Rome, July 14, 2021 – Italy attempted, but divided, on the Green Pass template France. Lega and Fratelli d’Italia already yesterday excluded the possibility of applying the anti line Covid of Macron who placed the green certificate as a condition for access to restaurants, bars, concerts, transport and in general to events with many people (“Let’s not joke,” said the leader of the League Matteo Salvini about it. “Chilling idea”, the comment of Giorgia Meloni). But this morning on the columns of the Messenger is the Undersecretary of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri to formalize the ongoing assessment in the Government.
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For Sileri, one must immediately follow the French example (“It is certainly a right choice”), applying the Green pass “seriously”: no quarantine for those who have received two doses, parameters to be reviewed within a week or two. “Let’s think of discos – he continues -, if we allowed clubs to open for customers with the Green pass, we would have the rush of those between 18 and 40 to get vaccinated”. Because “the Green pass today is a means of not going back when the infections will be higher”. And about the parameters. “We will have to increase the importance of the hospital fill rate.”
According to Sileri, the Macron method should therefore also be applied in our country. “We should do it in Italy too, don’t ask me why we haven’t started yet, I have told Speranza so many times”. The same undersecretary last night, however, was more cautious on the subject: “The Macron model for the Green pass is useful – he said -, but we are already ahead because we have a better epidemiological situation”.
Undoubtedly, the compulsory Green pass to access restaurants and transport causes politics to be debated. If some members of the Democratic Party ask to “extend the green pass to all places of sociality”, for the M5s deputies in the Social Affairs Commission the hypothesis is “premature and raises questions for those who must forcibly resort to the swab”. The leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, on the other hand, it is said “due to the vaccination obligation for health and school personnel”.
The Regions on the French line went yesterday in no particular order. And today, in the columns of our newspaper, the governor of the Marches Francesco Acquaroli (Brothers of Italy) rejected the measure: “Better to work on protocols and establish clear and common sense rules”, his thought. What is certain is that the Green Pass turning point could be useful to remove the specter of a return to yellow areas, a scenario that terrifies the governors, who climbed the barricades yesterday to reiterate how the rise in infections cannot be taken as the only parameter to “justify new restrictions”.
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In the meantime, Macron, who has also established the vaccination obligation for health workers, on pain of stopping salary, yesterday collected a million bookings for the anti Covid vaccine in 24 hours. But the restrictions introduced by the Elysée divided the country. Numerous unions protested, stressing that vaccination “must be a personal initiative that must be respected”, as stated on the website of the France 3 channel. On the Green Pass, Le Figaro and some television channels have given ample space to the request of restaurateurs to postpone the entry into force of the new measure.
Le Monde instead dedicates an article to adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age who will be exempted until August 30, while for all adults the new rule will come into force from August 1 for restaurants, bars, airplanes, shopping centers, trains and buses and from 21 July to places of culture and entertainment. The derogation, the article reads, was announced by the Minister of Health, Olivier Ve’ran, in order “not to ruin the holidays of families”.
Macron’s “political” intervention, about 9 months after the presidential elections, also found prominence in the speeches of some television commentators, for example on the all news channel Lci. There has been talk of a “turning point in communication” which reveals his intention to reappear in the race for the Elysée (at the moment he has not yet announced his candidacy). Le Parisien instead dedicates an article to the Qr Code which will allow restaurateurs to read the customers’ health pass explaining that the staff will only be able to read the customer’s name, surname and date of birth and, next to it, will see a red or green signal.
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