What will the Italian Green pass look like according to Draghi?
All the details on the Italian Green pass to move between regions
“The time has come to book your holidays in Italy, we can't wait to welcome you again”. Thus ended yesterday the press conference of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi who introduced the ministerial meeting of the G20 Tourism .
Draghi: "We are ready to host the world"
Tourism is a very important GDP item for our country. A gold mine that, according to the ENIT report of 2019, before the pandemic accounted for about 13% of the Gross Domestic Product . “We are ready to host the world again. Our mountains, our beaches, our cities and our countryside are reopening – said Draghi who recognizes how much the tourism sector has been affected by the pandemic -. Some sectors are destined to shrink but others to grow, I have no doubt that tourism in Italy will come back as strong and stronger than before ". "The Government – promises the Prime Minister – intends to offer help to the tourism industry which has suffered so much from this prolonged closure. And of course the tourism industry is a prominent figure in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. We come to the immediate future and we must offer clear simple rules to ensure that tourists come to us to travel safely ”.
Green pass, Italy anticipates Europe
Starting from the second half of June, the green certificate will be active in Europe, an essential document for moving within the European Union. “Thanks to the pass, tourists will be able to move from one country to another without quarantine – continues Mario Draghi – as long as they can prove that they have been cured of the covid, that they are vaccinated or that they are swab negative”. The surprise comes when the Premier informs journalists that Italy, this time, will be ahead of Europe. "Pending the European certificate, the Government has introduced a national green pass that will allow people to move freely between the regions and which will come into force from the second half of May ". The green certificate for Italian holidays will allow tourists to move without having to undergo quarantine. Provided, of course, that they have been vaccinated with a drug already approved by AIFA, cured of Covid or negative for the test.
Green certificate after a swab: the doubts of the experts
"The recent swab to get the 'pass' is a very dangerous nonsense". To say it is the virologist of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, Roberto Burioni, who entrusts his concerns to Twitter. “From a medical point of view – writes Burioni -, the only ones who could move with greater freedom are the vaccinated and the recovered. The rest is nonsense ”.
The recent swab to get the "pass" is a very dangerous nonsense. From a medical point of view, the only ones who could move with greater freedom are the vaccinated and the recovered. The rest is nonsense.
– Roberto Burioni (@RobertoBurioni) May 5, 2021
Italian green certificate equal for citizens and tourists
On May 15, as Repubblica writes, the ordinance of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza expires, which requires, on those arriving from a European country, a negative antigen or molecular test, a 5-day quarantine and a second swab at the end of isolation before traveling freely around Italy, obviously respecting only the rules of colors. The Italian green certificate will come into force on 16 May and will be the “ tourist ” counterpart of the currently valid model from April 26 to move to or from an orange or red region. The pass should be valid for European tourists and experts are evaluating the possibility of extending it to countries that are very advanced in vaccinating their population, such as Israel or the United States . As explained in the Government FAQ , the green certification for moving between regions is a paper or digital certificate useful to demonstrate that you meet one of the following requirements: having received both doses of the anti-Covid vaccine , having tested negative for a swab rapid or molecular during the 48 hours preceding the trip , having contracted the virus and being healed. It is therefore a national version of the European Green Pass.
The European Green pass: a right
As Premier Draghi said, the digital green certificate, the European vaccination pass, will arrive in mid-June. Next Monday, Corriere della Sera writes, testing will begin in a first group of 16 countries, including Italy. A second test phase will start on June 1st, when the European system that will allow the certificate to be issued will be fully operational. Next Tuesday the negotiators of the Council (ie the Member States) and the EU Parliament will meet to find the political agreement on its use and for the definition of the regulation. At that point the certificate, valid throughout the EU, will become a right.
How the European Green Pass will work
The certificate will certify, through an app with a QR code or in paper format, the vaccination against Covid-19 and the number of doses received, the healing in the previous six months and the presence of the relative antibodies, or the negative outcome of a swab, PCR or rapid (technical details on this will be negotiated by the co-legislators). The pass will be certified with an electronic signature , to avoid fraud and falsification. Out of respect for privacy , personal data cannot be stored in the destination country, nor will there be a centralized EU database. Each Member State will be able to establish entry requirements into its own territory . The EU Parliament has asked to extend the duration of the certificate for one year. Furthermore, to avoid discrimination, MEPs believe that EU countries should guarantee universal, accessible, timely and free tests.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-sara-il-green-pass-italiano-secondo-draghi/ on Wed, 05 May 2021 13:13:08 +0000.