Outdoor masks, Sileri: “Away from early July, I wouldn’t go any further”

The stop to the obligation of outdoor masks “can be done when we have 50% of the population vaccinated, so I imagine early July”. Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri said this to Radio microphones on Rai Radio 1. “Let the Scientific Technical Committee decide – said Sileri – but I personally would not go beyond early July. And it is not a date. but it is “a calculation based on” how much population we have reached with the vaccination. Already a month and a half ago – the undersecretary recalled – I said that reached 50% of the population with the first dose of vaccine, at least three weeks after that threshold we could remove the mask outdoors as long as there are no gatherings “. As for the flop of the German vaccine CureVac, “it complicates the plans of all those who counted on those millions of doses, but we had made the program with the vaccines we had available, because the CureVac was not yet approved”. “For the moment, with the doses we have – underlined the undersecretary – we should continue with the vaccination and maintain the timing of a community protection for the end of the summer, maximum the first days of autumn”.