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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea
30 May 2021 Roberto Speranza, the Minister of Health, host of the Rai 3 broadcast 'Che Tempo Che Fa' addressed the various issues related to the anti-Covid vaccination, asserting that the country seems to have started a new phase in the management of the third of the population was vaccinated and therefore became immune. "We are in a new, different phase, thanks to the vaccination campaign: we have reached over 34 million doses administered, there is a significant piece of the country, over a third, which received the first dose and we have protected the vast majority of the most fragile people. We will have to continue running in the coming weeks and in June we will have even more doses than we had in May ", said Health Minister Roberto Speranza from Fabio Fazio. "We must look forward to the next few weeks with confidence, but with our feet on the ground and continue that gradual path, an approach that must be maintained for the summer - he added - keeping the measures adopted up to now such as masks and distance. The measures have worked and the vaccination campaign enables us to look forward to the next few weeks with greater confidence ".
Probable third dose 'modified' against variants
from general practitioners who are an extraordinary network
"It will very likely be necessary to have a third dose of the vaccine, a booster that will probably be 'modified' to cover the variants. We will therefore have to move from an extraordinary phase to an ordinary phase and I think that this new ordinariness can be entrusted to our extraordinary network of general practitioners ". This is what Minister Speranza expressed himself during the broadcast of Rai 3. "Now we have to run and everyone is busy but I think that in the long term the gyms, congress centers or stations will have to return to play the roles for which they are responsible".
Vaccine 12-15 years from
free choice pediatricians, protagonists of this new phase for the relationship of trust with families
For vaccination for 12-15 year olds: "We must use free choice pediatricians as much as possible. Italian pediatricians are pediatricians of extraordinary quality who are deeply rooted in the territory, a very important relationship of trust with families. I would like them to play a leading role, always in coordination with the territories and regions "continued Roberto Speranza, answering a question from Fabio Fazio on where the dedicated Pfizer vaccine will be made to young people immediately after the Aifa green light expected shortly.
Green pass proposal also with non-EU countries
In the next meeting of the G7 health ministers, scheduled for next week in Oxford, the Minister of Health clarified: "I will propose that the Green pass be used also with countries that are not only European but also non-EU such as Japan, United States or Canada ". "I will make this proposal during the meeting of health ministers to be held shortly and if we find a way to share this tool we can help mobility. The Green pass - concluded the minister - will be digital with a code on the mobile phone even if it is now c 'is already the paper one that certifies vaccination ".
No rush to remove the masks, necessary for a while longer
"We must not be in a hurry, we will have to keep the masks indoors a little longer at least in the medium term. The masks are not a huge price to pay" then said the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza on Rai 3. "As soon as the scientists they will tell us we will be able to remove them outdoors and only afterwards indoors. In a transition phase we must not be in a hurry and we must not - concluded Speranza - frustrate the efforts made ".
Vaccinations on vacation doesn't seem like the biggest problem to me
"We are working with the Regions to find the appropriate solutions and to encourage maximum flexibility. Honestly, it does not seem to me the biggest problem we have" said the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, adding that "There is the possibility of managing them. as serenely as possible ". "What Commissioner Figliuolo and I expect - continued the minister - is that there is a Single National Central that can have control of all data. Today this happens and must continue to happen". Minister Speranza then declared: "I will get vaccinated by my general practitioner".