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Christmas 2020 will start earlier than usual and will be full of rules: the first date to be marked on the calendar is December 3, or the day on which the Prime Minister’s Decree (Dpcm) must be renewed that expires and they will arrive the rules. and recommendations for shopping, dinners and family. It will be a “more sober Christmas, dances, celebrations, kisses and hugs will not be possible,” Giuseppe Conte said in recent days, anticipating the government’s intentions. However, it is intended to help trade while trying to safeguard health.
New Dpcm Christmas 2020: the rules to move between regions and municipalities
Therefore, it is most likely a two-phase Christmas, with a Dpcm for December 3 that, in the presence of an Italy that for that day should be all yellow (with some orange and red spots here and there) because in the meantime the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic will have begun its slow decline. Then another Ministerial Decree will arrive near the holidays that will bring a new squeeze to prevent dinners and parties from giving force to the third wave, pending the arrival of the vaccine scheduled for the end of January.
On the table is still the issue of travel, which could still be prohibited in the red and orange areas. The curfew would be moved to 11pm or midnight, while on the 24th and 31st the possibility of extending it until 1am is contemplated. With a novelty: it can be moved to second homes. Everything can be done if the coronavirus epidemic has begun its decline and yesterday a signal arrived: the Civil Protection bulletin reported 34,767 new cases, or 2,474 less than the previous day with a similar number of swabs, and only 10 admissions to intensive care, while the relationship between positives and smears drops significantly, to 14.6%. According to government calculations, the data will be consolidated before the Regions change color: after November 27, Lombardy and Piedmont should turn orange. Between December 17 and 24, then, a decision will be made based on the data whether less rigid measures can remain or a further tightening will be necessary.
The rules for shopping, restaurants and shops.
With this in mind, we think about the rules for shopping, dining, and travel. The most under the lens are precisely the movements between municipal and regional borders:
- to avoid dangerous encounters today that the contagion mainly follows the family route, the government thinks of prohibiting the crossing of the municipal limits;
- The executive also plans to advance, in a second phase and with exceptions on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, the curfew at 20 or 21;
- to encourage Christmas shopping, stores will be able to remain open in the first phase with a longer schedule (until 10 pm), to avoid crowds, with restricted entry by age groups;
- there will also be a night opening for restaurants and pubs;
Around Christmas, the repression will arrive, with an early curfew and a brake on mobility between municipalities. And the rules for dinner? “This Christmas we must make the effort to really be as few as possible: it is not the number itself but the more circle of people who do not usually frequent, the greater the risk,” explained yesterday the Undersecretary of Health Sandra Zampa, guest of Lilli Gruber at Otto e Mezzo at La7. “I suppose you can say five, six people at most among the most beloved affections but it is obvious that it will not be possible to control, so everyone will be asked to limit the people who come together to the maximum. There are 40 days until Christmas and at this moment the epidemiological data tell us that we cannot move between regions, but we hope that the numbers will improve and that therefore exceptions are possible ”. “On New Year’s Eve there will be no gatherings in the square and parties as in past years, even those days will be properly regulated. As a government we must have a very strict attitude and, unlike this summer, there will be no exceptions because we cannot imagine a third wave. “, He concluded.
I will explain how to get around the Dpcm bans (even in the red zones) ”. But…
Recommendations on how to prepare the table for dinner and Veglione
The Christmas Squeeze Dpcm will also bring with it rules, or more likely recommendations, regarding dinner and the party. The government will impose or require citizens to avoid gatherings with more than six people and to limit invitations from friends and family who do not live together as much as possible. Giuseppe Ippolito, Scientific Director of Spallanzani and member of the CTS, talks about it today in an interview with Corriere della Sera where, however, it should be noted that these are tips: “A safe way is to meet at home and limit the guest list to the closest relatives. With the increase in the number of people, especially if they do not live together, the risk of entering contact with the virus. Traveling from one part of the country to reach friends and family is not a good option. We must not lose the results obtained. “And for dinner and Veglione?” The possibilities of applying distancing measures in a family gathering -one meter between each diner at the table- depend on the size of the house, the availability of space, the capacity of individuals, adults and children, to avoid spills. of the mask is a fundamental part of the control measures Recent data, published on November 10, shows that wearing it protects from coronavirus not only those around us, but also those who wear it. Hence, the rule of 6, so far valid for restaurants, can also be It is valid for dinners and parties.
A minister in conversation with the messenger Instead, he says that if you want to extend the party to friends and family, then the idea of doing a quick swab before the gathering is valid. A technical note made by the Higher Institute of Health, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Fnomceo (National Federation of Medical Orders) and Inail, and online since yesterday on the ISS website, explained what the rules will be. for doctors and pediatricians. Among the main recommendations, we ask:
- show a notice at the entrance of the study with clear instructions on how to access, establishing strict entry, waiting and exit routes and specifying the days and hours when the rapid antigen test is expected, and only by appointment;
- use a dedicated room, with good ventilation and without passage;
- swabs preferably at the end of routine activities to avoid contact between subjects with possible Sars-CoV-2 infection and those entering the study for other reasons;
- disinfect surfaces between collections and avoid any form of patient gathering.
For La Stampa, on the other hand, the new Dpcm will arrive on December 4 and the intention will be to relax the rules for the regions that are in the yellow zone: stores could be allowed to open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. (to avoid crowds during peak hours ), shopping centers can remain open on weekends, restaurants and pubs at night, with the curfew postponed from 10 p.m. to midnight. Around the last ten days of the year another Dpcm will be released to regulate dinners at home, prohibit parties in the square and even the sale of fireworks
The quick buffer for Christmas dinner and decisions on the red zones and ski lifts.
And while planning the reopening of schools after the Befana, Corriere della Sera writes that mobility between regions is one of the most discussed aspects. Giving family members a chance to get together again at Christmas automatically means increasing travel and circulation of the virus. The newspaper writes that the government is studying a regulation that identifies some specific situations without leaving free mobility: areas where the number of infections with red zones and travel prohibitions is greater could be closed. This was discussed during the last Control Room: “It reaffirms – it is written in the minutes – the centrality of the regional evaluation in the risk classification at the subregional level and the stricter decline in mitigation interventions at the provincial and local levels” .
The Conference of the Regions, writes the newspaper, has drawn up a plan that must be evaluated by the Scientific Technical Committee to request the reopening of the lifts with a capacity of 50% of the cable cars, sale of passes online and mandatory mask. on board. But within the government for the moment it is excluded from being able to grant the reopening of the ski slopes. Meanwhile, the Journal writes that it will also be possible to move to second homes, but the rules will still apply: “In the house by the sea or in the mountains, one must behave as in a town house”, says Vittorio de Micheli, epidemiologist, medical director of the Milan ATS. member of the control room – that’s not for seeing friends, not for dinner. You can enjoy nature, walk and stay with the family. ”
