Italy’s vaccine-sceptic health minister sacked every member of the country’s top panel of health advisors on Monday, saying that she wanted to give “space to the new.”
Health Minister Giulia Grillo, a member of the vaccine-sceptic Five Star Movement, fired all 30 members of the Higher Health Council, which is responsible for advising the government on health policy.
The move, Grillo says, is to open the door to more “deserving personalities” on the council, which has raised concern by many to the expertise of the new members and whether their selection is politically motivated.