Over a quarter of a million people in Italy signed up for COVID-19 immunization within hours. This mobilization is, it is emphasized, the effect of the government’s actions, which extended the use of the Covid pass as mandatory for admission to many places.
- The Italian government decided that without the green pass, i.e. vaccination against COVID-19, it will not be possible to use, inter alia, from restaurants (inside), amusement parks, gyms
- This prompted Italians to sign up for vaccinations. Within a few hours, 250 were added. willing
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Coronavirus: Green Pass in Italy
The government of Mario Draghi decided on Thursday that from August 6, the so-called the green pass will entitle everyone aged 12 years and over to enter a restaurant in closed rooms, to the theater and cinema, to participate in various sports events, to the swimming pool, gym, fairs, conventions, amusement parks, thermal baths and games rooms .
There is a “Draghi effect” in Italy, emphasize the media. Saturday’s press writes about the “vaccine run”.
Emergency pandemic commissioner General Francesco Figliuolo reported that after the announcement of the Council of Ministers’ decisions, the number of applications in most regions increased from 15 to 200 percent. Another noticed trend is a large increase in the 12-19 age group.
The daily Corriere della Sera reports on Saturday that an additional 55 people signed up for vaccinations in the capital city of Lazio, ten times more than the average for the previous days. In Lombardy, applications were received from 62 people, in Veneto from 20, and in Emilia-Romagna – about 25. In Puglia, the number of registrations tripled compared to the previous day.
As the newspaper points out, as a result of the introduction of the pass requirement, a large increase in entries is recorded mainly in places where the vaccination campaign has slowed down recently.
A new government ordinance, the journal states, introducing genuinely indirect vaccination obligations and restrictions for those who do not submit to them, has convinced many undecided.
Corriere della Sera points out that the government’s goal is to accelerate the vaccination campaign so that herd immunity in the country is achieved by the end of September, which means fully vaccinating more than 43 million Italians, or 80 percent of Italians. population. Currently, there are almost 30 million of them.
Do you want to test your COVID-19 immunity after vaccination? Have you been infected and want to check your antibody levels? See the COVID-19 immunity test package, which you will perform at Diagnostics network points.
Author: Sylwia Wysocka / PAP
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