50% of Italians are immunized. The use of the Green Pass is under consideration

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19 July 2021One in two Italians over 12 years old is immunized, that is, has completed the vaccination cycle against Covid: the week in which the government will have to decide on the use of the Green Pass and pass a new decree opens with good news for the fight against the pandemic. A difficult task, given the divisions on the matter in the majority that supports Mario Draghi.

"If we go back to closing as if the vaccine did not exist, many will be convinced that the vaccine is useless." Massimiliano Fedriga, president of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and of the Conference of Regions, is convinced of this. In an interview with "Corriere della Sera", regarding the Green Pass, he says: "

"." The definitive parameters for the assignment of colors to the Regions are coming. Our document - he adds - is almost ready. Vaccines are working very well against severe disease and the national average of hospitalizations is 2%. In Friuli-Venezia Giulia we have the lowest figure: nine patients in the Covid wards and zero in intensive care ".

More than Spain and Greece, where the curfew is restored, the exponent of the League looks at what is happening across the Channel: "Our comparison and our objective focus on the countries that are further ahead with the vaccination campaign, such as the Gran Brittany. To behave like when there was no vaccine means spreading the belief that the vaccine is not needed ". To those who ask him if he has a strategy to convert the No vax, Fedriga replies that "there is no magic formula, there is a government campaign and there are targeted campaigns by the Regions to reach those at risk.

In Italy, meanwhile,

, equal to 27,120,766 people. A total of 61,543,227 doses of vaccine administered, 92.9% of the total of those delivered so far equal to 66,259,046 (in detail 45,182,557 Pfizer / BioNTech, 6,953,754 Moderna, 11,858,101 Vaxzevria-Astrazeneca and 2,264,634 Janssen). This is what we read in the report of the extraordinary commissioner for the emergency.

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. From the French model, appreciated and contested, the Italian way is sought. "

. From a technological point of view, it is not impossible to apply this necessary measure". So to the Messenger

. "We cannot force people to vaccinate, but those who do not want to do so will have fewer opportunities or, at least, will have to perform an antigenic swab every time they want to go to crowded places or use public transport," he added. "How to convince the over 60s? The only way is that of a greater involvement of general practitioners", says Ricciardi.