Milan: Italy makes life more convenient for people who are not vaccinated as holidays approaching, not including them from indoor restaurants, theaters, and museums to reduce the spread of Coronavirus and push skeptical vaccines to get their shots.
Starting Monday to January 15 Italian police can check whether visitors in the restaurant or bar have “super” graduated health green certification that they are well vaccinated or recovered from viruses.
The smartphone application that the status of passing public health checks will be updated and those who have only been tested negatively in the past few days for Covid-19 will no longer be allowed to enter concerts, films or performances.
The new number of Covid-19 infections in Italy has been increased in gradual for the past six weeks, even before worries emerged about the new Omicron variant.
It’s a worrying trend like Italy planning holidays and places to spend time with friends and family.
The journey and holidays of Christmas meetings were very limited last year due to a steep increase in transmission.
While both Germany and Austria move towards making mandatory vaccines, Italy is not tightening restrictions that are not vaccinated at some year-old friendly – while allowing those who are vaccinated away about life more or less as usual.
Italian vaccination rates are higher than many neighboring countries, at 85% of the qualified population aged 12 and older and 77% of the total population.
But people in their 30s, 40s and 50s have been proven most reluctant to get vaccinations, with nearly 3.5 million still has not received their first dose.
They are also the same age groups that are currently being hit by a virus, according to Silvio Brusaferro, the Head of Italy the National Institute of Health.
Also starting Monday, people must have graduated health to access local public transportation and stay at the hotel – which can also be obtained with a recent negative test.
In Milan, prefect saying through health will be checked before people are allowed to the subway or bus.
With the holiday shopping season heats up, many cities including Rome and Milan have ordered masks even outdoors.
Public health officials say vaccination, along with wise community behavior including wearing a mask in the crowd, is the key to reducing infection levels because winter weather encourages more activities in the room.
They are relatively high level credit Italian immunization as one of the reasons that the infection curve is not steep like the last winter, when restrictions are widely applied by the spread of Delta variants.
“It is clear that after two years of pandemic, we cannot easily be close to the physical class and close down economic activities,” said Gianni Rezza, Director of the Prevention Department of Health.
” Therefore, you can try to keep the spread of the virus down with sustainable steps, and with the right use of graduating health.
Then the big bet is on vaccination, “he said.