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From Monday Dec 6, Italian police will be able ask to see your vaccination passport.

Only the double jabbed will be able to fully participate in public life using a ‘super green pass’ from Monday

  • Unvaccinated Italians will not be allowed into indoor restaurants, theatres, museums and public events from Monday
  • The ‘Super Green Pass’ requires Italians to be double jabbed rather than providing a negative Covid test result
  • Restrictions follow a steady rise in Covid cases and fears over Omicron variant 

Rachel Bunyan – Daily Mail Dec 6, 2021

Italy has brought in tougher restrictions for unvaccinated people as the holidays draw near, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theatres and museums to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get their jabs.

Only those who have the ‘Super Green Pass’, which requires Italians to be double-jabbed rather than providing a negative Covid test result, will be able to fully participate in public life from Monday.

Italian police will be checking whether those visiting indoor restaurants, bars, concerts, sports events, theatres and public events, have the ‘super’ green health pass until January 15.

The restrictions follow a steady rise of Covid cases in Italy for the past six weeks, with 15,021 infections recorded on Sunday, and a concern about the new Omicron variant which is believed to be more transmissible than the Delta strain.

Elsewhere in Europe, leaders have rushed in a raft of new lockdown measures and travel bans amid panic over rising cases and the arrival of the Omicron variant.

Germany has announced it will lock down its unvaccinated citizens and ban them from most public spaces in the run-up to Christmas, while those in France will have to show proof of vaccination to maintain a valid Covid pass which allows them into public venues.

Italy’s vaccination rate is higher than many of its neighbours, at 85 per of the eligible population aged 12 and older and 77 per cent of the total population. But people in their 30s, 40s and 50s have proved the most reluctant to get vaccinated, with nearly 3.5 million still not having received their first doses.

They are also the same age group that is now being hardest hit by the virus, according to Silvio Brusaferro, head of Italy’s National Health Institute.

While Austria and Germany are moving toward making vaccines mandatory, Italy is instead tightening restrictions on the unvaccinated on the more convivial time of the year.

From Monday,  smart phone applications that check people’s health pass status will be updated and those who have merely tested negative in recent days for Covid will no longer be allowed into public events or public buildings.

Also starting from Monday, people must have a normal Green health pass – which can be obtained with a negative test result – to access  local public transport and stay in hotels.

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