Covid today Italy, “peak new wave not yet arrived”

Coronavirus and contagions that run in Italy, but the peak of this latest wave “I think has not yet arrived”. So Giorgio Palù, president of the Italian drug agency Aifa, guest of Sky Tg24. “Last year – he explained – there was an exponential growth” in the cases of Covid-19 that this year “we have not yet had, but that we could begin to have. We will see what happens with Omicron. I think we will have to overcome winter, especially the month of December, see in January what happens, it could be a repeat of last year. And I think the peak has not yet arrived, but we also see that in some European countries the curve is flattening and therefore we have a little bit of confidence. ” All the measures against Covid-19, Palù continued, “are inspired by the utmost caution, prevention and protection from infection”, such as the hypothesis of a mandatory swab “even if one is vaccinated with three doses, on the occasion of major events “. “Another option is to consider the vaccination obligation”, which “is in any case up to politics”. Palù is in favor of the use of masks outdoors, while for the fourth dose of vaccine against Covid-19 he would wait to “evaluate the Clinical impact of the Omicron variant – he underlines – There is already the technology to adapt vaccines to the new variants and we are discussing whether it is possible to speed up the time for vaccination “.