Lockdown for those without vaccine, Costa: “It’s right to make distinctions”

Lockdown for those without the vaccine? If the infections from Covid in Italy continue to increase and vaccinations do not grow until reaching the goal of 90% of immunized, “the” possible “choices will not be many: o continue with restrictive measures, also imposing them on those who have been vaccinated , or introduce distinctions, or introduce vaccination obligations for some categories “in addition to health for which it is already in force. Thus, on ‘Radio too’ on Rai Radio 1, Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa answered the question on the viability of the ‘Austrian route’ in Italy too, which in the worst scenario provides for a lockdown only for the unvaccinated. “I think it is right to make a distinction between those who have been vaccinated and those who have not been vaccinated,” says Costa. Read also The distinction, he explains, is that “those who have been vaccinated did so in the awareness of protecting themselves and others, and of guaranteeing our country a gradual return to normality”, while others have not yet demonstrated this awareness. And “then we absolutely must continue with the vaccination campaign, but I believe it is not correct that those who have been vaccinated today continue to have to endure restrictive measures due to a minority that has not yet been vaccinated”. A concept that the undersecretary repeats several times, because “I think we must say this clearly”. That is, “I do not think it is correct – he insists – that those who have been vaccinated, demonstrating a great sense of responsibility and guaranteeing even the unvaccinated to be able to take advantage of many freedoms, a gradual return to normality, should be subjected to further restrictions because of who he has not yet been vaccinated. ” “What defends us from the virus is the vaccine, not the swab”, Costa points out. “The point is that we need to increase vaccinations and somehow convince those over 2.5 million who have not yet been vaccinated and that they would allow us to reach 90% of the immunized”, and to achieve this goal it should not be excluded, according to the undersecretary, the road to compulsory vaccination by categories. Which? The most at risk if exposed to Sars-CoV-2 are the “over 50s and 60s, and those who work closely with the public”, remembers Costa, however specifying that “there are reflections to be made and there may be many criteria” .