Thursday, April 1, 2021
Rebecca Couto da Silva joins GoLocal LIVE from Bolzano, Italy where she talks about frustration in the north of the country – and what lies ahead for Easter weekend in what is now the second year of the pandemic.
“There is a sense of frustration with the vaccine launch here,” said da Silva. “I think it’s going pretty well but of course we have AstraZeneca fears.”
“It’s getting fun again and Easter Sunday is coming and the national rule for Easter Sunday is that you can spend it with two adults you don’t live with, and you have to wear a mask all the time,” said da Silva. “People probably follow two adult rules – I don’t know how you have an Easter lunch in a mask.”
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And the church?
“From what I can see, this is not a procession, no procession, no procession – they are trying to avoid responsibility for the crowd,” he said. “There are so many official positions not to make a crowd.”
As of Tuesday, there were 16,055 new coronavirus cases in the country – as of February 1, there were 7,925 cases with cases continuing to rise.
“It’s very intense here. From what I’ve read, this is the variant – affecting new populations … naive, in the sense that you can get it again if you ever had it once.”
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