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A Christmas in two phases and a Dpcm that on December 3 loosens the grip to allow the consumption of the holidays before a new generalized closure scheduled for the weekend of December 19 or for the eve of the day before. Although the Italian newspapers open today with a breath of optimism celebrating the not yet achieved goal of withdrawing the epidemic, in reality the numbers tell us that we are still in the middle of the second wave and that the peak will be reached perhaps next week – the Conte government is preparing an unprecedented December for Italians, in which consumption will first be promoted and then traditional dinners and parties will be banned for fear that the third wave will be unleashed by family contagion.
Towards a biphasic Christmas at the Dpcm on December 3?
“This year, unfortunately, we have a different situation, which we certainly cannot think of as having exceptions related to Christmas, because we would defeat all the efforts of these weeks,” Franco Locatelli, the president of the Higher Health Council, said yesterday during the press presentation. . of the Civil Protection Bulletin. Probably, however, Locatelli has not addressed the economy: the government will have to try to mediate between health and consumer needs and, as he writes today The messengerIt is precisely for this reason that it is working on a plan that foresees a December in two phases: first, a relaxation of the measures envisaged from December 3 to allow Christmas shopping; and then a new squeeze until January 10 pending the vaccine that should arrive in the last week of the month.
“In fact, there is nothing more dangerous than family dinners and lunches than bingo, where a single positive is enough to infect fifteen or twenty people,” explains a minister to the newspaper who points out that 80% of infections currently have place in the family. Therefore, what is planned is a Christmas with relatives but without hugs: Christmas Eve dinner reserved for the closest relatives, that is, only cohabitants and the same rules (or “strong recommendations”) also for Christmas lunch, San Stephen. , New Years Eve and Befana. However, we still have to decide how: until yesterday we were thinking about the possibility of using two ministerial decrees for opening and closing, now we are thinking about a more substantial modification of the regulations that includes:
- the inclusion of the prohibition to leave the municipality also for the territories of the yellow zone;
- confirmation of the curfew at 10 pm until mid-month;
- the relaxation of pressure after December 3 for stores, malls and restaurants;
- subsequently, the curfew was held at 11 pm or midnight until December 19 or 23;
The new Dpcm, the opening of stores and shopping centers and travel between regions
the Corriere della Sera He adds that the system of dividing Italy into three colors corresponding to three risk bands could change, if scientists suggest it, but not before the next Dpcm that Prime Minister Conte must sign on December 3. The hypothesis of the government, which yesterday renewed the restrictions for the regions that had entered the red zone first, is that the last ministerial decree expires with all of Italy in the yellow or orange zone. In that case, the slack will come, namely:
- extended store hours;
- the reopening of shopping centers on Saturdays and holidays;
- the opening of bars and restaurants at night also in the orange areas;
- curfew at midnight;
For the newspaper, it will be only two weeks later, between December 17 and 24, that based on the weekly monitoring it is decided whether it is possible to maintain less rigid measures or whether it is necessary to plan new closings for the holidays. “The regions that have shown improving numbers for two weeks may go from the red band to the orange on November 27, but we will also decide together with them and based on a careful evaluation of the data,” said the Minister of Health yesterday, Roberto Speranza. The impression explains today that the regions in question are Piedmont, Lombardy and Valle d’Aosta, which were with numbers from red two weeks ago, then from orange last week and now even from the yellow band. The “red” Calabria, which theoretically would have been yellow for two weeks, could instead always become serious on the 27th. According to the same mechanisms, Puglia and Sicily would change from orange to yellow next week. In seven days, therefore, most of the regions where the highest restrictions are currently in force could achieve the “liberation” of the red zone.
Friuli, Molise and Veneto: three regions in balance
Meanwhile, however, warns the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, there are three regions on the balance sheet because they have a moderate risk but with a high probability of going high risk in the next month. They are Friuli Venezia Giulia, which is orange today, Molise and Veneto, which currently remain in the yellow band: all three have more than a 50% probability of exceeding the critical occupancy thresholds for beds in the medical area and in intensive care. in the next 30 days if the transmissibility of the virus is maintained. For this reason, says the ISS, “it is recommended that health authorities evaluate the possible adoption of new mitigation measures.”
The one who has already moved is Lazio, which still remains in the yellow zone: President Nicola Zingaretti has signed an order that provides for the closure of commercial activities and supermarkets at 9:00 p.m. until November 30. Meanwhile, the technical table between the government and the regions has been set up, which will have to evaluate whether and how to modify the parameters that allow the allocation of the yellow, orange or red zone. A work that will last until the end of the month and that will be the basis of the measures for the Christmas period.
Finally, according to the Ansa news agency, at the moment the government has not yet taken the measures but one of the hypotheses that circulates among the technicians is that there may be two different Dpcm. One that covers the period between December 4 and the days before Christmas and with which it is convenient to relax a series of prohibitions so that the economy breathes: postponement of one or two hours of the curfew, set today at 22 , opening of stores with a wider time slot to avoid crowds, opening of shopping centers even on holidays, limited entry to shops and streets with greater influx, opening of pubs and restaurants even at night.
For travel, the rules provided by the current decree must be applied: if the regions are red or orange, therefore, they will be prohibited. The second Dpcm should instead refer specifically to Christmas and New Years and is what, according to the premier, should guarantee a “sober” Christmas, without “parties, dances, kisses and hugs”: it will contain the recommendations for dinner and should reiterate prohibition. for all the initiatives in the square, the closure of clubs and discotheques, the cessation of the sale of fireworks, the banning of parties even in private homes.
