Grenn Pass, what (little) is known about the government project
All the latest news on the Green Card (or Green Pass) for travel between regions: facts and comments from experts
On April 26, Italy begins the journey towards the restart and reopening. The crux of the matter is travel. To move between regions, a ' green certification ' will be required, which will be issued to vaccinated people, people recovered from the infection or if a rapid molecular or antigen test has been carried out with a negative result for the virus in the previous 48 hours.
The three types and duration
The " green pass " will be in paper or digital format and will have a duration of six months for vaccinated and recovered from Covid and 48 hours for those who will undergo antigen or molecular tests with negative results. For the vaccinated, the certification will be completed by the facility where the vaccine was carried out. The document will flow into the electronic health record and will be released when the vaccination cycle is complete . For healed people, the certificate will be issued by the facility where the patient was admitted or, for non-hospitalized patients, by general practitioners and pediatricians of free choice. Those who undergo a rapid or molecular antigenic swab with negative results will have a green certification lasting 48 hours that will be issued by the same facility that carried out the swab.
The prison for those who falsify the Green pass
Falsifying certification is a crime. The decree being studied by the Government refers to the sanctions provided for by the articles of the criminal code on the various types of false public official or private individuals that produce counterfeit or altered documents. If the counterfeit Covid-19 green certification is used to carry out activities or travel prohibited under the decree, fines ranging from 400 to 3 thousand euros will also be added to the criminal measures.
Green pass with buffer: doubts about efficacy
The green pass has raised several concerns, both for its effectiveness in combating the spread of the virus and for what concerns the protection of personal data. “I do not recommend betting on the swab made 48 hours earlier . It is not very reliable, it gives no guarantees. In the next 24 hours, anything could have happened ”. This is said by Professor Massimo Ciccozzi , head of the Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology Unit of the Campus Bio-medico in Rome. Added to this is that even after vaccination there is a risk of contracting the infection and passing it on to others . “About 10% of vaccinated people can also infect after the double dose – adds prof. Cicozzi -. We must be very careful and carry out random checks , rapid antigen tests in airports, for example ". In any case, you will not be able to lower your guard, or the masks that you will need to continue wearing. Furthermore, the measures that the government is about to take cannot be finalized. " If infections increase, we will have to go back – concludes prof. Cicozzi -. I think the risk should be calculated on the basis of more robust parameters such as the incidence and the employment rate of intensive care ”.
Privacy concerns
The Government has not yet communicated the entry into force of the Green Card. The lawyer Guido Scorza , cassation lawyer and member of the College of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data, raises some doubts about the protection of the privacy of people who will have to use it to move. Last March the Italian Data Protection Authority unsuccessfully requested a law to discuss and regulate the personal data protection aspects of the pass. At the same time, the Guarantor Authority has not yet received the draft of the decree-law introducing the Green pass. “From our point of view it is good that the decree-law respects our March indication in which we requested a national law on privacy – says the lawyer Sforza to Open -. From this document, although it is a draft, it can be deduced that the privacy issue will be dealt with in a subsequent DPCM. Basically, for now it is established that the pass serves and the application spaces are defined , but not the setting in terms of privacy ". The vaccination passport risks leaving without the Authority having expressed itself, without dissolving the knots that protect people and the confidentiality of citizens' health data. “From the draft it would seem so, because it suggests that the privacy issue will be regulated at a later time – continues Sforza -. It is difficult to discuss the proportionality of the data processed, security measures, or storage times with respect to a decree-law which, at the moment, lacks any exercise of discipline in relation to these aspects.
Mockery for doctors: the Green pass is almost expired
Health workers, frontmen in the fight against the pandemic, risk finding themselves with an expired certificate even before it comes into force. "On January 20, I made the second dose – tells Republic Giulio Maria Ricciuto, primary to the hospital emergency Grassi Ostia and Lazio president of the Italian Society of emergency medicine (SIMEU) – This means that the July 20, my green certificate expires and I remember that we health professionals have the obligation to vaccinate, so we will not be able to stay closer to patients until we receive the third dose ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/grenn-pass-che-cosa-si-sa-poco-del-progetto-del-governo/ on Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:03:26 +0000.