Cancellations for New Year's Eve in Sardinian hotels are not yet arriving and at Elmas airport between tomorrow and Monday sixty thousand departures and arrivals of passengers are expected.
From the 1st to the 20th December there were 143 thousand: it is not like 2019, but there is a clear recovery. But the island's hoteliers fear what the government will decide tomorrow.
Among the measures under consideration to stem the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 during the holidays, there is also that of the obligation to request a tampon even for vaccinated people who want to participate in New Year's Eve parties or dinners.
"So yes - thunders Paolo Manca, president of Federalberghi Confcommercio Sardegna - that we would see cancellations rain, in a context that certainly does not recall the glories of the end of 2019, when the virus was unknown." What all Sardinian hotels that organize something for New Year's they will do is halve the "covers".
Even at the THotel in Cagliari, reservations are suspended pending to see if the mandatory swab for vaccinated people, during the holidays, will really be introduced by the Government. “But more than the obligatory buffer - snorts the director Davide Collu - what sinks the hotel sector even on New Year's Eve is the question of connections with the Peninsula and abroad: the situation is disastrous, other than a pandemic. At the New Year's Eve dinner we will have mainly Sardinians and emigrants who return for the holidays ".
“We are not afraid of the changes of rules - explains Paolo Manca of Federalberghi -. Everything can be decided, for the collective good and public health, but not always at the last moment. Thus only damage is done to sectors that have already suffered too much from the consequences of the pandemic ”.
THE RACE OF OMICRON - To date there are three confirmed cases of Omicron in Sardinia. It is a man who landed in Alghero at the end of November on his return from South Africa and a family member. On Monday there was a girl arriving from London, living in the metropolitan city of Cagliari, vaccinated, she is fine. And yesterday in Sassarese two other suspects emerged - a person who was in the Middle East and a close contact with him - for which confirmation is awaited.
"The indication of the ISS is to sequence 5% of the positive swabs that meet certain requirements, for example of subjects who were abroad, vaccinated or reinfected - explains Salvatore Rubino, director of the Aou Microbiology laboratory. of Sassari - but the flash survey started yesterday, all the laboratories have to 'photograph' the situation of the Omicron diffusion and tomorrow the preliminary data will be used by the government control room which will decide on any future restrictions ".
According to the microbiologist, "the Omicron variant we will really see in about twenty days, in the meantime the obligation to vaccinate would be good and right".
(Unioneonline)
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