With an eye on the summer season, Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia said tourism in Italy could finally reopen on June 2.
"June 2nd is our national holiday and it might be the right date”, announced Garavaglia. A symbolic date, therefore, with a very important meaning for the economy of the entire country.
According to him, It's time to look to the future and start making plans for the summer, with a view to the long-awaited reopening of the country.
“You can’t plan later. There are companies that can open at night and others that cannot, such as large hotels. You need to monitor the data and based on that data, open as quickly as possible. We need to plan to be fast, otherwise others will overtake us”, explained Garavaglia, in an interview with the program Omnibus, on channel La7, this Thursday (8).
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Obviously, caution is needed: “The topic is: programming and monitoring. We give serious protocols and dates.”
But to reactivate tourism in Italy it will be necessary to continue adopting appropriate security measures to prevent an increase in infections.
This Thursday (8), Italy registered another 17.221 cases and 487 deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing the total number of infections and deaths to 3.717.602 and 112.861, respectively.
Among the possible strategies for reopening tourism, the introduction of a health passport stands out.
A European Union has already given the green light to the implementation of the Green Pass, which will allow you to travel abroad easily: “It is not discriminatory and already exists in Sardinia. It is a model that is gaining ground”, explained Garavaglia.
The passport is essential to accelerate the reopening, obviously coupled with a massive vaccination campaign. Something that Italy has not been able to do.
So far, the country has recorded 12 million doses of vaccines against the new Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus.
At the current rate, it would take 10 months and 18 days to cover 70% of the population. Target would be achieved in February 2, 2022, against government forecasts in August 2021.
84.342.495 doses must be administered to vaccinate 70% of the Italian population (2 doses per vaccinated person). The latest 7-day moving average of doses administered per day in Italy is 224.664.
