A circular from the Italian Ministry of Health, signed this Thursday by Minister Roberto Speranza, opened the doors of the country to immunized Italian-Argentines with vaccines not accepted by the European Union entity EMA, such as Sputnik and Sinovac.
The Sanitary Passport, or “Green Pass”, as they also call it here, will be given to them after a booster shot is given or “booster” to increase the defenses, with Pfizer or Moderna, the only ones authorized so far in Italy as a third dose.
The measure is also of enormous importance for other Argentines who want to enter the peninsula, once it’s also released for those who will enter as tourists.
Minister Speranza made the announcement at the pharmacists’ inaugural ceremony.
The Sputnik V vaccine in a South Korean laboratory. Reuters photo
Senator Ricardo Merlo said to Clarion that Minister Speranza informed him that the reinforcement of the defenses with Pfizer or Moderna should receive it within six months having received the second dose in Argentina. If the six-month period is over, you will receive two doses to get a high immunization.
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Merlo, leader of the MAIE which is the main movement of Italians abroad, said that “this started on September 9 when we present an agenda in the Chamber of Deputies so that the Health Passport was also consigned to Italians residing outside Italy and who have been vaccinated with Sputnik and Sinovac, which are not recognized by EMA, the European Union drug agency ”.
Merlo, who is born in Argentina, where he lives, recalled that in October he met with Minister Roberto Speranza to raise the problem of Italians abroad, and especially of the Italian-Argentineans who form the main community in the world, with one million and seventy thousand Italian citizens of the six million who live outside the borders.
The Italian-Argentine Senator Ricardo Merlo Photo: Victor Sokolowicz
“Speranza told me that first it was necessary to sensitize the European Union. In fact, Italy did so and the EU agreed to recommend that the Health Passport also be granted to those who were immunized with vaccines. unauthorized within the framework of the European Union of 27 countries, “said Merlo.
The Italian senator said that “we have achieved these objectives without talking too much about party issues and yes about the concrete problems of the people.”
Europe
The European Union announced last week that all Argentines will be able to enter its territory, whether or not they are vaccinated against the coronavirus.
That means that the ban was unblocked for those who are immunized with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine – with one or two doses – and that they could not enter European territory because this drug is not approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) nor by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
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