Some 92.1% of Italian teachers and
other school and university staff have had at least one COVID-19
jab, or the single J&& jab, Emergency Commissioner Francesco
Figliuolo said in his weekly report Friday.
This was 1.65% up on the last weekly report.
Some 7.9% have not had any dose.
Some 3.7 million people in Italy over the age of 50 have not had
any jab, Figliuolo said.
Italy's head teachers on Friday warned that unvaccinated
children would be "marginalized" by classmates wanting to take
off their face masks.
Officials said Friday that the Delta variant now accounted for
almost 100% of all new COVID cases.
The Lazio regional administrative court (TAR) on Thursday
rejected a plea from teachers who were suspended because they
did not have the COVID-19 Green Pass vaccine passport showing
they had been immunized from the virus.
The TAR said education authorities had acted correctly in
suspending the teachers.
It said the right not to get vaccinated was "not absolute".
Anti-vax teachers are among the many Italians who have been
protesting against the Green Pass. Government tensions rose
Thursday after a rightwing League MP voted against the
government's Green Pass vaccine passport on Wednesday night.
Claudio Borghi voted against the government having made the
passport compulsory for long-distance trains and buses and
domestic airline flights, a move that has sparked widespread
protests by anti-vaxxers.
Planned protests against the Green Pass on trains largely failed
to materialise this week, apart from a 30-strong demo outside
Rome's Termini Station including militants from the far-right
Forza Nuova movement.
In Naples only two demonstrators came to the main rail station
while in Genoa about a dozen protesters turned out, and in Turin
one man was arrested.
In Rimini, an anti-vax stronghold, just a handful of 'No Green
Pass' protesters made it to the station.
Carabinieri police on Thursday escorted a teacher who had come
to school without the Green Pass vaccine passport out of the
building in Turin.
It was the second day in a row that French teacher Giuseppe
Pantaleo had presented himself at the Istituto Curie-Levi high
school without the passport, which is compulsory for teachers
and other staff across Italy.
Premier Mario Draghi on Thursday reiterated a plea for all
Italians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and voiced
"solidarity" with those who had fallen victim to the "odious
violence" of anti-vaxxers. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio,
health officials and journalists have received repeated death
threats because of their pro-vax stances.
He also said the jab would be made compulsory in Italy and
recommended a third booster jab starting with the vulnerable.
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