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Will it be possible to move between regions? Will it be possible to spend the holidays with the family? With what relatives? And how many? Too many questions waiting for Christmas and still few answers, or better yet confused. One thing, for now, seems certain: there will be no bingo, dinners and parties with too many people, the houses will not have to be filled. Meanwhile, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza signed a new ordinance renewing the restrictive measures relating to the autonomous province of Bolzano which remains red and the Regions of Basilicata, Liguria and Umbria (orange). The ordinance is valid until December 3, 2020, without prejudice to the possibility of a new classification provided for by the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of November 3, 2020.
The riddle of zones at Christmas
By December 10, all the red areas should turn orange, some of the oranges should turn yellow. The idea is to envisage a “reinforced” yellow zone with a new dpcm that the executive will try to launch over the weekend and that will allow only residents domiciled elsewhere to travel even between yellow regions. The special recipients of this rule must be close relatives. All hypotheses at the moment. Meanwhile, we believe, we are watching the epidemiological curve to avoid a third wave of post-Christmas infections.
Family reunification
Exactly one month to Christmas. Thirty days go by quickly and the issues to be decided are still different. One of the first objectives of the government would be to reunite only close relatives, that is, Fathers and sons, husbands and wives and partners who live together still resides in the regions of origin but domiciled elsewhere. Unless the government decides to be even more rigid and prohibit any type of movement even for residents. “We are working on moving between regions at Christmas, but if we continue like this we will no longer have red zones at the end of the month. However, the Christmas period requires ad hoc measures,” the Prime Minister explained yesterday on TV. Certainly, this year panettone and nougat cannot be shared with the whole family. It will not be possible to reconnect with uncles, cousins and more distant relatives: it will be necessary to reduce the seats at the table to a maximum of six people and have common sense not to ruin the sacrifices made so far. Or better yet, to “avoid repeating the mistakes made in August”, as repeated by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Minister for Regional Affairs Francesco Boccia, also underlining the sad fact that with “600 deaths a day it is out of place talk dinners “.
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by Valeria Forgnone
Movements between regions
At the moment, the red and orange regions cannot be reached except for special reasons, such as work, health, or proven needs. In these areas, in fact, self-certification is still necessary to get around. However, it is not prohibited to return to your place of residence or domicile. And this could thus favor the family reunification of those who are far from home.
Snow holidays are prohibited
There is no holiday in the snow. Conte was categorical: “The lifts will not reopen”, despite pressure from the Alpine regions that have signed a protocol with the guidelines on the prevention of Covid contagion to be prepared for the safe use of the lifts during the season of winter. And now, with the announced ski stop for Christmas, Italian ski lift operators fear they will burn 70 percent of their winter season turnover. The National Association of Cable Car Operators (Anef) that brings together 1,500 lifts in Italy to raise the alarm: “Christmas weighs a third of the season – explains Valeria Ghezzi, president of Anef – but this year, given the situation, considering that there will be foreigners and that Italians will travel less, in any case skipping Christmas and opening even in mid-January would mean losing 70 percent of the season, assuming we manage to open ”.
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Curfew
An exception could also be made at the time of the evening “curfew”, from 10 pm to 11 pm, except on Christmas Eve and the night of December 31, when you could return home at 1 am All hypotheses being considering.
Store hours
We try to encourage Christmas shopping and meet the merchants, penalized in this last period especially those in the red zone and those who are inside closed shopping centers throughout Italy on weekends. Not to mention the restaurants, bars and pubs. Yesterday Conte pointed out: “We must allow the tradition of gifts much loved by us. It is counterproductive to limit the Schedule some stores. We will try to allow the opening until Schedule that allow us to avoid gatherings. “We are therefore thinking of an extension of the opening hours, perhaps until 9:00 p.m. and strictly with free tickets as well as in the main squares of large cities. It is also contemplated to reopen the shopping centers the weekends and holidays, while the night-time opening of pubs and restaurants remains doubtful.
