Extended green pass, vaccination obligation and third dose: what Speranza says

Extended green pass arriving in Italy. Health Minister Roberto Speranza confirms the new step, according to the line indicated by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who also proposed the obligation to vaccinate. “We must grow even more with vaccinations” against Covid-19 “and there is an ongoing discussion that will also take place in the next few days and that will probably also lead us to decisions that will allow us to further strengthen our campaign. to the extension of the Green pass, as already announced by the Prime Minister Draghi, and to further hypotheses that have been debated and that can allow us, if needed, to further strengthen our campaign “, says Speranza, in the final press conference of the G20 Health, in Rome. There will be “the third dose” of anti-Covid vaccine in Italy. We will certainly leave already in September for people who have immune frailty, I am thinking of some categories of cancer patients, transplant recipients and those who have had a fragile immune response compared to the administration of the first two doses “, he adds, recalling that” on this point both the EMA “, the European Medicines Agency,” and the ECDC “, the European Center for Prevention, have expressed themselves very clearly and disease control. Therefore “these first third doses will start already in September”, the minister reiterated. “Then – he continues – we will continue to analyze all the data, and in all likelihood the third dose campaign will continue and of course continuing to keep the issue of fragility as a compass: therefore on the one hand older people, over 80, on the other to for example, those who live in the RSA, where a very high price has been paid, and the same thing can be true for healthcare personnel: they are the first categories that received the vaccine and in all probability they will start from them. , the CTS, will express themselves “, the minister reports,” but I think that as early as September we will leave “.