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The additional tightening of the Regions comes to prevent many of them from ending up in the red zone in the next follow-up: in the next few hours the ordinances of the governors of Emilia Romagna, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia are expected to put an end to movements and concentrations, and the mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris announces for Friday a “large measure” that will not stop at the closure of individual streets. But on Campania, which for days has had a hospital situation under stress and difficulties in data transmission, now the government is also moving, which until Friday will not update the list of regions in the orange or red zone: the possibility of opening new Covid hotels and strengthening the presence of the Army and Civil Protection from the capital of Campania.
With infections that have surpassed the symbolic threshold of one million cases and with nearly 29,500 people hospitalized in ordinary hospital wards, a number that was never reached even during the first wave, the need to quickly slow the contagion curve continues. being the priority of Prime Minister Giuseppe. Conte and most. However, the government will not move before the arrival of the new data: because the measures introduced with the Dpcm of October 24 and November 3 begin to produce the first positive effects, although minimal; and because only the “objective and scientific” parameters will determine the transitions from one area to another.
Passage, however, granted for the 4 regions for which the president of the Higher Institute of Sanita Silvio Brusaferro requested an advance of the restrictive measures: Campania, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Emilia Romagna. “We must hope that, based on the flow of data and a precise analysis with the established parameters,” confirms the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, some Regions may see an “increase in their alert level.”
However, the government’s line does not exclude that the regions can make more restrictive ordinances and proceed independently, for example to limit the opening of stores on weekends. And, in fact, it is on this path that some regions are moving. Emilia Romagna, Veneto and Friuli are currently in the yellow zone but some parameters place them in scenario 4, the worst, which if more indicators worsened would automatically slide them into the red zone. The objective of the governors is, therefore, to anticipate measures to try to end ‘only’ in the orange zone and reduce the impact on the economy of the territories. “There will be three ordinances, one for each region,” explains the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia, underlining that the measures will be different but they will all follow the same principle: avoid “meetings” and enforce “the rules, for those who have not done them. They still get into your head.
One of the measures could affect bars and restaurants: the hypothesis is to put the mandatory drink on the table and reduce the number of people who can sit in front of the 4 indicated in the Dpcm, said the president of Friuli Massimilano Fedriga. And there will also be interventions to limit movements and regulate the opening of stores, facing the weekend, so as not to repeat the scenes of last weekend. The governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca will not move, who has long called for a national closure and who has returned to ask the prefect for the “quick definition” of a police control plan that can prevent “sensational uncontrolled meetings.” in Naples. That is why the government has decided to accelerate: to address the stress of health facilities, it will intervene with the Army and with new Covid hotels. In Naples, the head of the M5 delegation, Alfonso Bonafede, clearly says that “the State must make its presence felt.”
In the next few hours, therefore, the Civil Protection Operational Committee will be on these points: the head of the Department, Angelo Borrelli, will have to evaluate with the Region what the priority needs are and define the interventions. De Luca had already requested doctors, but it is not ruled out that one or more field hospitals can also be sent, taking into account that in the warehouses of the Emergency Commissioner Domenico Arcuri there are still 1,300 ventilators for intensive care, if it were necessary to update. resuscitations.
