Covid, Mattarella: “Not yet defeated, but the worst is over”

“After more than two and a half years of pandemic, we cannot yet proclaim final victory over Covid-19. It is still necessary to show responsibility and precaution. Public health has the task of maintaining high security, especially for the most vulnerable, the elderly and those with previous illnesses. However, we feel that the most dramatic period is behind us”. This was stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the celebration of the “Research Days”.

In the fight against the Covid “science has been decisive. Just like the dedication of the nursing staff, in all their roles. As was solidarity, in its most diverse expressions, at all levels: from simple gestures of mutual aid between families, in communities, to the common choices made by the European Union”, underlined the head of the ‘State. “Without the admirable commitment of science to identify vaccines, discovered and produced in record time, also thanks to the discoveries made in the fight against cancer today, we would be forced to count several thousand additional deaths.”

Covid, Mattarella: “If today we can face covid as if it were the flu, it’s thanks to vaccines”

“If today we can, in most cases, deal with covid, as if it were a less insidious flu, it is because its dangerousness has been greatly downgraded due to vaccination; of the great adherence to vaccination, due to the admirable sense of responsibility of almost all of our fellow citizens, driven to resort to it by the awareness of safeguarding, in this way, their own health and that of others”, concludes the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.

The Head of State: “Use the resources of the Pnrr to increase health efficiency”

The President of the Republic then underlines that “the pandemic has made us understand the importance of the National Health Service and how precious its universalist character is, that is to say the vocation to protect all citizens without exclusion. At the same time, we have also touched the limits of our structures and our health organization, as it has evolved over the decades. Even in the field of health, so essential to a full right of citizenship, we are called upon to make the best use of the resources of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to increase its effectiveness”.