“We have good news: it seems that we have reached a plateau, and the curve in terms of“ omicron ”is going down,” Tgcom24 quoted him as saying.

He stated this during a visit to the vaccination center in Milan.

Filiuolo expressed hope that the current wave of COVID-19 could now subside quickly. 

Earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) expert Maria van Kerkhove said that variants of the coronavirus could appear in the world that would be more infectious than the Omicron strain.

In December, infectious disease specialist Dr. med. Nikolai Malyshev, in an interview with Nation News, recalled the importance of following preventive measures against the backdrop of the detection of the Omicron coronavirus strain.