Rome, 12 November 2021 – But this year can you ski? “At the moment I see no signs that would make it impractical the ski season as it happened in past years “, is the response of the Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, date in the weekly press point on the progress of the epidemic.
Covid Italia, the bulletin of 12 November
For Rezza you can ski, but with the health certificate within reach of .. glove: “He Green pass it is an important prevention tool. Of course it takes common sense. If the situation worsens to the point of assessing the need for further restrictive measures, I cannot rule it out now, but I hope not. ”
Green pass, towards the close. The hypothesis: give it only to the vaccinated
Favorable to the ski season, but the opposite would be strange, Valeria Ghezzi, president of the national association of cableway operators (Anef). Interviewed by the breaking latest news agency she explains: “Ski resorts must be opened only to vaccinated people following the model of Austria. Yes to the green pass but not with the swab and vaccine even for children. I defend the winter season: last year in Switzerland the open lifts did not lighten but not aggravate the situation “.
The winter season in Italy in most of the districts should start between the weekend of November 26-27, and the weekend of December 4-5, with full operations towards the Immaculate Conception.
“In this period in Italy there are plants open unlike last year which were all closed. Now you can ski in Cervinia, in Val Senales and on Col Gallina above Cortina d’Ampezzo “, Ghezzi recalls: “In my opinion the green pass should enter the information if a person is vaccinated and the relative expiration date but today these data do not appear on the first screen of the application”.
But the problem remains how to check the green pass. “The current rule is impossible to put into practice in the ski lifts sector”, warns the president of Anf, in fact “the ski slopes are not like going to the cinema or in a stadium where there is a checkpoint but are free and who and how will check the passes? “.
So Ghezzi herself asks some questions: “With the cold the mobile phones are unloaded, the piece of paper with the snow crumpled and then, in which place are the passes checked? At the parking lots? At the cash desks? At the start of the plant? the risk of long queues and gatherings would be very high “.
This is why Ghezzi is confident, but remains cautious about the possible opening of the ski season. “Now the infections are rising and this is not a good sign. The government must tell us how to proceed with the checks: I can only say that another canceled season would definitively kill the mountain economy which, instead, must be safeguarded for everything. what revolves around “.
“The vaccinated cannot pay for the minority not vaccinated because, if this were the case, the message would pass that the unvaccinated person is right and it would not be right to beat people who try to work “, Ghezzi complains:” I still have no ski lifts closures but the risk is there . Before closing a plant or an area, the public administration would intervene. “Then he reminds the government of the promised refreshments:” there are not yet, there is a promise, we hope it will be kept “.
The Swiss operators are also confident in the snow season, both for the demand of the Swiss and for the return of foreign tourists. Many bookings have come from Germany, Belgium and Holland for Crans-Montana, Verbier and Zermatt.
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