Covid, Battiston: “Rt plummets towards 1, the peak of active infections as early as next week. Then the curve will go down”

“It may seem incredible, but Rt is plummeting towards 1 and the peak of active infected in Italy could be reached next week.” Just as the WHO raises the alarm on the probable contagion of half of Europe, the analysis of the numbers of the Omicron pandemic in Italy carried out by Roberto Battiston, Professor of Physics at the University of Trento and coordinator of the Epidemiological Observatory of the same university, seems to indicate a different scenario: “The flare-up of people infected with Omicron, which began shortly before Christmas, could reach its maximum within a week and then go down “.