ROME – The Covid infection rate has increased to 24 percent, as Omicron re-infections reach 8.4 percent, over four times higher than Delta.
Head of Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli, told Sky TG24 of a “clear underestimation of the number of new cases” due to at-home tests. “A lack of protective measures coupled with the high contagiousness of the circulating Omicron variants, Ba.4 and Ba.5” has led to a viral increase, he added.
The strain Ba.5 accounts for over 30 percent of the circulating strains, is more contagious and more easily able to evade antibodies.