IBOV 179,722.48 ▲ 1.30% IPSA 11,315.26 ▼ 1.14% IPC MEX 65,314.78 ▼ 0.18% MERVAL 3,049,455 ▲ 0.51% COLCAP 2,470.26 ▲ 1.86% BVL PERÚ 59,450.29 ▲ 0.11% USD/BRL5.15▼ 0.14% USD/MXN17.02▲ 0.14% USD/CLP936.45▼ 0.10% USD/COP3,160▼ 1.51% USD/PEN3.36▲ 0.02% USD/ARS1,513▼ 0.02% USD/UYU40.24▲ 1.23% USD/PYG5,873▲ 1.18% USD/BOB12.08▲ 3.98% USD/DOP58.56▲ 0.51% USD/CRC446.47▲ 2.10% USD/GTQ7.62▲ 1.63% USD/HNL26.84▲ 1.46% USD/NIO36.62▲ 0.20% USD/VES799.17▼ 0.13% USD/PAB1.00— 0.00% USD/BZD2.00— 0.00% USD/JMD 157.28 — 0.00% USD/TTD6.69▲ 1.40% EUR/BRL5.96▼ 0.89% BRENT 88.88 ▼ 0.03% WTI 83.11 ▼ 0.11% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.61 ▲ 0.03% GOLD 4,461 ▲ 1.78% SILVER 65.59 ▲ 1.26% SOY 1,184 ▲ 3.20% CORN 480.50 ▲ 10.02% WHEAT 655.00 ▲ 3.93% COFFEE 317.25 ▼ 5.51% SUGAR 16.43 ▼ 1.79% ORANGE JUICE 138.55 ▼ 0.47% COTTON 85.03 ▲ 2.33% COCOA 5,719 ▲ 3.18% BEEF 223.60 ▼ 3.93% CATTLE 339.10 ▼ 3.16% LITHIUM 75.20 ▲ 1.47% PETR4 41.64 ▼ 0.05% VALE3 72.97 ▲ 0.83% ITUB4 38.60 ▼ 1.03% BBDC4 16.85 ▲ 0.36% ABEV3 14.89 ▼ 0.80% BBAS3 19.37 ▲ 0.47% B3SA3 14.26 ▼ 0.21% WEGE3 47.59 ▲ 0.49% PRIO3 59.14 ▼ 0.19% SUZB3 41.33 ▲ 2.35% RENT3 34.68 ▼ 0.09% AZZA3 15.89 ▼ 2.63% CSAN3 3.22 ▼ 1.83% RAIZ4 0.25 — 0.00% PCAR3 2.75 ▼ 0.36% GMAT3 3.65 ▼ 1.08% PSSA3 48.13 ▼ 0.54% CVCB3 1.33 ▼ 2.92% POSI3 3.36 ▲ 2.44% SLCE3 13.34 ▲ 0.30% NATU3 8.14 ▼ 0.73% IBOV 179,722.48 ▲ 1.30% IPSA 11,315.26 ▼ 1.14% IPC MEX 65,314.78 ▼ 0.18% MERVAL 3,049,455 ▲ 0.51% COLCAP 2,470.26 ▲ 1.86% BVL PERÚ 59,450.29 ▲ 0.11% USD/BRL 5.16 ▲ 0.01% USD/MXN 17.06 ▼ 0.24% USD/CLP 913.98 ▲ 0.04% USD/COP 3,140 ▲ 0.03% USD/PEN 3.36 ▼ 0.66% USD/ARS 1,493 ▲ 0.10% USD/UYU 40.27 ▲ 1.24% USD/PYG 5,939 ▲ 1.68% USD/BOB 11.64 ▼ 0.76% USD/DOP 58.34 ▲ 1.25% USD/CRC 445.92 ▲ 0.89% USD/GTQ 7.62 ▲ 2.21% USD/HNL 26.79 ▲ 1.57% USD/NIO 36.62 ▲ 0.69% USD/VES 762.44 ▼ 0.13% USD/PAB 1.00 — 0.00% USD/BZD 2.00 — 0.00% USD/JMD 157.28 — 0.00% USD/TTD 6.70 ▲ 0.61% EUR/BRL 5.95 ▲ 1.01% BRENT 88.88 ▼ 0.03% WTI 83.11 ▼ 0.11% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.61 ▲ 0.03% GOLD 4,461 ▲ 1.78% SILVER 65.59 ▲ 1.26% SOY 1,184 ▲ 3.20% CORN 480.50 ▲ 10.02% WHEAT 655.00 ▲ 3.93% COFFEE 317.25 ▼ 5.51% SUGAR 16.43 ▼ 1.79% ORANGE JUICE 138.55 ▼ 0.47% COTTON 85.03 ▲ 2.33% COCOA 5,719 ▲ 3.18% BEEF 223.60 ▼ 3.93% CATTLE 339.10 ▼ 3.16% LITHIUM 75.20 ▲ 1.47% PETR4 41.64 ▼ 0.05% VALE3 72.97 ▲ 0.83% ITUB4 38.60 ▼ 1.03% BBDC4 16.85 ▲ 0.36% ABEV3 14.89 ▼ 0.80% BBAS3 19.37 ▲ 0.47% B3SA3 14.26 ▼ 0.21% WEGE3 47.59 ▲ 0.49% PRIO3 59.14 ▼ 0.19% SUZB3 41.33 ▲ 2.35% RENT3 34.68 ▼ 0.09% AZZA3 15.89 ▼ 2.63% CSAN3 3.22 ▼ 1.83% RAIZ4 0.25 — 0.00% PCAR3 2.75 ▼ 0.36% GMAT3 3.65 ▼ 1.08% PSSA3 48.13 ▼ 0.54% CVCB3 1.33 ▼ 2.92% POSI3 3.36 ▲ 2.44% SLCE3 13.34 ▲ 0.30% NATU3 8.14 ▼ 0.73%
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Meloni ends vaccination mandate for medical personnel in Italy

