(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the Italian government's priority is to avoid closing schools and blamed those yet to get vaccinated against Covid-19 for the nation's pandemic woes.
“Most of the problems we have today stem from the fact that there are people who are not vaccinated,” Draghi said at a press conference in Rome on Monday. “It doesn't make sense to close schools before everything else.”
The government successfully challenged in court a decision by the southern Campania region to keep schools closed after the Christmas vacation amid rising infections. Italy recorded more than 100,000 new cases and over 700 new hospitalizations on Monday.
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