“Omicron 5, and the countries where it has already circulated predominantly, South Africa first, is very contagious, but not very pathogenic. Will we have an increase in infections in the coming weeks? Surely yes, but contagion does not mean disease” . The microbiologist reiterates the difference between positivity to Sars-CoV-2 and Covid pathology Maria Rita Gismondoafter the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) projected an increase in cases driven by the sub-variants of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, Germany is experiencing what its health minister calls a “wave summer “, and also in Italy the virologist Fabrizio Pregliasco fears” a wave of 100 thousand infections detected per day “, earlier than autumn.
“I believe that summer will be serene, as we deserve – the director of the Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Bio-Emergency Diagnostics Laboratory at the Sacco hospital in Milan tells beraking latest news Salute – and we hope the autumn and the seasons to follow “.