Covid, the requests of the Regions: fewer closures and more vaccinations

Accelerate the vaccination campaign, review the timing of the measures and the review of the parameters that regulate the areas, provide for compensation also for local closures and combine health security with economic recovery. These are the requests that the Conference of Regions has forwarded to the Government and which will be brought to the Council of Ministers tomorrow.

VACCINES The Regions consider the vaccination campaign to be top priority. “The mechanism is going too slow – reads the document – the problem now lies in the supply of doses, which depends on the Government.” “It would be desirable and urgent – write the Regions – an assessment of the direct involvement of our companies in the production process, bearing in mind that there are national companies and supply chains capable of carrying out some stages of production ».

TIMING OF THE MEASURES The Regions ask to know the anti Covid measures “well in advance”. “It is also necessary to be able to plan the activities also through a different organization of the examination of the data of the control room, of the ordinances and of the relative effect”, they write.

PARAMETER REVIEW The Regions ask for “a revision of the parameters and the contextual revision of the system of the zones, in the sense of simplification, which also passes functionally from a revision of the protocols for regulating reopening”. They are calling for “a change of pace that will allow health security measures to be combined with economic recovery and cultural and social activities”.

MORE SLIMMER MECHANISMS “The prerequisite for taking valid decisions is to identify a strategy that is based on objective technical-scientific elaborations on the basis of which politics will take responsibility for the decision”, write the Regions, asking for “new and more streamlined mechanisms that see a clearer definition by CTS and ISS “regarding the limitations and activities to be closed.

RESTAURANTS “In a structural way, the same measure that introduces restrictions for the country and then particular restrictions for individual territories, must also activate the indemnities and safeguard the responsibilities, guaranteeing contextuality regardless of who adopts the measure.” This is the request of the Regions that they also ask for “the expansion of the control room for the Ministers of Economic Development, Economy and Regional Affairs.” SCHOOL For the Regions “it would be necessary to qualify school and university activities (like other activities) with a specific risk numbering, also taking into account the objective data of the contagion in educational institutions and in the reference territorial context. “The territories also ask for” forms of parental leave and additional financial resources to support parents, in the event of school closures. ” ask to be guaranteed vaccination to all teachers “regardless of the region in which pres tano service “.