By · November 1, 2022 · 2 min read

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The new Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, has decreed in her first package of government measures to end the Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare personnel.

“Science must not be approached ideologically, but with scientific evidence that supports the measures,” Meloni said at a press conference.

“Countless measures have been taken in the past that were not based on scientific evidence.”

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“We are going to proceed with effective measures, with much clearer information,” she clarified.

Giorgia Meloni. (Photo internet reproduction)
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Italy is the nation that has taken the most restrictive measures but has had the highest case fatality rates. Something didn’t work.

“Covid has become an election campaign issue, it has become ideological, and this has not helped us to take effective measures, and anyone who said otherwise was singled out as a monster,” she said.

Of course, the opposition has cried out because they see the somewhat totalitarian control regime going down the drain.

Thus, the leader of the Democratic Party and former unelected prime minister, Enrico Letta, has taken to Twitter to criticize the liberating measure: “The Meloni government made its first choice in its debut of the Council of Ministers,” he wrote from his account on the social network.

The measure will serve, above all, to reinstate in their jobs nearly 4,000 health workers who were dismissed for refusing inoculation at a time of special need for health professionals.

The new Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, explains: “We have a shortage of medical personnel. Therefore, having these unvaccinated doctors back to work serves to counteract the shortage and guarantee the right to health”.

This is no surprise. During the election campaign, in which Fratelli received the most votes, Meloni spoke out clearly against the pandemic measures taken in Italy, which many saw as tyrannical, including mandatory vaccination and the Covid pass.

“In line with what we wrote in the party program and with what we said during the election campaign, we are against the Covid passport and compulsory vaccination because we believe it is not the way to deal with a health emergency,” explained Elisabetta Gardini, Fratelli’s deputy, during the campaign.

The same MP stated that we must turn the page and close this chapter, abolishing the green pass and compulsory inoculation.

“Everything related to health should be decided by the person with his doctor, not by the bureaucrat with his decrees”.

Meloni also intends to set up a commission to investigate all the measures taken by the last two governments during the pandemic, namely that of Socialist Giuseppe Conte and that of Socialist Mario Draghi, who imposed a brutal quarantine and a health passport, respectively.

“We also want a commission to evaluate everything that has been done, both from an economic and health point of view,” Gardini said.

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