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Strict controls will also be introduced at airports, train stations and shopping streets starting this weekend to prevent mass movements, and Italy is expected to close completely from December 24 to January 3, the minister and minister said on Thursday. interprovincial.
The so-called provincial minister, Francesco Boccia, has announced that the government is preparing for a complete shutdown of the country during the holidays. Final austerity measures will be announced by the Prime Minister on Friday or Saturday.
According to press reports, between December 24 and December 26 and between December 30 and January 3, a full-day curfew will be imposed across the country, and commerce and hospitality will also stop. According to other reports, there will be no break in the restrictions and they can last until Epiphany, that is, until January 6.
Before that, the interprovincial traffic ban will go into effect on December 21. Therefore, significant traffic is expected over the weekend: high traffic is expected at airports, train stations and motorways. It is the last weekend of Advent, so crowds of shoppers can also be expected in the city center, especially since the malls are closed and the stores will be open until nine at night. Authorities want to avoid what happened last weekend when crowds flooded the shopping streets ignoring the safety distance and police had to be deployed to divert people.
Starting Friday, strict inspections will be launched to avoid congestion: the Interior Ministry will send 70,000 police and soldiers to the roads and streets, drones will also be deployed to regulate pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
A limited number of people will be admitted on the shopping streets, one-way pedestrian traffic will be introduced in the center of Milan, and efforts will be made to dismantle congestion on the motorways, including in rest areas. According to the measures, only two people can be in each vehicle, if they do not live in the same household, and the use of a mask in cars is mandatory in all cases. Violation of the regulations will result in fines of up to four hundred thousand euros.
There is a special route in the northeastern province of Veneto, where from December 19 to January 6 the province will be closed from 2:00 p.m. every day: everything will work in the morning, everything will stop in the afternoon, the traffic between cities and towns and the external borders of the province. also sealed.
Rather than shutting down, the Republic of San Marino will lift the above restrictions during the holidays. In the mini-state with more than 33,000 inhabitants, there are twenty infected in the hospital, five on ventilators.
According to data from the Italian Ministry of Health on Thursday night, 18,236 new patients were examined in one day, compared to just over 17,000, with more than 185,000 tests. The proportion of tests performed and infected people screened is still less than 10 percent. The number of hospital admissions is constantly decreasing, still exceeding 26,000. There are 2855 patients intensively. Since February, more than 1.9 million people have been tested, of which more than 1.2 million have recovered.
In one day, 638 people died after the previous 680, bringing the death toll to 67,220.
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