Despite this brutal wave of the pandemic, these tourists are still determined to see Rome
A group of nuns were among the hoards gathered in St. Peter’s Square to hear Pope Francis’ Christmas message to the world. Even though the Vatican canceled all public events, the pope delivered his message from the balcony on the basilica, which naturally drew crowds, albeit much smaller than years past.
Italy, like many other countries in Europe, is being inundated by a brutal wave of the pandemic with record numbers of daily cases nearing 100,000 a day. But hospitalizations and deaths are far fewer than previous waves with fewer cases, which has given health authorities reason to believe it is time to change the strategy of closing things down and start to just live with COVID.
Italy recently closed nightclubs and instituted an outdoor mask mandate, but Speranza insisted draconian restrictions, like last year when Italy was locked down for Christmas, were not being considered. “Vaccines are our weapon of choice,” he said. “We will shorten booster times and require people to be vaccinated, but if they are they won’t be punished.”
Italy currently requires a negative PCR or antigen test to enter the country, and health officials have started conducting random tests at the nation’s airports in part to see if people were getting false negative results or perhaps skirting the system by acquiring false test results. The sampling has so far shown a negligible number of positive cases among those who entered, and most did have valid negative tests, implying that no system is foolproof.
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