Green pass, masks and pads, new decisions tomorrow. The arrival of Omicron has opened a new phase of the pandemic, the government will decide tomorrow based on the data. So Mario Draghi in view of the new close anticovid. The use of the mask outdoors will be evaluated, and in some cases the vaccinated buffer hypothesis is not excluded. "Vaccines - said the premier during the press conference at the end of the year - remain the best defense tool against the virus" and the third dose is the priority. Tomorrow also the new duration of the Green pass, because the second dose has been found to decline more rapidly than originally thought. For now there is no talk of a lockdown for the unvaccinated, but every answer is on the table, the premier clarifies. And for the school the Christmas holidays will not be extended.
"The vaccination obligation always remains in the background, it has never been excluded", said Draghi, recalling that it has already been extended to some categories and that "we will evaluate whether to extend it to others, I don't know if it will be discussed tomorrow in the control room," but especially if the data continues to deteriorate, it will be under discussion in a very short time ".
"If necessary, we will strengthen screening in schools, we need testing and vaccination of everyone and today also of children. Everything is necessary to defend what little normality we had achieved".
So the premier in the press conference at the end of the year.
Drahi pointed out that "15.6 million third doses were administered and 3/4 of the population reached".
"So I invite everyone to continue to vaccinate and take the third dose, this is the priority."
Tomorrow at the control room he will discuss "for example of masks also outdoors, today they are foreseen in case of large gatherings", of the use "of FFp2 masks, in particular in certain closed environments".
And "the application of the buffer is not excluded" because "there is a period in the green pass in which the protection of the first two doses decreases and the third has not yet been done. In that period it is useful to buffer", said the Prime Minister explaining that these are "all systems to try to slow down the spread of the virus".
