Omicron variant, president of virologists: “It runs in Lombardy, over 50% in the Milanese”

The Omicron variant runs in Lombardy: “In some areas of the Milanese it is already prevalent, over 50%, while in the Brescia area it is around 20%, but growing rapidly”. This is the snapshot taken by Arnaldo Caruso, president of the Italian Society of Virology (Siv-Isv), who in an interview with Adnkronos Salute promises “in a very short time a change in the dominant variant of Sars-CoV-2: in January Omicron will prevail over Delta throughout the region “, estimates the expert, full professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the University of Brescia, director of the microbiology laboratory of Asst Spedali Civili. Read also “By now – he specifies – the variants that we find are two, Delta and Omicron, while the others have practically disappeared. Omicron grows fast, as was expected since this mutant is much more infectious than Delta and destined to supplant it”.