Costa: the premises will reopen with the green pass criterion. Alarm in Campania and Friuli for the Delta variant
While the infections remain below one thousand (yesterday 835) and the positivity rate is stable at 0.4%, the outbreaks of the Delta variant, which emanate sparks here and there along the boot, take care of the summer. But the return to normality now seems close even for the people of the night, who on July 10 could go back to raging in the disco, as well as in dance halls and dance halls, the kingdom of differently young people.
Undersecretary for Health Andrea Costa, who has been dealing with the managers of the clubs for days, met yesterday with the owner of the ministry, Roberto Speranza, and at the end of the face to face he announced that «within the first ten days of July the discos they will be able to reopen with the green pass criterion “.
So to go back to dancing, either you got at least a dose of vaccine or you have recovered from Covid in the last six months, or you have a tampon. The last word will be up to the CTS experts, who, however, have already had an idea. It is okay to allow entry to those with a green pass, but for now the scientists would like to limit themselves to giving the green light only to outdoor venues.
Even if the pressure of the political forces rises, with the Minister of Tourism Garavaglia urging the reopening “respecting the protocols”, while the president of the Silb managers’ union, Maurizio Prasca, asks not to go beyond July 4 and invites the Interior Ministry to watch over the squatters, who would have already opened the dance without respecting any security protocol.
The return to normality also passes through the signing of the ordinance with which Speranza formalizes the stop to the obligation of outdoor masks from 28 June. To threaten the restart, however, are the variants with which we still have to deal. The Delta in particular, more contagious than 60% of the already more transmissible English and that it is not yet understood to what extent it manages to pierce the vaccines.
On Tuesday the ISS sample flash survey started, even if the data will be known in a few days. In the meantime, however, from the analysis laboratories that carry out the sequencing of the virus, signals are not very comforting. In Campania, out of 321 samples analyzed, 170 were with the brand of the English variant but 82 of the Delta, in practice one case out of four. Ditto in Friuli Venezia Giulia, where out of 96 samples analyzed 25 were found to be of the former Indian variant. And an outbreak of the Delta has also been discovered among the logistics workers and their close contacts between the provinces of Piacenza, Cremona and Lodi, where 25 cases are sequenced and isolated.
Speaking of isolation in the government, in the meantime, the idea, supported by experts, of abrogating the quarantine for vaccinated people who contract the virus without experiencing symptoms begins to make its way. This is because their infectious capacity would be more or less zero. But it is on that margin, albeit minimal, of uncertainty that the final decision is still being played, which must first of all be taken by the CTS.
News could also arrive on the healing times from Covid that give the right to the green pass. Today, anyone who has been cured for no more than six months is considered as immune as a vaccinated person. But that time frame could be extended to ten. With the not secondary effect of helping the vaccination campaign too, given that those who have not long been cured of Covid are entitled to only one dose for now.
All vials saved, while in these hours the fear of a decline in the trend of administrations is spreading, which causes the lower number of deliveries expected between mid-July and the end of August could drop from more than half a million today to 400 thousand punctures. daily average. Not the best way to face the advance of the Delta variant that does not seem to spare Italy.