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Naples’ waterfront promenades and Florence’s shopping streets were packed with people on the last day before closing at zero on Sunday, after the provinces of Campania and Tuscany were declared an epidemic red zone. In Naples, the terraces of the cafes and restaurants by the sea are full.
Maybe this is the last coffee this year that we can have on the terraces of the bars in the sun, the locals said.
The shopping streets of the southern Italian city, as well as the craft shops selling Christmas dolls, were also completely packed. Florence’s shopping streets, already decorated for Christmas, were also full, where merchants said they didn’t know if they could open before the holidays.
The Campania area, with a population of 5.8 million and the province of Tuscany, with a population of 3.7 million, is called red from zero o’clock on Sunday, which means it is particularly at risk. The outer borders of the regions are closed, only entry is allowed and movement within the province is not allowed, unless it is for work, school or other compelling reasons.
Restaurants that can only work take out until 10:00 pm will be closed. Trade will also stop, with the exception of stores that sell food and other basic goods. Sports are also not allowed, except outdoor exercise near the residence.
In addition to Campania and Tuscany, the red zone includes the provinces of Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Calabria and Alto Adige, as well as the Bolzano region, which currently has the strictest restrictions. Governor Arno Kompatscher asked Bolzano residents to go or be taken to hospital only if they were in mortal danger, as the health care system was completely saturated and could barely receive additional patients.
Hardening has also been introduced in the orange and moderately dangerous city of Palermo in Sicily, where the mayor has ordered a ban on stopping from five in the morning until ten in the morning, when it will go into effect anyway a night curfew. The ban applies to being allowed to drive and circulate on the streets during the day, but not stop talking to others, as this, as is customary in Sicilians, immediately leads to smaller groupings.
Nationwide, 37,255 new patients were screened in a single day after nearly 41,000 before, but nearly twenty thousand fewer tests were performed. The death toll was 544 after the previous 550. The proportion of tests done in one day and the number of infections examined did not decline, still around 16 percent, but the number of patients transported to the intensive care unit in one day decreased from less than 120 a week ago.
(MTI)
Top image: Milan, November 13, 2020 Protected medical soldiers work at a rapid coronavirus testing station established to relieve hospitals at the Lombardy headquarters in Milan on November 13, 2020. In February, Lombardy was the focal point from the coronavirus epidemic in Italy and remains one of the provinces in which the second wave of epidemics is spreading the fastest. MTI / AP / Luca Bruno
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