COVID: Hope students stop wearing masks next year - Draghi

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 20 - Premier Mario Draghi told students from a school in Sommacampagna near Verona Friday that he hoped Italian school students would not have to wear COVID face masks from next year.
    "I hop that next year there will no longer be the need for facemasks," he said.
    "I hope the pandemic does not return.
    "I know how much you have suffered; at your age it is important to be together".
    On Ukraine, Draghi said "what we have to do is seek peace, make sure the two (sides) stop firing and start talking.
    "I told Putin 'I'll call you to speak of peace' and he told me 'it's not time'. 'Perhaps you two can solve the problems, why don't you talk?', 'it's not time'.
    "I had more luck in Washington talking to President Biden, I told him to phone. The suggestion had greater fortune because their ministers spoke to each other". (ANSA).