Anti-covid vaccine will not be mandatory in Italy, says prime minister

Italy should have a vaccine available by the end of the year, but the subject is controversial

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said last night that the future vaccine against the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 will not be mandatory.

The prime minister was asked about the subject during an event organized by the Affari Italiani website in Ceglie Messapica, in the south of the country.

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“I don’t believe that [the vaccine] should be mandatory, but it will certainly be made available to the population,” he stated.

Conte also said that he hopes to have a vaccine available by the end of the year, although the scientific community's predictions are only for 2021, which would already be an unprecedented feat.

The question of Mandatory vaccination is a controversial topic in Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the new coronavirus pandemic in the world, with around 250 cases and just over 35 deaths.

In 2017, the government of the then Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, from center-left, approved a law which made vaccination of school-age children mandatory, but the project faced a lot of resistance, including from the anti-system 5 Star Movement (M5S), the party that nominated Conte for the position of prime minister.

By Ansa Agency