Italy is making the corona rules stricter when it comes to domestic travel.
There is sometimes strong opposition to the “Green Pass” in trains and on flights.
Rome - On September 1st, Italy tightened its corona rules again.
Then the “Green Pass” is also required on intercity and high-speed trains as well as on domestic flights and certain bus connections.
Only local public transport is excluded from the regulation.
Italy tightened corona rules from September 1st
Access to restaurants in Italy, for example, was already regulated with the Green Pass.
This means digital or printed proof of vaccination against Covid-19, proof of recovery or a negative test.
The counterpart to the 3G rule.
Angela Merkel also recently had it checked whether the 3G rule should be introduced on train journeys or on domestic flights.
However, Health Minister Jens Spahn had expressed concerns and told the
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: “I don't see it coming”.
In Italy, too, there is sometimes fierce resistance to the new Corona rules.
Corona rules tightened in Italy: violent protests against Green Pass
Vaccination and Green Pass opponents had called for train blockades in chat groups of the Telegram service in the past few days.
In the groups, contact details of companies, ministries and organizations were repeatedly shared with the call to flood them with messages.
However, unions have now strongly condemned these blockade threats and spoken out against them.
Most recently there were violent protests against the corona policy across the country in Italy.
According to media reports, journalists were also attacked.
The Italian Ministry of the Interior announced that it would examine and analyze the "intimidating acts" in the coming days.
Scientists are also targeted by threats.
Infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti told
Corriere della Serra
(Tuesday edition) that someone insulted him on the street near his home and threatened to kill him.
Holidaymakers also recently desperate at the Green Pass in Italy - they feel disadvantaged.
(rjs / dpa)
Current corona numbers in Italy according to information from
corona-in-zahlen.de
:
7 day incidence: 75.7
Vaccination rate: 70.36 percent (first vaccinations) // 60.45 percent (fully vaccinated)
Total infections: 4,534,499 to 60,367,471 inhabitants
