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A plan for the Christmas in the moment of COVID-19 it’s not black and white yet. But in the long summits at Palazzo Chigi and in the sidelines talks between ministers after the dramatic record of the epidemic, some ideas emerge. But Roberto Speranza (Health) stops, says that “everything is premature.” Because every decision will depend on how well the health system is and how the contagion curve will be in forty days. And because, if the alarm remains high, and the containment measures adopted so far and those to be taken in the coming days have not had the desired effects, the margins will be minimal.
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Suffice it to say that there is currently a curfew throughout Italy from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., so if the situation does not improve and the tension does not loosen, more than a Christmas dinner, it is advisable to resort to an aperitif. And if Christmas lunch is saved, those who live in the “Red Regions” – and therefore cannot leave home if not for work, health or necessity reasons – would be forced to spend Christmas Day alone with their families. At the same time, family reunions between people residing in regions of different colors would be prohibited: a double jump (from red to yellow, where it is allowed to cross the borders) of Lombardy, Calabria, Piedmont and perhaps Campania (it is decided today) is unlikely ). How difficult (but not impossible) it will be to find Sicily, Puglia, Umbria, Tuscany, Abruzzo among the regions of the yellow band in 40 days.
However, this is not the Christmas that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte imagines, who fears for the psychological stability of the country and for the serious repercussions on Christmas consumption. The idea that is gaining momentum in the government, always in the hope that the epidemic will give some respite, is to grant a brief waiver of the restrictions (if they had not relaxed). And allow Italians to spend their holidays with “closest relatives, first degree,” as the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, and the Undersecretary of Health, Sandra Zampa say. Translation: parents and children, brothers and sisters. But paying the utmost attention. Preserving the elderly. Avoiding hugs and kisses. Possibly wearing the mask until you sit down at the table. Because, as the data shows, 75-80% of infections run in the family.
“Extreme caution”
And if the recommendation to do a quick swab or a serological test before Christmas dinner or New Year’s Eve seems out of the question, since the system already close to collapse would implode before a massive and simultaneous request for analysis, the government will request the Italians “extreme caution “. “It will be a Christmas,” explains Walter Ricciardi, adviser to the Minister of Health, “in which, unfortunately, the circulation of the virus will continue to be intense, so it will not be possible to open dinners, gatherings, people who do not know each other and who are close to each other. It will be a Christmas with loved ones, knowing that loved ones in turn have adopted wise behaviors and that they are attentive to distance and hygiene. “In short:” A sober Christmas of the utmost caution ” .
Then there is the issue of consumption: if Christmas does not take off, it will be a fatal blow to the economy. Therefore, it is thought to grant an extension of the opening hours of the stores, reserving the first two hours of purchases (as Veneto, Emilia and Friuli decided yesterday) for those over 65 years old and, therefore, with greater risk: Covid. It is not excluded, if epidemiological data allow it, also opening on Sundays. Shopping centers included. But without the free ones all last summer because, as the infectious disease specialist Massimo Galli says, “if we face Christmas and New Year’s Eve like Ferragosto, we won’t go out anymore.”
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