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The bus station becomes a checkpoint for an afternoon, open to about 500 passengers who daily make home deliveries within our municipality and who have the right today free for a quick swab. Bologna is the first city to carry out an operation of this type and it will not be a specific test, according to the commissioner of Works Marco Lombardo: “The intention, thanks to the work in synergy between the administration and the Ausl, is to propose tests periodically. The cyclofattorini simply have to communicate their name, surname and give an email that is needed for the electronic medical record. Within half an hour they will have the result “.
In line outside the laboratory: 5 minutes after the opening there are about twenty
At 3.30 pm the projection begins in a room set up as a laboratory on the ground floor of the bus station. Some pilots were already waiting and at 3:35 p.m. there are already fifteen in a row, including backpacks. Ahmed, 41, from Pakistan, undergoes a swab to protect his family: “Every day I enter buildings where many people pass and although the only gesture I do is deliver lunches and dinners with the mask always on, I prefer to be clear. Also because I have a wife and children at home and I don’t want them to get sick because of me. ”
“I do it to see my family. Between work and them, I choose the affections”
Roberto, 33, is among the first riders to undergo the exam and when he walks out the guarded door he seems to have lifted a burden: “At Christmas I go home and I want to feel comfortable because I have fragile people in my family that I certainly do not want. “. at risk. If I am positive, of course, I will not be able to continue working, but peace: between family and work I choose the first ”. In fact, one of the fears is that in order not to risk having to stop (also lowering the ranking, among other things) and therefore not winning, many decide not to take advantage of this opportunity for fear of being unemployed.
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He knows it well Tommaso falchi, restaurant spokesperson Jockeys union, who is present with many colleagues, is proud to say that it is in Bologna where all this happens for the first time: “We have been fighting for a long time to improve our working conditions and today we put health at the center. They defined the pandemic as an essential service, but then they asked us for a piece rate of three euros an hour and they did not even provide us with the necessary masks and devices to protect ourselves. The signing of the Bologna Charter gave a good boost, although only two of them signed it (My Menu and Domino’s Pizza ed) and today with the free screening for all my colleagues (even those from individual pizzerias) we take another step ” .
Roberto, 33enne pilot
In addition to the passengers at the bus station, there is also Labor Councilor Marco Lombardo, who for months has been vigorously searching for solutions to the many problems related to logistics and delivery: “What is happening today and what is not limit to this day is something very important and we in Bologna do it first. The test is free and voluntary and the data that must be disclosed guarantees high confidentiality. The aim is, of course, to protect the safety of all. What I fear is the phenomenon of digital contracting and the awareness that there may be subcontracts by which a cyclist can ‘rent’ his place to others ”.
