"We are in a very serious situation with high levels of Covid transmissibility. The next holiday period, in which contacts between groups of people increase, can make things worse. With the further expansion we await from the Omicron variant, the situation could really pass. from bad to worse, therefore other preventive measures must be taken, in parallel with an expansion of vaccination ".
This was stated by the director of the European Agency for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc), Andrea Ammon, in a public session of the EU Health Council.