Vaccines, Figliuolo ordinance: priority to over 80 and frail people
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April 12, 2021: An arm wrestling between the government and the regions on the 'Covid free' islands in view of the summer. The idea is to imitate the seventy Greek islands that will be declared virus-proof by the end of April thanks to vaccinations and a vaccination passport.
In Italy the plan would concern the residents and workers of the smaller islands in Campania such as Ischia, Capri, Procida, in Sicily, such as the Aeolian and Egadi and Pelagie islands, and others from Ponza alle Tremiti to Elba and the island of Giglio. .
If on the one hand the Executive had said it was willing to work in this direction, not all regions however agree.
"I hope that the Minister of Tourism Garavaglia will immediately reject the proposal of 'covid free islands'. There can be no privileged tourist resorts at the expense of others", writes in a post the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region,
Stefano Bonaccini
.
He adds: "rather, the government should work to ensure that as many doses as possible arrive to vaccinate in the shortest possible time and work for the vaccination passport, with the same rules for all at European level".
A position, that of Bonaccini, who tries to stop the proposal arrived last week by the same Minister of Tourism,
Massimo Garavaglia
, who in this sense had said he was a possibility.
"Greece - said the owner of Tourism - has many small islands and that's why it is moving in that direction, we could do it. The point is to create mechanisms that make it easy to move around".
To create corridors of Covid free islands "we talked with ministers Giovannini and Speranza - added Garavaglia - and there is an open table to get to have protocols and simple and safe circulation methods in our country, the management seems to me quite clear ".
Lampedusa and Linosa, the first covid-free islands?
"Mass vaccination in Lampedusa and Linosa for the summer": is the project launched in the days of the mayor of Lampedusa,
Salvatore Martello
.
The mayor is the promoter of an initiative by which Lampedusa and Linosa will become the first Covid-free islands: the two Sicilian islands are preparing to mass vaccinate the entire population.
"Between Lampedusa and Linosa we are 6500 inhabitants: Linosa has always been Covid-free because it has never had any case of positivity in all this period, while in Lampedusa someone has been infected".
De Luca "Campania will go on" Campania is
on the same wavelength.
"Campania will go ahead and will not ask anyone for authorization, neither in Rome, nor in Brussels, nor from the United Nations".
Thus the president of the Campania Region
Vincenzo De Luca
, replied to his counterpart from the Emilia Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, about the intention to vaccinate the populations of Ischia, Capri and Procida to revive tourism, regardless of the national vaccination plan.
"We are working to pursue this objective because we consider the relaunch of the tourism sector in Campania to be a priority and this operation is either done today, or we lose another year of tourism", he reiterates.
The Tuscan archipelago
Even the islands of Tuscany in recent days had made it known that they wanted to press the accelerator of vaccinations to become Covid free by May, asking for a carpet administration plan.
The goal passes through the vaccination of the entire resident population and workers on the islands to be ready for the start of the summer season.
A mission within reach, given the small number of citizens of the Archipelago, about 35,000 people, of which 32,000 only
on the Island of Elba
, the largest reality of the Tuscan archipelago, and several hundred in the remaining six, including Giglio e Capraia
At the level of infections, the situation in the archipelago remains under control thanks to the protection of the sea and the obligation of a swab to land but for the summer the controls could become an obstacle to the tourist season.
Sicily and Sardinia
The Covid free project does not however only concern the smaller islands.
The governors of Sardinia and Sicily,
Christian Solinas and Nello Musumeci
, asked the government last week in a joint declaration to focus on the total immunization of the population of the two islands, both with a strong tourist vocation, in order to guarantee "important numbers for the recovery of the national economy ".
"Our condition of insularity, which limits access points to ports and airports - underlined the presidents - makes health checks easier. If we proceed quickly with the vaccination of the entire population, we will be able to host tourists in complete safety by opening real and own preferential corridors to countries and regions that have already completed immunization or using the 'Covid-tested' model of flights and ships, which guarantees enormous international attractiveness ".
