Omicron variant, Galli: “We await a significant increase in infections”

“We expect the” Omicron variant of covid “to cause a major increase in infections.” “The World Health Organization foresees it and the first data coming from some countries indicate it”. So at Adnkronos Health Massimo Galli, former director of Infectious Diseases at the Sacco hospital in Milan. “This virus has created a wave every time a new variant has arrived – he highlights – and it has done so even in a situation where there are significant vaccination rates. The vaccine will prevent us from even more deaths and having to shut everything down. , however, the problem persists and measures must be taken “. As for the Government’s decision not to provide for any obligation for outdoor masks, “it seems to me a slightly too Solomonic choice. Quite frankly I would have preferred that it had been prescribed that the mask must be available to people who they leave the house, so that they can be worn when crowded situations arise “, he told Adnkronos Salute. Such a prescription, according to Galli, “would also be useful for sanctioning people who unjustifiably do not have it even in crowded situations. And in any case, it is perfectly fine for Municipalities and Regions to make autonomous and articulated decisions from situation to situation”. “If on the one hand it is ridiculous to say ‘everyone’s mask’, even when they walk alone in the mountains, on the other hand, when you arrive in a shelter with a crowd of people, you must be in a position to put it”, highlights Galli, convinced the usefulness of an obligation to carry the mask “to use when necessary. This is the appropriate indication”.