Super Green Pass for culture and FFP2 requirement for cinemas, theaters and museums

The Council of Ministers unanimously approved the decree law tightening anti-Covid restrictions over the holiday period. For culture, the government reiterated theSuper Green Pass requirement for cultural venues: museums, exhibitions, archaeological sites, libraries and archives, starting Dec. 30, will be accessible only by those who are vaccinated or cured of Covid and have valid green certification. Still, for the cinema, theater as well as “entertainment and live music venues and in other assimilated premises,” the dl reads, “as well as for sports events and competitions that take place indoors or outdoors, it is mandatory to wear FFP2-type respiratory protective equipment.” Also sanctioned is the ban on consuming food and drink indoors while watching a sports show or competition. The obligation will last from the entry into force of the decree law until the end of the state of emergency. The same measure also applies to means of transportation: mandatory FFP2 until the end of the emergency.

In addition, the FFP2 obligation would also affect museums, which were specifically mentioned by Health Minister Roberto Speranza during today’s press conference as one of the places where the measure will come into effect. “The measure,” the minister said, “includes some particular measures that aim at a significant strengthening of the use of masks. Numerous scientific studies, which come to our attention every day, confirm the great importance of masks, and in a special way this importance grows in the face of the presence of a variant that has now been found to have a significant ability to increase infection. Masks will also be mandatory outdoors, and we foresee a provision in which there will be a mandatory FFP2 mask, so the most protective type of mask, for certain areas which are long-distance transportation, local public transportation, theaters, cinemas, museums, indoor sporting events and stadiums. This type of face mask will be mandatory in the places I have indicated so far. Also in these places there will also be a ban on food and beverages if you are indoors.”

Other measures include mandatory outdoor masks throughout Italy (will last until Jan. 31, 2022), mandatory third dose or two doses plus tampon to go to discos, and a ban on outdoor parties for all holidays. Still, the use of the Super Green Pass has also been extended to bars, restaurants, wine bars (including for over-the-counter consumption) and gyms, and the duration of the green certificate from Feb. 1, 2022 will be reduced from 9 to 6 months (the entry into force of this measure has been postponed to give everyone time to adapt).

“At a stage that is not simple, not only in our country but also in other European countries,” concluded Minister Speranza, “we are putting in place measures that we think can create conditions of greater protection for our fellow citizens and for our national health service. The vaccine is and remains the key weapon. The government’s very strong recommendation goes in the direction of people who have not yet been vaccinated to get vaccinated as soon as possible, because this variant has a much, much faster ability to infect than the others, and to people who have already completed the first cycle to get booked as soon as possible according to the indications of the health authorities and to be able to have the booster, because the booster in a particular way offers very significant protection even in the face of the variant that is coming very quickly to our country. The Italian vaccine numbers are very significant and encouraging, this morning we were at 88.7 percent, so a very high and positive number: we have to insist because the vaccine also allows those who cross the virus to be more protected, to have less chance of going to the hospital, and to have largely less chance of having a fatal outcome.”

Super Green Pass for culture and FFP2 requirement for cinemas, theaters and museums

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