Tomorrow the government decree with bans and restrictions to stop Covid infections. And there are those who ask for longer school holidays. The principals: wrong measure
Prohibitions and restrictions for the New Year holidays, mandatory masks outdoors throughout Italy, third dose five to four months early after the last inoculation, green pass valid only six months. Faced with an epidemiological curve that rises and health structures that risk going into trouble, the government decides for a rigorous tightening. Without excluding drastic measures for the unvaccinated, including the curfew.
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The decree that will be approved tomorrow will guarantee the opening of businesses and shops, but will not be able to take into account what is happening in the rest of Europe and in our country where the infections exceed 30 thousand, there are a thousand hospitalized in intensive care and 153 dead.
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The words that the Prime Minister Mario Draghi pronouncements in front of the assembly of ambassadors mark the way: The vaccination campaign has allowed us to save lives and to reopen the economy, schools, places of our sociality. The arrival of the winter season and the spread of variante Omicron oblige us to the utmost caution in the management of the coming months. The prime minister himself has always put the executive’s top priorities the presence of students at school, but the control room called to Palazzo Chigi will decide whether it is necessary extend the holiday by two weeks as you ask Come on Italy.
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The parties
Last night, after the meeting with the leader of the 5 Stars Giuseppe Conte and Leu Roberto Speranza, the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta he confirmed his concern for what is happening and his support for a policy of severe measures. The leader of the League Matteo Salvini claims to be contrary to the mandatory tampon, otherwise who has done three doses then wonders “why did I do all this?” and the important thing is that there are no closures at Christmas, New Year, Epiphany: we let people work, but still appears possible when he explains that he is awaiting proposals.
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Variante Omicron
The first evidence on the presence of the variante Omicron in Italy delivered to Draghi by Cts scientists confirm the contagiousness of the mutated virus and they suggest that by mid-January there may be a new peak. In front of a situation of maximum alert, experts are calling for a further boost to vaccination by reducing the interval times for the booster and booster. But also severe restrictions to avoid gatherings that could cause serious consequences.
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Recall at 4 months
As is already happening in other states, the decree could contain the green light to carry out the third dose four months after the second, in order to reduce the risk for the lack of vaccination coverage already highlighted with the passage of time compared to Delta variant and now also for the Omicron.
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Green pass a 6 mesi
The shortened interval inevitably leads to one lower validity of the green pass strengthened. The current 9 months are now considered harmful to ensure adequate coverage and it seems obvious that they will be reduced to 6, if not even 5.
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Swab at the parties
In the disco, at New Year’s Eve parties, to other events where distancing is not guaranteed even those who have been vaccinated must present a tamponand with negative results carried out in the previous 48 hours. Many mayors and governors have already placed bans on the celebrations in the square but if the epidemiological picture were to worsen further, it is not excluded that the ban applies to all of Italy.
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Curfew
excluding that can be fixed a curfew for everyone, but open the discussion to impose it on whom not vaccinated.
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Vaccination obligation
Some ministers, in the lead Renato Brunetta, they press to impose the obligation to vaccinate all workers. A measure that would take effect in January, after the Christmas holidays. But it might be expected by the end of December for some categories, i employees of public places where do you do catering e who works in contact with the public, the front office of the public administration.
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The school holidays
The statement of the infectious disease specialist Massimo Galli on the need to think of one postponement of holidays whether things go badly or very badly, has sparked the controversy. The decision will certainly not be made tomorrow, because depend on the
peak of the Omicron variant and only in the case of a surge similar to the one currently underway in Great Britain, further measures could be considered while now we are not in this condition, clarified the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri. But in any case a hypothesis not discarded and for this reason for the president of the National Association of principals Antonello Giannelli it is a measure without any use: the main way remains that of vaccinations.
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