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July 27, 2021After approving the green pass for a series of non-essential activities, the government for next week is preparing to launch new measures to secure school, work and transport. Among these it is not excluded that one thinks of the obligation of vaccination for teachers and school staff as well as for health personnel.
The Minister of Health Roberto Speranza yesterday on TV, a guest at Controcorrente on Rete4, seemed to be a possibility: "In the next few hours we will evaluate which will be the most effective tool to get everyone back to school in the presence, safely and without a dad".
"It should not be forgotten - added the minister - that the response of the Italians was good. We consume all the vaccines available and do over 500 thousand vaccinations a day. The response of the people - he concluded - has lived up to expectations".
As for the hypothesis of intervening in a different way in the regions "we have not evaluated it - explained Speranza - even if there are regions where the number of vaccinated people among school staff is very high, others where it is very low. a measure that differentiates between regions has already been decided, usually the measures we make are national. But the message must not get across that teachers and school staff have not been vaccinated, the figure is very high, 85% have had at least the first dose. But we want this percentage to increase, so in the next few hours we will evaluate which is the best tool ". "We have decided to invest in voluntariness, in persuasion, then we take a margin of reasoning,we will evaluate the data and understand piece by piece whether to introduce any obligations. For now, the obligation has been introduced only for health workers ", explained Speranza again, discussing the issue of vaccines for children, always in view of the reopening of the school.
Yesterday, the education minister Bianchi met with Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the technicians of the various ministries began to think about the interventions based on the priorities indicated by the premier who should hold a press conference precisely to illustrate the new measures on 5 or 6 August. In the first place there is the school and in the next few hours two meetings are scheduled: one between the unions and the technicians of the commissioner structure and the other between organizations and the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi. The primary objective is to significantly reduce the number of professors and non-teaching staff who are not yet vaccinated, to date 222 thousand people. In the event that this hard core has not thinned by August 20, the date by which the Regions must provide the Commissioner foremergency Francesco Figliuolo the real photograph of the situation, it is very likely that the vaccination obligation will be introduced. With the exception of Matteo Salvini, in the majority there is a substantial go-ahead, the principals have already made it clear that they too agree and the unions would not be against it, provided that they first have "precise data on the current vaccination coverage of prof ".
But the problems are not lacking, as evidenced by the umpteenth request of the Association of principals to Bianchi: "First the technical measures and political choices must be made and then we will discuss the Security Protocol" in view of the restart in September. In a letter addressed to the minister, school administrators ask for "clear indications on the vaccination obligation of school staff and on distancing". And in view of the meeting in the next few hours at the ministry, there are still many issues on the table: from the quarantine to the use of masks, to the need for presidia in institutions for the screening of the school population, new hires of thousands of Covid teachers 'to reduce classes and staggered hours of lessons, which presuppose the strengthening of Tpl