“Extension until December 31”. The announcement comes in the evening. And to give the news of the agreement with Italy on the extension to the San Marino green pass is the Secretary of State for Health, Roberto Ciavatta on state TV. Although the Italian Council of Ministries will have to put an end to the issue, at least for the moment. “We have obviously received guarantees from Italy – explains the San Marino minister – that all this will take place in good time so as not to have any respect for the current derogation”.

Practically, the San Marino people vaccinated with Sputnik, serum not recognized by the European Medicines Agency and therefore also by Italy, until the end of the year they will be safe. Speech that has raised quite a few controversies in recent weeks in San Marino, in view of the entry into force in Italy of the mandatory Green pass for workers. A question that obviously concerns the San Marino citizens who work across the border closely. Now the agreement for an extension has been reached, after an endless series of meetings.

The latest last week. In Rome, the Secretaries of State for Health and Foreign Affairs met a delegation from the Italian side made up of Davide La Cecilia, diplomatic adviser to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, the coordinator of the Technical Scientific Committee and of the Superior Health Council Franco Locatelli, the managers Lucio Lemme and Sergio Iavicoli, Colonel Fassero of the Commissioner structure linked to the Covid-19 emergency and Alessandro Gaudiano for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On that occasion, important steps were taken towards the extension. Confirmation yesterday.

“We also have a long discussion of a hypothesis – explains the Secretary Ciavatta -, and here it will be necessary to verify whether the Italian side will be willing from a technical point of view to review the operating methods of this derogation trying to so that we do not continue to circulate with our vaccination certificate “. Therefore, we are working so that there may soon be a real “integration of the architecture of the Green pass – explains the Minister of the Titan – so that San Marino vaccination is recognized”.