Trieste has been the scene of the largest protests against the mandatory use of the anticovid health certificate.
COVID-19 infections are increasing in northeast Italy, the area where the largest anti-vaccine protests have been registered, with special attention to Trieste, but also in other areas of its region, Veneto, while the authorities have given the way free to the administration of a new dose of for those vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson serum.
In Trieste, to face the epidemiological emergency, its mayor, Roberto Dipiaza, today issued an urgent ordinance to reliably control respect for distancing and the use of masks among the participants in the demonstrations that are called in the city during the month of November.
The control personnel must have a ratio of one for every 100 protesters and their names will be handed over to the police, according to local media.
The measure comes when epidemiological data place the province of Trieste as the one with the highest number of infections in the country, 376 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the only one that exceeds the threshold of 150, while in its region, Veneto , all provinces exceed 50 per 100,000, as revealed today by the Gimbe medical foundation.
Its president, Nino Cartabellotta, assured that “in the last week an increase in new weekly cases has been confirmed at the national level, although more contained than the previous one” and that “in all regions, except Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sicily and Umbria, there is a percentage increase in new cases, with 43 provinces having an incidence equal to or greater than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants “.
Trieste has been the scene of the largest protests against the mandatory use of the anticovid health certificate for all workers, which came into force on October 15.
Dozens of stevedores from the port of that town, the gateway to Eastern Europe, occupied dock 4 of the port for several days, without blocking it but slowing down port activity, until riot control agents evicted them with charges, tear gas and pressurized water. , which caused numerous tensions.
Also in Padua (Veneto, northeast) the cases of COVID-19 have increased, reaching 110 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in recent days, when some outbreaks have been found in seven hotels in the city, of which their Residents are 90 percent tourists, as well as in several schools, which has forced 34 classes to be quarantined.
On the other hand, the Scientific Technical Committee of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) approved this Wednesday that a new dose of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine be administered to the nearly 1.5 million Italians who had received a single dose six months after the first inoculation.
“The most recent evidence confirms the efficacy of a booster dose (especially with the mRNA vaccine) in enhancing the immune response to the COVID-19 Janssen vaccine. Therefore, it is considered appropriate that those vaccinated (…) receive a heterologous booster dose (…) starting 6 months after the first dose, ”AIFA said in a statement. (I)
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