Covid, the CDM approves the decree for the holidays. Here are the new measures

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December 23, 2021 The Council of Ministers unanimously approved the decree law with the new rules to stem the contagion from Covid on holidays. It is learned from government sources while the meeting is still in progress. 

This morning a first control room was held at Palazzo Chigi chaired by Mario Draghi in view of the Cdm. The meeting lasted just under two hours and was attended by the majority delegation heads, the head of the CTS Franco Locatelli and the ISS president Franco Brusaferro. In the afternoon, a new control room, first on the recovery Plan chaired by Prime Minister Mario Draghi and extended to all the ministers most directly involved, then on the new anti-Covid restrictions.

The idea of ​​introducing the vaccine obligation for all employees of the PA does not pass. It is learned from various government sources, while the meeting of the Council of Ministers is still underway. Concerns would have been expressed by various ministers, starting with those of the M5, then the decision would have been unanimous.

 is what was learned from government sources at the end of this morning's control room at Palazzo Chigi. The duration of the Green pass will therefore pass from the current nine to six months. 

By order of the Minister of Health, the minimum period for administering the third dose will be reduced from 5 to 4 months from the completion of the primary vaccination cycle. However, a technical investigation is expected on this point, which would also involve AIFA. 

According to various government sources, the new measures to combat Covid provide for the obligation to wear an outdoor mask throughout Italy and Ffp2 in closed environments such as cinemas, theaters and for sporting events, as well as on means of transport. This is the orientation that emerged from the control room to decide the new tightening in the light of the data on the Omicron variant, also because many regions have already moved on their own.

According to what would have been communicated in the control room, in light of the first data of the flash surveys carried out by the ISS, the

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According to the draft of the Festivity dl, from 30 December and until the end of the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19, "access to dance halls, discos and similar places, where events or parties, however named, are held, open to the public, it is only allowed to subjects with a green Covid-19 certification, issued following the administration of the booster dose following the primary vaccination cycle ". Access is also allowed to those who have had two doses of vaccine or are cured of Covid and present the negative result of the rapid or molecular antigen test. 

From December 30, access to museums and places of culture, swimming pools, gyms and team sports, wellness centers and spas, cultural, social and recreational centers, game rooms, bingo halls and casinos will be allowed only to those with super green it passed, therefore, only to the vaccinated and the recovered. This is what is provided for in article 7 of the draft of the decree which introduces measures for holidays. Children under the age of 12 and those exempted from the vaccination campaign are excluded from the obligation.

Even to attend a football match or a basketball or volleyball match it will be mandatory to wear the Ffp2 mask, provides for the draft of the decree with the measures for the holidays under discussion at the Cdm.

Until the end of the state of emergency, the text states, for "sporting events and competitions that take place indoors and outdoors, it is compulsory to wear respiratory protection devices of the Ffp2 type". In stadiums and arenas, as well as in cinemas and theaters, concert halls, venues with live music outdoors and indoors, the consumption of food and drinks is prohibited. 

To contain Covid, "the maritime, air and border health offices" carry out, even on a sample basis, at the airports, sea and land, antigenic or molecular tests of travelers entering Italy. The draft of the decree for the holidays provides for it. In the event of a positive outcome to the traveler "the measure of fiduciary isolation is applied for a period of ten days, where necessary at the Covid Hotels, subject to communication to the Prevention Department of the competent local health authority in order to guarantee health surveillance. for as long as necessary ". 

The checks will be carried out by the Offices of Maritime, Air and Border Health and Health Assistance to Seafarers (Usmaf-Sasn) of the Ministry of Health using the resources available under current legislation.

To "ensure the identification and tracing of positive cases in schools", the Ministry of Defense "ensures support for regions and autonomous provinces in carrying out test administration activities" for Covid research and in "analysis and reporting through the military laboratories "present in the area. This is what is foreseen by the draft of the decree under discussion in the Council of Ministers in which an expenditure of 9 million is foreseen "to increase the diagnostic capabilities of military laboratories and guarantee the correct execution of activities" for 2022. 

The obligation to vaccinate for PA employees, a pool of about 950 thousand workers, has been slipped into the Council of Ministers considering that the obligation has already started for those who work in health, schools and law enforcement agencies, therefore the bulk of the sector . The obligation has never entered the draft of the dl, but in fact it was the 'highlight' of the control room this morning, updated in the afternoon, between Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the majority forces. According to Adnkronos, the Prime Minister's idea was to start from the obligation in the PA, and then extend it to the private sector, therefore to the whole world of work. But in this there were different positions at the discussion table, which also discussed it during the Cdm.

The decision, according to what Adnkronos learns from sources present at the Council of Ministers, is currently postponed, because we are considering the extension to the entire world of work, without distinction, a hypothesis strongly supported by Minister Renato Brunetta in line with what has already happened for the green pass.  

Second quento provides for the draft anti Covid decree for the holidays, for the access of visitors to residential, social welfare, social health and hospice facilities, it will be necessary to have the third vaccine dose given or two doses of vaccine and a rapid or molecular antigen swab.

The measures that also allow pharmacies to

inject anti-Covid vaccines are extended to the end of 2022.

It is the provisions of art.

9 of the holiday decree being examined by the Cdm.

To this end, "charges quantified in total at 4,800,000.00 euros" are envisaged.