Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome’s Via Veneto and other main streets, many clashing with police, to protest a government rule requiring Covid-19 vaccines or recent negative tests to access workplaces starting next week.

The certification in Italy, known as a Green Pass, takes effect on October 15 and applies to public and private workplaces. The protesters first held a noisy, authorised protest in Piazza Del Popolo. Then demonstrators left the vast square and clashed with police as they headed through nearby Villa Borghese Park and then down Via Veneto in an unauthorised march.

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