Official, culture banned for the unvaccinated. Super Green Passes for museums, cinemas, theaters

From Dec. 6 and until Jan. 31, 2022, culture will be de facto banned for non-vaccinating people. In fact, the government has just passed the decree-law introducing “Urgent measures for the containment of the Covid-19 epidemic and the safe conduct of economic and social activities”: in particular, a strengthened Green Pass (journalistically already known as the “Super Green Pass”) will come into effect, which will be issued only to those vaccinated or cured of Covid-19. The Super Green Pass will be used for any cultural activity: museums, cinemas, theaters, indoor and outdoor performances from Dec. 6 can therefore be attended only if one is vaccinated or cured of Covid. The same goes for all recreational activities, from bars to restaurants, dance clubs to gambling halls. The Super Green Pass will remain in effect after January 31, 2022 in the yellow, orange and red zones.

The Green Pass as we have known it so far (i.e. granted in the presence of vaccination, recovery or negative, antigenic or molecular swab) remains mandatory to travel to work or to take public transportation, but the list of activities requiring it is increased: also from December 6, the Green Pass will also be mandatory to enter hotels (until now it was not), for regional and interregional rail transportation, local public transportation, and will also be extended to the locker rooms of all indoor and outdoor sports activities. The validity of the Green Pass has also been reduced: no longer 12 months, but 9. All rules apply from the white zone on up.

The obligation to vaccinate, hitherto in force only for health and RSA personnel, is further extended to other categories: non-health sector personnel, law enforcement, military, to all school personnel. There will also be mandatory third dose, or booster in the case of Johnson vaccine. There will then be strengthened controls in all places where the Green Pass is used. Finally, as of December 1, all people over the age of 18 will be able to book the booster dose.

“We want to prevent to preserve and to conserve,” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said at a press conference. “We want to be very prudent to avoid risks and to be able to preserve what we have won, that Italians have won over the course of this year. Our memories go immediately to the nearly 134,000 deaths over the past year and a half, to the 8-9 percent drop in economic activity that has few equals if any in the European Union, to memories of closed businesses, closed restaurants, closed stores, kids who did a year of school in DaD and didn’t do well (some of them are still suffering from that experience), and most of all to memories of how poverty has grown. This year Italians have responded, there has been a 6 percent growth, we have resumed our social life and interactions, we have started to be normal again in essence. That’s the spirit of the measures: we want to preserve this normalcy, we don’t want risks. It is by looking at the desire to want to continue to be open, to go out and about, to shop, to have fun, to fight poverty, to see kids happy, that these measures were taken.”

“In the new use of the Green Pass,” said Health Minister Roberto Speranza, “there is a very positive element that I would like to emphasize, which is that in the color shift that can take place in the event that regions can exceed certain indices, we will avoid restrictions for the vaccinated. The underlying message is a strengthening of the Green Pass to avoid closures, to avoid reductions in capacity. We try to have stricter and strengthened discipline cell the use of the Green Pass but we counterbalance that with what the government’s goal is, which is to reduce restrictions.”

Official, culture banned for the unvaccinated. Super Green Passes for museums, cinemas, theaters

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