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AN ITALIAN MAN who wanted a coronavirus vaccine certificate without actually having the jab tried to play the system by presenting health workers with a fake arm, an official said Friday.
Despite the realistic skin colour, nobody was fooled by the silicone limb.
The man, who is in his 50s, was reported to local police following the incident on Thursday night in Biella, northwest Italy.
“The case borders on the ridiculous, if it were not for the fact we are talking about a gesture of enormous gravity,” the head of the Piedmont regional government, Albert Cirio, said in a statement on Facebook.
He said such an act was “unacceptable faced with the sacrifice that our entire community has paid during the pandemic, in terms of human lives, the social and economic cost.”
Stricter rules
The fake arm incident comes ahead of a tightening of the rules Monday in Italy for people who have not yet been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Since August, a “Green Pass” showing proof of vaccination, recent recovery from coronavirus or a negative test has been required for indoor dining in restaurants, to visit museums, cinemas, theatres and attend sporting events.
But from 6 December, these activities will be restricted to holders of a “Super Green Pass”, which is only available to those who have been vaccinated or recently had Covid-19.
The old Green Pass was extended in October to cover all workplaces, and remains valid for this purpose.
That means the unvaccinated can still go to work by showing a recent negative test.
The new restrictions, which are the subject of small protests in city centres across Italy on most weekends, were introduced following an increase in Covid-19 cases, exacerbated in recent days by fears over the new variant Omicron.
Italy was the first European country to be hit by the pandemic in early 2020, but is currently faring better than many of its neighbours.
On Thursday, 16,800 new cases were reported in the previous 24 hours, with 72 deaths.
Almost 85% of the eligible population (aged over 12) are already fully vaccinated, and this week the option of a booster dose was extended to all adults.
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Does that mean the help desk will stop ringing me?
Probably, I’m waiting for the whinge brigade to blame the government for all the job losses……
Windows Vista and Windows 8..need i say more?
You could say something more relevant. Nokia.
Please don’t.
IF it does affect any Irish workforce, let the government know mid September, ya know, when they’re back at work.
Oh and windows 8, something something..
So much for the ‘Knowledge Economy”…
Ah yes, it’s FG/Labour fault a multi national company purchases another company and decides to slim down….. never let the facts stand in the way of a good whinge….
Microsoft is so last Monday..
Microsoft are pure pants.
They bought Nokia for the expertise and IP it has. Now they’re just basically jettisoning the staff that came as part of the deal.
Or maybe making room for the staff of Nokia?
127,000 employees? That’s some wage bill every week. The mind boggles ..
Microsoft has had its day. With their over-complex installation systems, constant failing updates, virus’s and clunkiness. Give me apple over it any day!! Hate them!
They can’t help it if some people are too stupid to use their software.
What does this have to do with Windows? MS have been in the mobile market for a long time. If anyone can get Nokia competing well with Samsung or Apple it’s them
Apple…. Future rulers of Earth if sheep like you do not wake up.
Any computer is capable of breaking if people don’t know how to look after it. Windows inherently isn’t faulty. Its the build of it thats shat out as an OEM version. I bought Windows From Microsoft to run on my a mac side by side. that computer does everything and windows runs perfectly without a peep as does mac os. If you know what your doing most things work and stay working.
Watch this space…everyone will be raving about Microsoft(Nokia) smartphones in circum 12 months
What a shame to see such a large population of soon to be unemployed peoples. While the standard line people trolley out is that big multinational corporations create jobs, which is truthful to the certain extent, the mergers and acquisitions side of big business tends to do the opposite.
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