New Year’s Eve, the party is already over. New anti Covid squeeze: tampons and reduced Green pass

Each passing day the squeeze approaches and the balls go away. The government wants to understand how much and how to close ranks. On the one hand, the virus that runs fast already with the legs of the Delta variant; on the other, the wings of the variante Omicron against which Italy can fight quickly and with cunning but without the illusion of not paying prices, all the more so with inadequate sequencing and tracking. In the middle, the Christmas and New Year holidays to be defended and at the same time to be protected at the cost of unpopular decisions and countertrend trajectories. “We will evaluate the adequacy of the measures by reflecting with our scientists”, promises the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.

The new measures

Not everything that transpires will become prohibition – the game of anticipation to probe reactions is as old as politics – but the very fact that Mario Draghi relives the torments and twists of Giuseppe Conte a year ago reveals all the delicacy of the moment. Thursday Control room, after which the premier will decide. Because any choice, even the least welcome, is preferable to the dripping of hypotheses in swirling circulation. Those same hypotheses that perhaps turn into regional preventive choices, subtracting room for maneuver from the executive.

Buffers required?

The priority to social mobility is diminished, the defense of consumption loses its share. The measures under discussion are invasive: come on tampons for anyone wishing to participate in public events – including New Year’s Eve parties and dinners – at outdoor masks also in the white area, up to the shortening of the duration of the green certificate. Cinemas and theaters invoke clemency. The discos have less hope. The extension of the reinforced Green Pass – vaccine laws – to other working sectors is also being evaluated, following the example of what is already happening for health care, law enforcement, teachers.

Green pass rimodulato

The Omicron factor will be central to decisions. “The Green pass has the validity that we know, but in a month it could be rethought. If the Omicron variant misses the vaccine, it means that it is completely another virus. Now this Green pass makes sense but Omicron could completely clear the cards, “he admits Guido Rasi, scientific consultant of the Emergency Commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo committed to speeding up the inoculation of third doses and the first administration to the Under 12s.

Speed ​​up with vaccines

With “5 million calls in 10 days we can have a stronger shield”, crosses Hope’s fingers. The other goal of the government is to increase the sequencing of the virus in a “substantial way” to calibrate the predictive analysis of the new scenario. “But 70 laboratories for 60 million Italians are few”, acknowledges Rasi. The territories are asking for more.

Prohibited parties

Nicola Zingaretti, governor of the Lazio, is preparing to sign the ordinance that from Thursday 23 forces everyone to wear a mask outdoors despite the region being in the white zone. Even harder the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca who bans all parties with immediate effect, “with particular reference to school parties, graduation parties and similar events in dance halls, discos and similar places”, saving “only the conduct of lunches or dinners, in compliance with protocols in force, as well as other events exclusively in static form, with seated and pre-assigned seats “(outdoor masks are already mandatory).

“More personal”

“More funds for the fight against the pandemic and more people to enhance the tracing of infections and sequencing, in search of variants”: the request to the Commissioner starts fromEmilia Romagna, which asks for 120 soldiers, but Figliuolo offers availability for only 8 more units.