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From a province willing to disobey government prohibitions to a territory that introduces stricter rules than those dictated by Rome. South Tyrol’s turnaround takes place in a week: while waiting for Palazzo Chigi and the regions to emerge from the shoals of the new dpcm, the president of the autonomous province of Bolzano, Arno Kompatscher, announced today a new ordinance that will enter effective from Wednesday. A curfew is foreseen from 20 to 5 (except for exceptions for work reasons, health and force majeure, which will be documented with self-certification), closing of bars, restaurants, ice cream parlors and pastry shops (possible withdrawal until 20 and home delivery by the night), closing retail stores with the exception of pharmacies and parapharmacies, tobacconists, food stores and articles of daily use, the use of public transport up to a maximum of 50% of its capacity, the opening of hotels only for those who need it for reasons commercial, preferential introduction of distance education in secondary schools and universities, prohibition of public and private events (online events are allowed).
The “tear” of October 26
Kompatscher himself announced on October 26 a first ordinance that, on the other hand, was in the opposite direction: in front of the national regulation that provided for the closure of bars and restaurants from 6 in the afternoon, Alto Adige was about to consume an institutional “recess” that allowed their territory to public places to keep customers open until 8:00 pm (bars) and 10:00 pm (restaurants). The ordinance was based on the particular order and powers enjoyed by the autonomous communities, but the intervention of the Minister of the Regions Francesco Boccia, who threatened to appeal to the judiciary against the ordinance, had returned the case. Also because, in the same hours, the governors of Sicily and Sardinia also announced that they wanted to imitate the example of Bolzano.
Kompatscher: “New wave in advance”
The president of South Tyrol was convinced of the sudden turn by the infection trend that did not spare the northernmost region of Italy. «The second wave of Covid-19 has arrived earlier than expected and even experts at the international level were not expecting it so strongly. South Tyrol has gone quite well since the spring and is more organized, we have more places in hospitals for covid therapies and also in intensive care, ”said Governor Kompatscher and Health Councilor Thomas Widmann explaining the new drastic measures. The new lockdown will begin at midnight on Wednesday and will end on November 22. “We have more individual protections, there are proven teams that know how to operate, we have clinical training, we know how to behave,” Kompatscher and Widmann said.
Austria’s “pressure”
The figures registered in the province of South Tyrol have certainly led to more prudent decisions: the new infections in Bolzano and in the valleys had been 308 on October 30, they jumped to 534 on Sunday and yesterday to 437. There are also more than 8,000 people in home isolation. The epidemiological situation in neighboring Austria, a country with which Alto Adige has very close exchanges and now above the threshold of 5,000 infections a day and which has already implemented a partial blockade, does not encourage too “permissive” elections.
November 2, 2020 (change November 2, 2020 | 7:17 PM)
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