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The ICS urges governments to include seafarers among the priority categories for vaccinations
The Italian Shipowners' Confederation writes to the Ministry of Health
January 19, 2021
"The benefits of vaccinating those who are responsible for the transport of the vaccine and PPE all over the world - observed the Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Shipping, Guy Platten - they should be obvious. Governments need to classify seafarers as "key workers" and give them access priority to the vaccine, given that the impossibility of rotating the crews of the ships puts at risk the transport of the medical material necessary for the effort for global vaccination.
The Italian Shipowners' Confederation (Confitarma), which adheres to the ics representing the Italian armament, has announced that it is written in recent days to the Ministry of Health for stress the need to give priority to the vaccination to all workers in the maritime world in order to avoid serious consequences that the spread of the virus could have not only for seafarers on board ships operating in traffic international services, but also for crews on board the cabotage connecting with the islands, with obvious repercussions negative for the entire economy of the country. Priority access to vaccines for seafarers - underlined Confitarma - could finally finally definitively solve the serious problem of maritime rotations abroad.
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