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Thousands have demonstrated over COVID passes being made mandatory for employees to enter their workplaces.
The Green Pass, which is an extension of the EU's digital COVID certificate, contains a QR code with the personal information of every citizen.
The prices of the health certificates ranged from €100 to €500, with discounts offered for those purchasing multiple certificates, such as the "family package".
taly on Thursday made its anti-Covid "green pass" obligatory for all employees, in a bid to boost vaccine rates ahead of the winter flu season. The law, which will penalise workers who are unvaccinated or do not have proof of a recent negative coronavirus test, is set to come into effect on October 15. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta reports from Rome.
The Italian government approved on Thursday some of the strictest anti-Covid-19 measures in the world, making it obligatory for all workers either to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from infection. The new rules will come into force on Oct. 15 in the latest effort by Prime Minister Mario Draghi's broad coalition to persuade people to get inoculated and blunt contagion in one of the countries worst-hit by the virus.
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