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Italy may scrap vaccine certificates for young children
Source: The Guardian
Italy may scrap vaccine certificates for young children
Move by Five Star and League senators follows intervention by Matteo Salvini
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Mon 1 Apr 2019 16.13 BST
Italy may scrap its requirement for parents to provide proof that their children have been vaccinated before they start nursery.
The senate’s health committee is expected to pass an amendment dropping the obligation next week, sparking further controversy over the populist coalition government’s ambiguous vaccine policy. The measure would then be put to parliament.
The amendment was signed by Pierpaolo Sileri, the committee’s president and a senator with the Five Star Movement (M5S), and the vice-president, Maria Cristina Cantù, a senator with the far-right League.
The change to the current law, which denies unvaccinated children access to nurseries, was reportedly drafted without the knowledge of Giulia Grillo, the M5S health minister. She is yet to comment publicly on the amendment.
Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister and leader of the League, recently wrote to Grillo asking that unvaccinated children be allowed to attend nursery, after hundreds were turned away because their parents had not provided a doctor’s certificate.
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Move by Five Star and League senators follows intervention by Matteo Salvini
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Mon 1 Apr 2019 16.13 BST
Italy may scrap its requirement for parents to provide proof that their children have been vaccinated before they start nursery.
The senate’s health committee is expected to pass an amendment dropping the obligation next week, sparking further controversy over the populist coalition government’s ambiguous vaccine policy. The measure would then be put to parliament.
The amendment was signed by Pierpaolo Sileri, the committee’s president and a senator with the Five Star Movement (M5S), and the vice-president, Maria Cristina Cantù, a senator with the far-right League.
The change to the current law, which denies unvaccinated children access to nurseries, was reportedly drafted without the knowledge of Giulia Grillo, the M5S health minister. She is yet to comment publicly on the amendment.
Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister and leader of the League, recently wrote to Grillo asking that unvaccinated children be allowed to attend nursery, after hundreds were turned away because their parents had not provided a doctor’s certificate.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/italy-may-scrap-vaccine-certificates-for-young-children-five-star-matteo-salvini
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