Dragons file new Dpcm and prepare battle vaccines

(Adnkronos)

After Angelo Borrelli Domenico Arcuri will also go away, while Prime Minister Mario Draghi files the new Dpcm with the measures to limit the spread of Covid and its variants and prepares the ‘vaccine battle’.

Arcuri arrives at Palazzo Chigi around lunchtime, leaves by car from the exit behind the Prime Minister’s office after just half an hour. The sand in the hourglass seems to have finished its race for the number one of Invitalia: “dead man walk”, a minister jokes when answering those who ask if Arcuri, after Borrelli, is close to leaving.

From Palazzo Chigi they are silent, it is not known whether the now former super commissioner saw Draghi, whether it was the premier himself who gave him the welcome. Coming just a few minutes after the undersecretaries’ swearing-in, a message from the premier’s staff warns the press that General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo is the new extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency, complete with thanks from the government for “the commitment and the spirit of dedication “with which Arcuri carried out the task entrusted to him in the midst of the emergency, when there were no masks and respirators, the intensive therapies were in trouble and the bulletin of the dead did not stop his race.

As for Fabrizio Curcio, Draghi decides alone. But unlike Borrelli’s exit, Arcuri’s was in the air. Today to ask for ‘the head’ was also Forza Italia, following the request of Lega, Fdi and Italia Viva. While the Pd was silent and the M5S remained silent, the days in which Luigi Di Maio asked that Arcuri not be confirmed as the head of Invitalia are long gone. Since then, water has passed under the bridge, from number one of the National Agency for the attraction of investments and the development of companies, Arcuri has become the “commissioner of everything”, as his many detractors labeled him.

The Prime Minister changes the ‘protagonists’ to give a new course to the government strategy to combat Covid. An invisible enemy that does not slow down its course, on the contrary. The contagion curve is on the rise, Minister Roberto Speranza launches the alarm cry, “the next few weeks will not be easy and we must recognize them for what they are. Because it is the duty of politics and the institutions to tell the truth”.

And the truth leads to confirm the close, the moves on the chessboard follow the strategy of the Conte government. Draghi brings together the control room with the majority forces, the coordinator of the CTS Agostino Miozzo and the president of the Higher Health Council Franco Locatelli also take part in the summit. The draft of the Dpcm speaks clearly, there is no time for loosening, until April 6 we continue with the hard line, very hard. The game that remains open is that on schools, one of the most delicate, with the infections that run among the boys, worrying the experts. A further confrontation with the Regions before the signing of the decree is not excluded, which could take place on Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.

But if the game pattern remains the same on anti-Covid measures, on the vaccine level the government, Draghi in the first place, must give a decisive acceleration. Because the exit from the corner to the country passes from there, from the rush to achieve herd immunity as soon as possible. The replacement of Arcuri should be read in this sense. Because if it is true that the former ECB number one is pressing for a more incisive response from Europe on the number of doses, it is equally true that there are ampoules left in the fridge, unused. A mistake that is considered by many to be unforgivable. And that Borrelli and Arcuri seem to have paid dearly.

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