ROME. Reduced quarantine and only for close contacts of the positive: According to the Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa, this would be the orientation of the government regarding the management of Covid cases in schools. “We absolutely need to review the quarantine issue,” he said Radio Me too on Radio Rai 1, and to do so, the executive’s orientation is to “no longer trigger the quarantine for the whole class in the face of a positive case but only for students who have been in closer contact with the positive” and to “reduce the terms” of isolation, since “we are dealing with vaccinated children”.
Regarding the extension of the Green Pass in public and private workplaces scheduled for October 15: “There is a bit of concern: when there is a strong and massive extension of a measure like the Green Pass, the first few days there could also be problems. But I believe that the Italians have well understood the importance of this tool, so we are confident ».
Instead, for the reopening of the discos “we are currently at a possibility of 35% capacity but today” in the Council of Ministers “there will be the final decision, and in these hours I hope there is still the possibility of reaching 50%: this it is my wish and my opinion ». “The important thing – he added – is that a signal to restart finally arrives for this sector”. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, also spoke on the subject on the sidelines of the 78th Fimmg congress in Villasimius: «In recent months we have always put forward the right to health. Let’s not forget where we were and where we are now – he says – Italy had a huge number of limitations months ago, today we can afford a series of openings and possibilities that were far away before. We continue gradually on this path. We don’t have to read each passage like a snapshot of a moment. And we continue to strongly say that the freedoms obtained are due to an extraordinary vaccination campaign ».