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Grimaldi (ALIS): include transport and logistics operators among the priority categories for vaccination
It is necessary - he stressed - to concretely protect the health of those who guarantee the delivery of goods and basic necessities every day
January 21, 2021
"If it is true that, as the government, the order of priority must take into account the risk of disease, as well as the availability of vaccines themselves, is equally legitimate -- noted the President of ALIS -- to believe that the whole people of transport and logistics should be one of these priority categories, in particular consideration of the fundamental work done in sourcing for the whole of our country, and in particular for the supply of vaccines themselves, medicines and sanitary products for hospitals, and for the supply of all the great distribution and the industrial and agricultural and food, etc.'
"Seafarers, drivers, railway workers, warehouse workers, agents and port terminal operators and - recalled Grimaldi - are in fact continuing to work with a strong sense of duty, courage, professionalism and responsibility, and for this reason it is necessary to protect them as essential in the chain of the overall supply of goods.'
"After the applause and the signs of closeness and esteem from the Pope and the government to the men and women of transport and logistics for the heroic work done during all phases, especially the most critical ones, the emergency the president of ALIS concluded that it is institutions that today the ALIS cluster is calling for the maximum attention to concretely protect the health of those who guarantee every day the delivery of goods and basic necessities, including food, healthcare and pharmaceutical products, so such as the very distribution of vaccines throughout the territory the national level.'
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