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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-80/
- Published: 2021-07-25T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-26T10:13:35.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, Featured, News, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

#### Protests across Italy against COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates

> ROME (AFP) – Thousands of people protested in cities across Italy on Saturday (July 24) against [the government’s introduction of restrictions on unvaccinated people](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/italy-introduces-green-pass-restrictions-to-curb-covid-19-surge?ref=goodoil.news) as Rome tries to slow an upturn in Covid-19 infections.  
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> “**Freedom!**” and “**Down with the dictatorship!**” chanted Italian flag-waving demonstrators from Naples in the south to Turin in the north, while rain-soaked protesters in Milan shouted “No Green Pass!”.   
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> The vast majority were not wearing masks.  
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> The Green Pass, which is an extension of the EU’s digital Covid certificate, will be required from Aug 6 to enter cinemas, museums, indoor swimming pools or sports stadiums, or eat indoors at restaurants.\[…\]  
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> “**Better to die free than live like slaves!**” read one placard held up outside Milan’s Gothic cathedral, while another in Rome’s historic centre read “Vaccines set you free” over a picture of the gates to Auschwitz.  
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> Protesters in Genova were wearing yellow Star of David badges declaring them “unvaccinated”.

> Italians against Coronavirus measures fill the streets of Milan [pic.twitter.com/EkM1C8FebC](https://t.co/EkM1C8FebC?ref=goodoil.news)
> 
> — Camus (@camus37) [July 24, 2021](https://twitter.com/camus37/status/1419051445635145732?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=goodoil.news)

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