“Today I signed the further extension until 30 April 2023 of the obligation to use masks in health, social and health facilities, including outpatient clinics and general practitioners’ offices”. Thus the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, in the information to the Senate on health control measures at airports for passengers from China, listing a series of “further measures” adopted in our country, in the face of the epidemiological evolution of Covid-19 in China which the minister himself defined as “paradoxical”.
Schillaci reported that the close monitoring of the variants has been “strengthened through the so-called ‘flash surveys’ conducted monthly in collaboration with the Regions, the ‘I-Co-Gen’ platform of the Higher Institute of Health which collects continuous information on the of the variants identified in the main Italian laboratories and the study of the variants present in wastewater”. The preparedness plan for the management of the circulation of Covid in the 2022-2023 winter season has also been defined.
“And finally – announced the minister – to strengthen the monitoring of the epidemiological evolution deriving from the potential risks associated with the situation that has arisen in the People’s Republic of China, I have convened the Crisis Unit envisaged by the Ministerial Decree of 7 August 2019 for tomorrow as an observatory of the ministry on the subject”.