Protests against restrictions there with 12 police officers being injured in clashes overnight. so it's just really across the board. every country is handling it a little differently as they go into this holiday -- the next phase of the holiday season with new year's coming up. max? >> it could be, couldn't it, because so many people are testing that the numbers are going up. so that might be skewing the omicron variant numbers slightly. is that a theory? >> reporter: well, you know, you look at the number of positives against the number of swabs. in italy over the weekend, they didn't do ver...