The green passage to the categories to which the green certificate will be extended

Compulsory green lane for state employees, for all categories working in places that actually require it, and possibly also for drivers of local public transport and passengers. The last node in the extension of the green certification, expected with a new decree and measures in place since October, now concerns access to local public transport and vehicle traffic control.

Everyone is waiting for the meeting between unions and companies scheduled for Monday 6 September, When Cgil, Cisl, and Uil see Confindustria and Confapi to discuss the card in the workplace. With no color change in Italy for at least a week (Sicily in yellow, rest of the peninsula in white stripe), the government’s goal remains to reach 80% of the vaccination audience by the end of September. An important fact that now seems at hand but may not mean herd immunity, which will continue the vaccination cycle for at least 7 million more people.

For this reason, expanding the green certification can be one effective measure to raise the level targeting 85% of vaccinated people over the age of 12 in October. The new government’s gambit could include buses, trams and the subway. On a practical level, the procedure can be facilitated by the fact that the control devices are gradually returning to local transport, to check the spacing and use of masks.

The case of the anti-Covid investigations

However, the issue of anti-Covid investigations remains to be clarified in all its aspects: already on the verification of protective devices by public transport inspectors, national negotiations are taking place between the government and the unions, which are currently opposed to it.

Meanwhile, the roadmap launched since August 6 – when it was decided to commit to access to restaurants, bars and cinemas – is ongoing and issues related to expanding the corridor to other sectors will almost certainly be discussed in the control room on Thursday. the following. And the Minister of Health himself, Roberto Speranza, announced after Prime Minister Draghi’s words last Thursday, that in the “coming days” The “decisions” come in order to “extend the degree to other areas of people’s lives.”.

Hope: ‘We can also use compulsory vaccination’

The government representative also added that there was nothing to prevent, should there be a “need”, “to be able to use the vaccination obligation, which already exists for health workers and which is permitted by the Constitution by legislative initiative and which we believe is a tool available to Parliament and the Government if necessary”. Hypothesis, the latter, which seems to lend itself to this in relation to the green lane commitment. But the impact of the next fall wave of the virus on the horizon will influence decisions. For now, the data is fortunately stable: 6,157 positive tests were identified in the last 24 hours and 56 victims in one day. Of the 33,350 swabs performed, the positivity rate was 1.8% compared to the previous 2.2%.