The use of the Immune App is on a voluntary basis but doing so could accelerate the return to normal life and a reduction in the hours in front of technological devices, which risk ruining our sight.
Those who have vision problems and need to buy prescription glasses or contact lenses, if they meet the requirements, can access the Vista Bonus.
Among the activities that we hope to be able to resume as soon as possible, including sports. Due to the possibility of getting infected by doing physical activity, the basic sports associations and clubs are closed and to help them, the Government has allocated a special non-repayable loan.
, a notification of exposure to Covid-19 and does not know what to do. This is one of the innovations introduced by the Refreshments Decree and published in the Official Gazette, following the entry into force of the Dpcm of October 18, 2020, which made it mandatory for the local health authorities to upload the codes of positive people.
The service responds to one of the most evident critical issues of the app, denounced by most users, namely that of making people feel abandoned to themselves once they have received the message that communicates that a potentially risky meeting has taken place.
Another fundamental tool to counter the spread of the virus, in the event of high-risk encounters, could be an antiviral nasal spray, currently being tested.
A fact that generates enormous worry and stress and which causes the perception of one's energy level to drop.
At the moment, in fact, the "arrival of the warning" is not followed by any specific indication on what to do, even if the official practice foresees to contact your general practitioner who should subsequently take care to provide all the useful information. Not everyone, however, is aware of this and the ineffective communication, combined with the exceptional work that many doctors find themselves carrying out in this period, in some cases made it impossible to dialogue with all those who needed it.
The toll-free number should finally make up for this lack and represent a direct line between the patient and the health institutions and prevent the people to whom the notification arrives from panicking. This affects both everyday life and sleep, as dreams seem to have changed due to the pandemic, becoming more and more disturbing and agitated.
Furthermore, it can also be called by those who have not received the notification from Immuni but have still been in contact with a positive.
The details of the service
In the chapter of the Refreshments Decree dedicated to this improvement it is clearly specified that «The Ministry of Health carries out contact tracing and health surveillance activities as well as information and accompaniment to the prevention and assistance services of the competent local health companies. To this end, it activates a national telephone and telematic support service for people who have tested positive for the SARS-Cov-2 virus who have had close or casual contact with subjects who have tested positive or who have received an alert notification through the Immuni application, whose data are made accessible to upload the key code in the presence of a positive case. ”At the moment the exact date of activation of the call center is not known but it would seem to be a matter of days.
A total of 4,000,000 euros have been allocated for the realization of the service, divided as follows: 1,000,000 euros for the remaining months of the year 2020 and 3,000,000 euros for 2021.