Solinas and Musumeci also proposed to cover with regional resources the cost for the preferential purchase of the doses necessary for the total immunization of the respective populations or, at least, the authorization by the Government to book the so-called 'additional' vaccines such as Sputnik awaiting approval by Ema or Aifa.
The cost, according to estimates, would be around 5-6 million euros.
Fedriga: "Equity or there will be social tensions"
The newly elected president of the Conference of the Regions,
Massimiliano Fedriga,
spoke on the subject and called for equity: "At this moment we must demonstrate to the country that there is equity. social, but to give the same rules everywhere. The less there are inequalities, even if not everyone will be satisfied, the less there are tensions ".
"Regardless of the type of territory in which a person lives - he stressed -, they must have the same rights and on this I think it is a direction in which the government is going and it is something that I share".
Costa: "
We need
common action"
"We work every day to get to a Covid-free country, I believe that escapes are useless, especially if we are talking about tourism, someone should explain to me why Sicily is and why Venice is not, why Sardinia yes, or why our cities of art no ", said the Undersecretary of Health,
Andrea Costa
, on a visit to the vaccination hub of the Bologna Fair, answering questions from reporters who asked him for an opinion on the proposed create Covid free islands.
"I believe there is a need for joint action together - added Costa - to share a path where everyone does their part, I don't think leaps forward are useful at this time. I believe that even citizens would find it hard to understand".
Zaia: "Our island is called Veneto"
Many the opposing voices from the Regions.
The proposal of covid free islands that the president of the Veneto Region
Luca Zaia
does not like
, who said that for him the Covid free island is all of Veneto.
"There is no way that I go to immunize one place at the expense of the others ... If someone wants to do it around Italy, they do it with their vaccines. myself".
Beyond this, then, "there is an ethical issue", because to date the directives provide that priority is given to the elderly and frail subjects, while "making Covid free locations means that you go to vaccinate 20 and 30 year olds" concluded Zaia.
Toti: "In Liguria we respect the absolute priorities of the country"
"The whole of Italy must restart, and there can be no preferential lanes in the various territories even for those with a greater tourist vocation. The absolute priorities of the country are age and ultra-vulnerability of citizens, this was the line followed in Liguria and a few days ago both the Prime Minister and Commissioner Figliuolo put it in black and white ".
Thus the president of the Liguria Region,
Giovanni Toti
, who adds: "According to this principle, there can be no differences between a 70-year-old citizen of a small or large tourist municipality who will be vaccinated when his peers are vaccinated throughout the territory , so for the 60s, 50s and we will continue following the age groups. We will not vaccinate on the territory, but through the large hubs that will allow us to make tens of thousands of vaccines a day, only on the basis of the risk category of citizens which is determined by age and any pathologies, certainly not by the territory in which he lives ".
Cirio: "Everyone has equal dignity"
"What is the difference between the Unesco islands and hills of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato, Lake Maggiore, the Alpine peaks or the Reggia di Venaria?".
The president of the Piedmont Region,
Alberto Cirio
, comments on the proposal launched by the Minister of Tourism, Massimo Garavaglia of 'covid free islands'.
"We are fortunate to live in a country with jewels that shine in every corner of the territory - explains Cirio - and all have equal dignity".
What does the Figliuolo plan foresee?
The last ordinance of Francesco Paolo Figliuolo in coordination with the Ministry of Health foresees as priority categories to be vaccinated those of the
over 80 and the frail,
has national significance and derives from the political directives of the Prime
Minister
, Mario Draghi .
The text of the ordinance states that "vaccination respects the following order of priority: people over the age of 80; people with high frailty and, where foreseen", also "cohabiting family members, caregivers, parents or guardians or foster carers; people aged between 70 and 79 years and, subsequently, those aged between 60 and 69, using mainly Vaxzevria vaccines (previously called Covid-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca) as recently indicated by AIFA ".
And again, the ordinance number 6 continues: "In parallel to the aforementioned categories, the vaccination of all health and social health personnel is completed, at the forefront in the diagnosis, treatment and care of Covid-19 and all those who work in the presence at public and private health and social health facilities. The other categories considered priority by the National Plan are then vaccinated, in parallel with the personal data bands in the order indicated ".