Italy’s council of ministers unanimously authorized on Wednesday 5 a new decree-law making vaccination against covid-19 mandatory in the country for people over 50 years of age.
According to the Italian news agency Ansa, which anticipated a draft of the decree, the measure “protects public health and maintains safe conditions for care and assistance services”.
The obligation should start to take effect until the 15th of June, according to the document. People who are proven unable to be vaccinated will be exempt from this obligation.
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THE government Prime Minister Mario Draghi had already made vaccination mandatory for teachers and health professionals since October of last year.
The decision comes on the same day that Italy registered a record of new cases of covid-19, with 189 thousand cases, according to the Italian Ministry of Health. In 24 hours there were 231 deaths.
Italy — one of the first epicenters of the pandemic — has registered 138,000 deaths from coronaviruses since February 2020. As of the 5th, there were 6.8 million confirmed cases.
