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Covid: Draghi, positive data but gradual openings. Speed ​​up on the European green pass

2021-05-10T14:19:25.451Z


The premier: 'Liberalizing patents is not enough, complex production. From Porto an important EU step on labor market coordination '. Von der Leyen: 'Approved a contract for 900 million guaranteed doses plus 900 million options with Pfizer-BioNTech for 2021-2023' (ANSA)


On reopenings, it is necessary to "calculate the risk well. The data are quite encouraging. If the trend continues in this direction, the control room will proceed to other reopenings. It is important to be gradual, also to understand which reopenings will have the most effect on infections. and which ones less ".

Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at the end of the European summit in Porto.

"As I believe most Italians - said Draghi - I want to reopen, I want people to go back out to work, to have fun, to be together,

but you have to do it safely, that is, by calculating the risk well

".

"With the resumption of tourism, we must also consider that airports are places where we must look very carefully, because they are places where infections can happen, so we need to reinforce controls at airports.

This does not mean closing: it means reopening but doing it with the head

".

"We have asked with great emphasis - said the premier - that the EU commission and parliament proceed as quickly as possible to the green certificate" for Covid, "in order to have a European model on which to compete for tourism measures. Otherwise there will be a lot of confusion ".

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The premier also spoke on the issue of vaccines

.

"The issue is much more complex" than the liberalization of vaccine patents alone because "doing it even temporarily does not guarantee the production of vaccines which is very complex. And then the production must be safe and this is not guaranteed by the liberalization of vaccines. situation is much more complicated ".

Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at the end of the European summit in Porto.

I do not believe that the patent "is a diplomatic tactical move by the United States to defeat the international vaccine policy of Russia and China because today's numbers show that this is a very funny thing for the moment. Russia has announced 750 million. of doses, so far it has delivered six. China has delivered 600 million and has delivered 40. They are not such adversaries as to worry the US ". "Biden's proposal has opened a door, then we'll see. There are those who protect the sanctity of the patent and who is more open".

Biden's position on patents "I believe it comes from an observation: there are millions of people who do not have access to vaccines either due to lack of distribution or lack of money, who are dying". "There are the big drug companies that have had massive government subsidies. You could simply say that something is expected in return from these drug companies."

"Before reaching" the liberalization of vaccine patents "it

would be necessary to do simpler things such as removing the export block that the United States

and the United Kingdom continue to maintain

today. what it gave to its citizens: 50% of the Union's production went to Canada or to countries that block exports ".

The declaration of Porto - he said in another passage - "as such does not seem to be of great importance at first sight, but it is not so: the moment is the end of a long journey in the field of protection of social rights. It seems obvious but it is a process that began in 2017, then launched by the president of the Juncker commission. It took four years to bring the whole European Council to share a first form of coordination of labor markets and especially of social rights ".

The statement "must be accompanied by side policies some of which were implemented in the pandemic, some of which are fiscal and budgetary policies. I but also other" European leaders "have referred to both the Sure program which is a start. unemployment subsidy at European level and a small step towards the creation of a common labor market. But also the need for certain expansionary fiscal policies not to be withdrawn too soon until the recovery is consolidated ".

"In Europe we must continue to accelerate vaccinations with transparency and safety by increasing production". This is the line that Prime Minister Mario Draghi took in his first EU summit in Oporto, dedicated to social issues. A position that - according to sources from Palazzo Chigi - has garnered broad consensus from the leaders and which has guided the debate during the preparatory dinner for the first informal summit in the presence of the premier. Draghi's warning - it is confirmed - is also addressed to those countries that still block exports while the EU exports 80% of its production.

Meanwhile, the president of the European commission Ursula Von der Leyen writes on twitter saying: "Happy to announce that the European Commission

has just approved a contract for 900 million guaranteed doses plus 900 million options with Pfizer-BioNTech for 2021-2023

. other contracts and other vaccine technologies ". 

In the meantime, in the support decree funds arrive for long Covid patients

. "Coronavirus - Minister Speranza tells ANSA - can leave, in patients who have had it in a serious form, consequences even after recovery. This is why I proposed that they come 50 million euros have been allocated for the National Health Service to take charge of all the patients most affected by the virus, even after discharge from the hospital, free of charge, with diagnostic tests and therapies. This provision will also allow for the initiation of monitoring to acquire further data to be made available to our researchers ". 

Source: ansa

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