Vaccines, no from the ministry to the passport for the immune

The vaccine passport is proposed by the regions that the Ministry of Health does not like. It would be a document to be given to the vaccinated, giving them a sort of pass to move mainly, but also to do some activities that could reopen thanks to these people, from gyms to cinemas.

Why the no from the Ministry of Health? It is a precautionary line that says that the danger has not passed even for those who have been immunized with the vaccine. First of all no vaccine has been certified to be 100% effective, therefore nobody can be said to be totally protected.

Herd immunity is far to come for these numbers and also because vaccinations are slow. And then there are the variants for which we do not know if there is efficacy in the vaccines in circulation.

These are the reasons why everyone has to keep wearing the mask, respect the safety distance and also do the quarantine after contact with a positive. It is unclear whether the vaccinated can carry the infection even if they do not develop the disease and therefore people cannot be circulated who can infect others. For themselves there is the problem of variants and the possibility of getting sick again.

But even the WHO says no for one lack of principle of fairness: too few vaccinated people in the world would have preferential treatment.

The regions are still ready with the passport, which could be a separate document, but which derives from the vaccination booklet, the sheet that collects all the vaccinations of each person. IS the vaccination register. Lazio councilor Alessio D’Amato explained to Repubblica that it is already possible to download the data online. «The document is in several languages, it can be used for example abroad. We already work with the Rome airports, now we are aiming for a Covid free flight to Moscow ».

They say they are ready too Veneto and Piedmont. The Tuscan councilor Simone Bezzini is in favor, but with a national law and with the certainty of coverage even in time because the vaccine may not be for life.

Those who ask for the vaccination passport are above all are above all the categories blocked by Covid. The vice-president of Federlaberghi, Giuseppe Roscioli, considers “a recognition of this type, at the national level, a way to be able to move freely between regions … The next step would be to expand the document at a European level and then again at an intercontinental level”. The same reasoning applies to all places of culture, for cinemas and theaters, for swimming pools and gyms.

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