Covid today Italy, Mattarella: “With vaccine we contain violent fourth wave”

The Covid vaccine is containing this violent fourth wave. This is what the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella said, speaking at the inauguration of the Academic Year of the ‘La Sapienza’ University. “Vaccinations were not only the tool that defended us, they literally saved us and is allowing us, in this violent fourth wave of the Covid contagion, which is putting even large traditionally well-organized countries in great difficulty, to contain it. offensive and serious dangers “. “But vaccinations were also a sort of referendum on science”, continued the Head of State, recalling that yesterday evening 87 percent of citizens over the age of twelve underwent the vaccination: “If we add those who cannot do it for health reasons or those recently recovered from Covid we are at ninety percent, more or less. So this referendum on science, on its value, sees 9-1 to the advantage of science and is one of the characteristics that signal the a sense of responsibility for which we must be grateful to our fellow citizens and which in this period has put Italy at the forefront of the positive consideration of the international community “.” If I may, I would like to add a further meaning of a personal nature that concerns me, because a few weeks after the conclusion of my role, of my functions as President of the Republic, I am allowed to return to Sapienza where I studied “. The Head of State then recalled that “the articulation of functions between different bodies, the temporariness of the offices and a good dose of self-irony, an adequate capacity for self-irony, allows us to maintain that detachment that always makes authentic and the relationship with responsibilities has not been altered “.