Green pass, Sileri: “Let’s do it immediately like Macron”

On the Green Pass, French President Macron applied what Israel has already done. On trains, in restaurants, only those with them go to events. In one night, a million people rushed to book an appointment for vaccines. Do you share this model? “Yes, it is definitely a right choice. We should do it in Italy too, don’t ask me why we haven’t left yet, I have told Speranza so many times. Let’s think of discos: if we allowed clubs to open for customers with the Green pass, will see that we would have the race for those between 18 and 40 to get vaccinated “. Pierpaolo Sileri, Undersecretary of Health, underlines this in an interview with ‘Il Messaggero’. Read also “The Green pass, mind you, we must not be used for bars and restaurants, unless our infections do not reach similar numbers to the British ones – he adds – At that point no to closures, but Green pass, for everything, restaurants included, so you are not forced to close. In summary: the Green pass two months ago was a means to reopen earlier, when Italy was yellow or orange. Today it is a means of not going back when infections are higher “. Sileri is among the supporters of a real application of the green pass, because to date in Italy it has been downloaded by 26 million Italians. “I said it a month and a half ago: the double dose works with the Delta variant, so why don’t we seriously apply the green pass – – remember – making it a useful tool to participate in events, to reopen discos, theaters, to avoid the quarantine. Here it makes no sense in restaurants, if anything it can be a weapon to keep them open if there is a strong increase in cases “. Undersecretary, Italy treats vaccinated people as unvaccinated. It is not surprising that the audience of those who have not yet booked is vast. “This does not make sense – warns Sileri – I have been repeating it for months, I have collected the testimony of a medical colleague, who has long since completed the vaccination process, yet since he had the misfortune of being close to a positive, he had to Isolate oneself in quarantine. But what’s the point? Here, this too would be an incentive to get vaccinated: no quarantine for those who are vaccinated “. Many vaccinated people ask: but it is possible that we must close ourselves at home to protect a minority of over 60 who persist not to get vaccinated? “I understand this argument. I think that the system of parameters must also be revised, in the space of one or two weeks – observes Sileri – I am not saying that it must necessarily be made softer, but we must take into account two new factors: vaccinations and diffusion of the Delta variant. First of all we must understand if the infections we are recording in these days will put the health system in difficulty. It now seems clear that by the end of the month we will have 10 thousand cases a day. The hospitalizations will also increase now that a substantial part of the population has been immunized? We have to understand that. But the parameters must be changed. We will have to increase the importance of the hospital filling rate. That is what really matters “Let’s go back to the original question: Israel had already done it, now it’s up to France. To restart the respective countries they have introduced the generalized use of the Green pass in restaurants, means of transport, events. In Ibiza, where the nightclub industry is the most important in the world, the managers told the authorities: we are ready to open but on one condition, if only the vaccinated enter. In Italy everything is silent. Why? “In May I proposed to spread the use of the Green pass. Why it hasn’t been done yet, I don’t know, ask Minister Speranza”, he concludes.