Covid, Crisanti back in the storm. Labate: “No one defends him anymore”

Andrea Crisanti again at the center of the controversy. The microbiologist, elected to Parliament by the Democratic Party, announced that he had tested positive for Covid and someone, says Tommaso Labate in Corriere della Sera, accused him of having taken a flight from Rome to Venice following the news of the illness due to coronavirus. But in reality it was just an exchange of people. “A journalist asked me if I was on the plane to Venice and I said yes, thinking she was referring to the London-Venice flight I took on Monday, before I found out I had contracted Covid, when I only had symptoms, in true I was wearing a mask… I only understood later that they were asking me to account for a flight from Rome to Venice on Thursday, but at that time I was with the doctor who was signing a certificate, ask Alitalia, Ita, that is whatever it is is now called airports, whatever you want”, says Crisanti.

“It’s difficult, very difficult, to defend yourself when you’re right, but you can’t find anyone to defend you anymore. Especially because Crisanti probably doesn’t have many friends anymore. The partnership with the Venetian governor Luca Zaia, which began in the days following the first infections in Vo’, ended worse than a divorce with stamped papers, with mutual exchanges of accusations, exposed at the Public Prosecutor’s Office (again by Crisanti), some managers under investigation and lots and lots of bitterness. With the left having nominated him in the foreign constituency (with the Democratic Party) and elected him to the Senate, perhaps things will be even worse, due to that consultancy for the Bergamo Public Prosecutor’s Office that called into question the anti-Covid provisions of the Giallorossi government ” , the portrait that makes him the journalist.

“Crisanti, however, doesn’t care about them. Look and pass, as you always did”, comments Labate about the virologist, always in the midst of public discussions.