Green Pass, NYT: “Italy raises the bar”

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Italy’s position on the mandatory Green Pass for the entire workforce – both public and private – is the “boldest position” in Europe and the one adopted by the Rome government is “one of the toughest lines in the Western world”. The New York Times writes, according to which our country has “raised the bar for Western democracies that want to overcome the pandemic”.

“The law goes beyond those of other European countries or the United States in promoting” vaccination against Covid, which has become a “central – albeit highly contested – part of the strategies” of governments to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the newspaper emphasizes. recalling that Italy was “the first democracy” to launch the lockdown and “is again the first to cross a new threshold” with the obligation of the Green Pass, with which it clarifies that it is willing to use “the enormous lever of the state to try to curb the pandemic and keep its economy moving “.

The NYT therefore points out that the obligation of the Green Pass has “provoked protests” and some workers, even at the port of Trieste, did not show up for work today. The measure, concludes the newspaper, has so far not faced “any serious legal challenge” and the prime minister, Mario Draghi, and his government “say they are confident that the courts” will not revoke it.

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