The Minister of Health Roberto Speranza looks forward to March 31 when the state of emergency will end. He does so because the health situation “is much much better” even though there have been “more cases in the last month and a half than in the whole pandemic” and defends the choice of compulsory vaccination for over 50s and the super green pass a work that will start from February 15th, making it clear that it will not be removed soon. It opens up to the hypothesis that the CTS remains in office even after the end of the state of emergency (“we will continue to hear from the scientific community) and announces the arrival of a” psychological bonus “for the Italians who have suffered the most in the two long years of Covid.
Hope: go ahead with obligation and green pass for over 50s
«From the 15th there is a mandatory green pass in the workplace: it is a right and targeted strategy. It is a targeted measure for people over 50 who are not vaccinated and who are most at risk of being hospitalized if infected ”, underlines Minister Speranza on the broadcast« Half an hour more »on Rai3. Who claims the choice by making it clear that there will be no turning back very soon: “The obligation for over 50s is a right choice that puts us in a position to look with more confidence in the coming months”. “We still have to insist on vaccinating, the more we dry the area of the unvaccinated, the safer the country is”, added Speranza, who remembers how it is “thanks to vaccines if we have withstood this terrifying wave, with over 200 thousand people infected a day, and we did not have a terrible hospitalization, there was a significant pressure with 1,700 people in intensive care but in the worst moments we had reached 4 thousand in intensive care ».
“We will continue to hear from the scientific community”
Minister Speranza does not even close the hypothesis of extending the Technical Scientific Committee even after the end of the state of emergency at the end of March. “If the CTS will remain? We will evaluate, there are no decisions yet. But we will still work closely with our scientific community. We will evaluate the technical modalities when we get under the March 31 deadline, but the government will continue to work with the scientific community. I believe that the relationship between politics and science, despite their autonomy, is a heritage of the country “. The Minister of Health also claims the choices on closures and reopenings: “We reopened all activities, the discos were the only one that remained closed, clearly there are rather strict regulations in force, you can only enter if you are vaccinated or cured and there is it is still a capacity limited to 50%. I think that at this stage we must have the courage to put all economic, social and cultural activities in a position to restart ».
The psychological bonus is coming soon
Speranza also announced the arrival of a “psychological bonus” for Italians regardless of age, to pay for psychological assistance. The pandemic has left profound marks especially in younger people, hence the idea of economic support that had already been proposed during the recent budget maneuver, but then the amendment was rejected: at that time the creation of a health fund was envisaged. ment of 50 million euros a year to finance two subsidies, one free and the other linked to the ISEE. Now the ministry is “working in these hours” to finance this bonus for psychological assistance with the measures that should enter the thousand-extension bill before the Chamber’s examination. «But be careful, with the psychological bonus we don’t solve everything, we have to strengthen the National Health Service. The bonus is a first sign and I am committed to it ”, explained Minister Speranza again, interviewed by Lucia Annunziata at half an hour more on Raitre. On January 4, among other things, a petition was launched on the Change.org website to ask the government to “really consider” the proposed psychologist bonus: up to 300 thousand signatures have been collected.