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Italy says Omicron has peaked, cases in decline

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Italy appears to have reached a peak in the number of Omicron infections, with cases of the highly contagious variant now on the decline, the country's Covid Emergency chief has said, according to AFP.

“There is good news: it seems that we have reached the plateau of the curve for what concerns Omicron and it is going downhill,” commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo told journalists in Milan.

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