New Dpcm, Conte sees the majority heads of delegation

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Three areas of the country with diversified risk scenarios and gradually more restrictive measures. Lombardy, Piedmont and Calabria could be the candidate regions for the most decisive squeeze according to the new anti-Covid Dpcm that the government is working to achieve the Prime Minister’s signature, hopefully within the day. The meeting between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Undersecretary of Prime Minister Riccardo Fraccaro, Minister Francesco Boccia and the heads of the majority delegation is ongoing. Given the national framework, the “scientific and objective” criteria validated by the Higher Institute of Health will guide the adoption, case by case, of actions to contain the epidemic. “The attempt being made is not to paralyze the country: it will not be a rigid confinement, but similar to the German model, a light confinement” anticipates the Undersecretary of Health, Sandra Zampa.

General closures

In essence, the action is taken gradually according to the criticality threshold registered at the territorial level. In Parliament, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks of a “new body of restrictive measures” pointing out seven interventions that will affect the whole country: the closure of shopping centers on holidays and before holidays, with the exception of essential activities in the interior (pharmacies, parapharmacies, food, tobacco and kiosks); the closure of “corners” used for betting and gaming activities wherever they are, so no more slot machines in bars and tobacconists; the closure of all museums and exhibitions; the reduction of the filling capacity of buses and subways of local public transport with the capacity ranging from 80% to 50%, a measure requested for months by the Scientific Technical Committee to reduce the spread of the infection.

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School, only elementary and high school in attendance

Absent 75% percent of dad per week and digital lessons at home every day for high school students. But primary and secondary school students, on the other hand, remain in the classroom, at least in regions that have not yet implemented more restrictive ordinances.

Curfew at night (but the time is discussed)

The last two measures at the national level refer to the limit to travel to and from those Regions that have high risk coefficients, which can only be waived for proven work needs, study reasons, health and needs, and the curfew. On this last point the discussion in the government is still open. A generic reference came from the prime minister to “late night circulation limits,” in fact, the executive still disputes whether the election should fall on a 6pm or 9pm curfew.

Italy divided into three

In the first band will be the Regions considered “higher risk”, therefore those where the situation is compatible with the one hypothesized in “scenario 4” of the ISS document with an Rt greater than 1.5 and an “uncontrolled transmissibility” of virus. To consider the current data potentially involved would be Piedmont, Lombardy – both with Rt above 2 – and Calabria but the situation may change: in the next few hours the updated monitoring data will be available, with the CTS that will meet to analyze them in con in order to deliver to the government the most current “photograph” of the epidemiological situation in Italy. This is the range in which the most restrictive measures are envisaged: from local closures at the provincial level for at least 3 weeks to the limitation of individual mobility until the closure of the entire Region with the exception of essential activities. In the second band, on the other hand, there are all those territories in which the risk factor is compatible with “scenario 3”, with an Rt between 1.25 and 1.5 and a “sustained and generalized transmissibility with risks of maintenance of the health system in the middle “. In this case, “slightly less restrictive” interventions are envisaged such as closure of activities, limitations to mobility in Municipalities and Provinces, closure of schools and universities depending on the epidemiological situation. In the last band, the third, all Regions that have a risk index compatible with “scenario 2”, where the TR is between 1 and 1.25, will end.