Don't drop guard against COVID says Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 30 - Now is not the time to lower our guard against COVID-19, with the infection curve rising amid reports of the first Omicron cases in Italy, President Sergio Mattarella said Tuesday.
    "The resurgence of infections reminds us not to lower our guard and calls us to the utmost responsibility in our individual and collective behaviour, to combat the circulation of the virus and not compromise the freedom which we struggled to regain in our economic and social lives," he said in a message to the president of self-employed tradesmen and artisans' group Confartigianato, Marco Granelli. (ANSA).