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According to the largest Italian newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, Italy is trying to restart after weeks of spreading, peaking, and curbing the coronavirus epidemic, which started on February 20.
As of May 4, non-vital production will be resumed and closed: factories will be opened, automotive, textile and construction industries will resume, as will the fashion sector.
Commerce must wait until May 18 and hospitality until June, according to the government schedule. Starting Monday, however, bookstores and baby clothing stores will reopen. Presses, cafes and restaurants are not allowed, but they can sell food and drinks.
The resumption means the recruitment of some 4.5 million Italians out of the 7.8 million workers who have stayed home in the epidemic so far. Re-employment does not necessarily mean going to work: about half of the four and a half million start working from Monday.
According to statistics, most of those who return to work in factories and construction sites will be over fifty years old and will work in the northern focal provinces. Whenever possible, work is done in shifts, and factories should ensure that a distance of at least two meters is maintained. More than seventy percent of those who return to work are men, as women continue at home with their children due to a prolonged school break until September.
Starting Monday, curfew restrictions will be relaxed: you can only go outside in justified cases, that is, for work, food and medicine, and for health reasons. At the same time, however, family members will be allowed to visit as well as outdoor sports and jogging outside the residence.
Parks, gardens, villas will be reopened, but playgrounds will remain closed. Free movement between cities and provinces is not yet allowed. Churches will be closed, but funerals with a maximum of 15 people are allowed. You can visit the cemeteries of the province. Masses may be allowed until Pentecost as planned.
According to the multilateral guidelines of the Roman government, community gatherings and events are still prohibited, nor can gatherings of friends be held. In the spirit of community distance, urban public transport is also being relaunched: wearing a face mask and gloves on buses and subways is mandatory, only twenty people can ride the bus at a time and 120 people can ride the train of the subway, leaving every second seat free.
Despite a simultaneous resumption across the country, several provinces are already alone: Luca Zaia, governor of northern Veneto, announced a full opening on Monday, as did southern Campania and Calabria, and emphasized that those arriving from outside their provinces they will be quarantined. On Saturday, the pedestrian streets of Rome, lined with closed shops, the seafront promenades in Naples, and the Milan metro were also crowded. The mandatory face mask was not used by everyone.
Health authorities monitor the spread of the epidemic every two weeks and re-apply restrictions if the infection escalates. The number of infections diagnosed in the country exceeded 207,000, and the number of deaths exceeded 28,000.
Nothing will change from May 4, you can only go out to work, there will be chaos on public transport, families will stay home with their children, promises of government aid are kept
Libero newspaper wrote on the right.
Il Giornale, center-right, believed the quarantine was over, everything would be free in Italian from now on, while family consumption would drop by at least eight percent this year and turnover and hospitality by more than forty per cent.
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