Covid Italia, Rezza: “Continue to use masks indoors”

The mask “in cases of close contact in public places, it may be appropriate to continue to wear it, regardless of the obligations incumbent on the political decision maker”. This was stated by the director general of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, Gianni Rezza, at the press conference on the continuation of the vaccination campaign. “The mask indoors – underlined Rezza – can represent a moral duty for those who have symptoms. And at the same time a healthy right for those who want to protect themselves. I will continue to wear the mask indoors. I think we should get used to thinking and act with caution beyond the obligations “, he urged. As for the Green pass”, any decisions on future use – Rezza recalled – cannot be taken now and are mainly up to the political authorities. Now it is not us who can be technicians decide “.” The Green pass has performed its function very well in recent months in two ways. Above all with the circulation of the Delta variant – he explained – it was an excellent tool to reduce the risk of contagion, especially in closed places “. And “with respect to the Omicron variant”, the expert recalled that, “even if the vaccine’s protection against infection is not 100% (maybe 50%), the risk of infection with vaccination tends to diminish”. Secondly, the green certificate “was instrumentally, let’s say it in quotation marks, in a good way, used to increase vaccination coverage” against Covid-19 and “I believe – Rezza remarked – that this task has performed well. “.