Coffee and breakfast ceremony at the bar Italy As restrictions on unvaccinated citizens began to take effect, the situation became slightly more complicated.
People can still stand in a bar or sit at a table outside to drink coffee and eat a croissant without Show the so-called green pass. But it won’t if they sit inside.
“But madam, if you don’t have a green pass, you can’t eat croissants in it,” Pasquale Di Sirio, the owner of a bar in Rome’s Esquilino district, told customers on Friday morning. “You have to eat out.”
The lady left without a fuss, as did the other customer without a pass.
“It’s a bit annoying to have to do this because it’s essentially another job,” Dicilio said. “Most importantly, I also need to download an app that you can use to check whether the customer’s green pass is valid-but actually, it is not my job to check people’s files.”
The pass is an extension of the pass EU’s Digital Covid Certificate, It must be served indoors in restaurants, as well as in stadiums, museums, theaters, cinemas, exhibition centers, swimming pools and gyms.
From September 1st, teachers and college students, as well as travel by train, plane, ferry and long-distance bus will be compulsory to use the pass.
It applies to people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine and people who have recently recovered from Covid-19, or who have presented a negative test certificate before participating in any restricted activities.
In the days before the pass became mandatory, some bar and restaurant owners reported that after warning customers about the requirement, they were insulted and threatened by anti-vaccineists, or on Tripadvisor for their premises Made a bad comment.
Although there have been some protests across Italy since the pass was announced in July, the level of response has been different Just like in FranceIn recent weeks, similar initiatives have led to demonstrations in which approximately 300,000 people took to the streets. The French Constitutional Court on Friday approved the expansion of requirements for bars and restaurants, as well as national health passes for long-distance travel by train or coach.
“It’s not great to ask customers for passes, but we have no choice,” said Andreina, another Roman bar owner. “If it encourages people to get vaccinated and we avoid another lockdown, then this is a good thing.”
When the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced the plan in July, he urged all Italians to get vaccinated. “If there is no vaccination, we will have to shut everything down again,” he said.