan. I believe the government is trapped between those who want reopenings and those who are prudent and in these cases one must have the strength to choose. I found myself in a similar emergency situation with the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009. You have to choose without looking at consensus when there is an ongoing emergency ”. Swabs, in one of the largest hubs in central Italy, were held until late in the evening.