Covid, “mask in Campania at least until July”

“I hear, even from government officials, that from June we can take off the mask. In Campania we will wear the mask until July, we will see for the summer, but we must keep the utmost prudence”. This was stated by the president of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca during a live Facebook, underlining that “We can begin to say that Italy is beginning to breathe, to glimpse the possibility of a normal life”. “Today – recalled De Luca – we are one fifth of immunized people. There are many of our fellow citizens who have had Covid and are immunized, but it is clear that we have not yet completed the work. There is a problem of variants to which be careful and we will have to pay attention, for example, to English citizens arriving at our airports, we will have to increase vigilance in Capodichino to avoid importing the Indian variant. We have to do the recalls, the second doses, we must know that probably from October-November we will have to do the third dose for those who had the first two doses in January and then we have to take into account the vaccination of the school population between August and September. So there is an immense job to do. The current situation gives us confidence but we must know that the line of caution is obligatory “, De Luca affirmed.” We begin to breathe – added De Luca – thanks to a vaccination campaign that has gone on with ups and downs, but with results that become more important every day. Thanks to the vaccines, also thanks to the Government at least from the point of view of the prudence with which it followed the Covid affair. If we had anticipated the openings by two months today, we would be with an Italy in a worrying condition “. VACCINES” Today that vaccination for the elderly population has been completed and we begin to talk about the vaccination of the 16-40 year old group, we asked the commissioner to give more vaccines to Campania today, for the very simple reason that we are the youngest population. As we have previously given more vaccines to others, today it is simply correct to give more vaccines to Campania, which has a greater population of the younger group, until reaching a situation of equilibrium in September “, said the president of the Campania Region.” Nella age group 16-40 years – explained De Luca – Campania has 30% of its population, Lombardy has 26.5%, Veneto 25.8%, Lazio 26.7%, Liguria the 23%. Liguria, which before we correctly gave more vaccines because it is older, having today more than 7% less than the population of the 16-40 age group, should have fewer vaccines in proportion than Campania. This is the request that we have already presented to the Conference of Regions and that we will formalize at the Commissariat. We still have to make up 150 thousand doses that are missing “.