Galli: “If Omicron 5 is more widespread, we will notice it”

“If Omicron 5 really confirms its ability to spread more than the previous variants, there will again be an increase in infections sustained by this virus. And we will notice, even if it is not easy to estimate when this will happen.” Massimo Galli, former director of the infectious diseases department of the Sacco hospital in Milan, explains this to Adnkronos Health. Therefore, it is difficult “to predict when exactly there may be a net increase in cases due to Omicron BA.5. It is possible that it will be in autumn. But until autumn many things can happen – specifies the specialist – there is in between an austral winter. There are countries where the vaccination rate is low and this is not an element of reassurance, both for the ‘rush’ of the virus’ and for the development of variants “.