According to the infectious disease specialist Massimo Galli, the virus continues to circulate in Italy and in the world: “It is a fact – he notes – that in southern Africa there are almost perfect conditions for them to develop new variantswhich are randomly selected and, if they have the opportunity to take over, they do so, just like BA.5 “. On this,” we have no elements that tell us that it is able to evade vaccines and thus cause a severe form of the diseasebut the evidence suggests it can cause infection, “he adds