San Marino participates in Italy to really restart
AGI state – the reopening has already been defined about ten ago, the streets of the Republic of San Marino are deserted despite the weekend and many shutters are lowered. On the Titano since last Monday, restaurants and bars have been open until 9.30 pm, while from April 19th this time will move to 11 pm and the gyms will also be operational again.
“It’s not that from a working point of view there is all this rush to the restaurant – says chef Luigi Sartini, a well-known San Marino restaurateur – also because the hours of 9.30 pm in the middle of the week for people who work are difficult to put into practice. Expectations – he maintains – are rising for next week. There is a difference in the age groups – explains Sartini, who is also president of Usot, the San Marino association of tour operators – about the fears of getting infected. Those who are a few years older are a little on their own, are very fearful, ask for certain guarantees, while the younger group is more confident “.
For the real restart San Marino then wait for Italy which has already defined its calendar of reopening from April 26: without the tourists, the Italians and in particular the Romagnoli, the public establishments of the Titano do not hold up only with the local clientele.
Vaccinations with Sputnik
In the meantime, in the small state, anti-Covid vaccinations are progressing rapidly above all thanks to the Russian ‘Sputnik V’: the total of administrations from the beginning of the campaign until yesterday is 21,384 of which 12,948 are the people vaccinated with the first dose and 8.436 with also the second.
If those who have contracted the virus are added to these data, it emerges that about 50% of the target population is already immunized. In the event of a favorable opinion of the EMA on the Russian serum, the possibility could open up that the Titan will collaborate to administer it to frontier workers who are thousands. In recent days, the switchboards of the reservation center have been invaded by calls from Italians asking for the possibility of buying Sputnik, requests which have all been rejected since for the moment this serum is reserved only for users followed by the San Marino health service.
Covid cases on the decline
Meanwhile, the total cases of Covid descend on the Titan: the latest bulletin issued by the Social Security Institute counts a total of 215, considering the eight newly infected and the 42 recovered. Since the beginning of the pandemic, San Marino has counted 5,026 infected and 87 deaths. In the small state hospital, 22 people are currently hospitalized, four of whom are in the intensive care unit. The San Marino hospital has faced difficult weeks in which the resuscitations have exhausted their available places. On the travel front, as also announced by Italy, the San Marino government is also preparing a pass certifying the vaccination. An expected project which, however, according to local authorities, will require European coordination.