Expected for today the dpcm with the list of activities where the green pass will not be required, which would exclude tobacconists among other things.
Meanwhile, Sicily and Calabria are challenging the government and allowing unvaccinated people to cross the Strait of Messina.
No super pass to cross the Strait of Messina, a negative buffer will suffice: Sicily and Calabria challenge the government with an ordinance that violates the decree in force since Christmas Eve under which it can get on means of transport, including "ships and ferries used for interregional transport service ", only those who are vaccinated or cured of Covid. A forcing that comes with the Regions increasingly pressing to change the anti Covid rules, starting from the parameters of counting hospital admissions to avoid the passage in the area with more restrictions: Friuli Venezia Giulia, Piedmont and Sicily itself already have parameters from the orange zone while Abruzzo, Calabria, Lazio, Liguria, Marche, Tuscany and the province of Trento are likely to exceed them by Friday. Instead, it seems that thealarm for the Aosta Valley, which in any case asked for an exemption from the government to avoid ending up in the red zone if intensive care should go up again. The ordinance signed by the Sicilian governor Nello Musumeci and by that of Calabria Roberto Occhiuto establish that to pass from Sicily to Calabria it will be enough to have the basic green pass and not the reinforced one, even if you will have to stay in your car or outdoors and wear the Ffp2. "Let's put an end to an absurd injustice to the detriment of Sicilians - says Musumeci - a discriminatory rule of the government. With the ordinance, territorial continuity is guaranteed and safeguarded". In the next few hours it will be understood whether the government will challenge the two measures, as it has already done with that of Campania which postponed the reopening of schools.A confrontation between all the governors will take place in the next few hours: the Conference of Regions will meet to approve the protocol on sport that was given the green light by the CTS but it is clear that on the table there will be the requests made in these days: the cancellation of the color system, a revision of the system by which hospital admissions are counted, distinguishing between inpatients for covid and patients who enter for other reasons and test positive for the virus (some regions have already begun to do so independently, even if it does not affect on the data reported in the bulletin), the modification of the quarantine rules. On this front the latest proposal is that of the president of Liguria Giovanni Toti: after 3 days without symptoms, isolation can be ended.Among the requests of the Regions there would also be that of having positive health workers remain in service, a ploy to remedy the lack of personnel. Request returned to sender by doctors. "It is an irresponsible proposal" says Filippo Anelli of the Fnomceo and adds: "if it were implemented, it would be worthwhile to abolish the obligation to vaccinate". Even the largest doctors' union, Anaao Assomed defines her as "wretched": "It would cause damage to health, transforming hospital wards into contagion clusters, we just can't allow it". The proposals will then have to be discussed with the government, with the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza who has already opened the discussion on the changes even if he has invited everyone to remain "down to earth".In concrete terms, it means that there are margins for intervention both on the rules for quarantine and on the method of counting cases in hospitals, but the system of bands will not be canceled. And in any case, everything will not happen before the end of the month.
In the next few hours, however, the Dpcm will arrive which identifies those activities "necessary to satisfy the essential and primary needs of the person" which can be accessed without the pass: shops that sell food, including markets and street vendors, pharmacies, parapharmacies, medical and veterinary offices, analysis laboratories, optical shops and to buy pellets or wood for heating. The entire fuel sector, newsstands and essential goods shops in shopping centers will also be excluded from the pass. On the other hand, the pass is required for bookstores and tobacconists. A choice criticized by the Italian Tobacconist Federation. "Every day 13 million people enter the tobacconist's - underlines the president Giovanni Risso - Everyone remembers that we remained open even during the lockdown, because essential services for citizens, even for payments. Imposing the green pass now would be a further complication for the lives of citizens and for the exhibitors themselves ".