Super green pass, outdoor masks and third dose: what Christmas will be like

Third dose of anti Covid vaccine, even for over 18s, super Green pass and tightening of controls, and then outdoor masks, with the mayors pressing for the obligation. Italy accelerates on vaccinations and on the measures to be put in place to avoid a peak of infections near Christmas 2021, while the spotlights are focused on the Omicron variant, on the symptoms and its contagiousness. At the moment, all confirmed cases in the European Union “were asymptomatic or mild. So far, no serious cases have been reported and there has been no death,” the ECDC, the European Center for Disease Control, announced yesterday. Read also VACCINES – A new circular from the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency Francesco Figliuolo to the Regions indicates the minimum number of daily vaccine inoculations that ” it is considered desirable to achieve ” in the period from 1 to 12 December. ” Taking into account – writes Figliuolo – the current epidemiological framework and in the consideration that there is a wide availability of doses whose use must be understood in a balanced sense between the two types of mRNA vaccines currently in distribution ”. On this occasion ” the highest priority to be guaranteed in favor of the categories most vulnerable to covid 19 by age and / or high fragility and those for which there is an obligation to vaccinate is reaffirmed. ” The target of vaccine inoculations indicated by the special commissioner for the emergency is 4.6 million vaccines from 1 to 12 December, with an average of about 400 thousand inoculations per day. In detail, the total is divided nationally into 400 thousand daily administrations in the period from 1 to 3 December, 350 thousand on 4 December, 300 thousand on 5 December, 450 thousand on 6 and 7 December, 300 thousand on 8 December, 450 thousand on 9 and on 10 December, 350 thousand on 11 December and 300 thousand on 12 December. SUPER GREEN PASS AND TIGHT ON CONTROLS – “In this still very delicate phase for public health, the police forces and local police will continue to give their best and act responsibly but also with the necessary firmness, carrying out tighter checks on green certification with particular attention to the areas and times of greatest influx of people “, said the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, who met in videoconference with the prefects and quaestors of the regional capitals to give indications on the programming of services aimed at checks on the possession of the Green pass after the entry into force of decree law n.172 / 2021, which provides for new and more stringent measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. “I asked the prefects to involve all interested parties , recommending them to intensify the dialogue with the representatives of the trade associations of the exhibitors also in order to develop a capillary work to raise awareness among its members “, added Lamorgese. According to the new legislation, the prefects were asked to develop dedicated devices for the controls on the users of local public transport in a way shared with the service companies in the ambit of the provincial committees for public order and safety. In view of the new obligations on the Green pass, which will start on 6 December, Minister Lamorgese has anticipated the calling of a new meeting with the prefects of the regional capitals for a further evaluation of the plans developed, with particular regard to local public transport . OUTDOOR MASKS – Meanwhile, the mayors are pressing for the obligation of outdoor masks. Yesterday the measure was taken in Friuli Venezia Giulia, passed in the yellow zone, while the list of municipalities that have the mandatory nature of the mask is lengthened. “A few days ago I asked the control room on behalf of the mayors to evaluate the opportunity to make the use of an outdoor mask mandatory throughout the country from December 6 to January 15 for shopping and for the desire to stay rightly together “said the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro. In Verona the obligation could start this Saturday throughout the municipal territory, announced yesterday the mayor of Verona, Federico Sboarina, who today will submit the provision to the Provincial Committee for the ‘Public order and security. In Taormina an ordinance of the mayor, Mario Bolognari, has ordered mandatory masks, from 4 December to 9 January, also outdoors in the historic center, in view of the Christmas holidays and the arrival of tourists and after the numbers on Covid infections . “Data from the red zone – explained the mayor – and for this reason I thought of more restrictive measures, also referring to the recent ordinance of the president of the Sicilian Region, Nello Musumeci”.