Omicron has reached the plateau. Word of the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, who spoke on the sidelines of the visit to the Portello vaccination center in Milan.

"There is good news, it seems that we have reached the plateau of the curve as far as Omicron is concerned and we are going downhill", he said. "We hope this is the consolidated trend, in the last two days the number of entrances in hospital it is less than the number of discharged and this bodes well ".

A curve, says Figliuolo, "closely linked to the good progress of vaccinations, on which we are doing very well".

"The campaign is moving forward according to the rhythms we had envisioned. At this moment we have exceeded 87% of people totally vaccinated and we are at 30 million and 300 thousand boosters on a possible audience of 39 and a half million now - he concluded -. So this meant that there was a good barrier against the Omicron variant. "

Figliuolo also stated that Italy is now seen as "an international reference point, we are a benchmark and I am proud of this, not for me but for all those who have been working tirelessly for months to ensure that we can go out. from this emergency ".

(Unioneonline / L)