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Everyone home at 10pm, even on December 24th. We are moving towards the confirmation of the nightly closure and, consequently, the early closure of the facilities at 6 pm In addition, restaurants must remain closed all day on Christmas and San Esteban. These are the key points of the new Dpcm, scheduled for Wednesday. However, we plan on a one-week window prior to Christmas to facilitate gift shopping. Stores would be allowed to extend their opening hours until 9 p.m. “It is just a hypothesis, we have not decided yet,” said Health Minister Roberto Speranza. As is a hypothesis, although more risky, the green light for the opening of shopping centers the weekend before Christmas.
In short, we can dedicate ourselves to Christmas shopping, but we will have to stop traveling. In fact, it will be prohibited to move between regions, regardless of the color band. So even with an all or almost yellow Italy, in a couple of weeks, movements beyond regional borders will be limited to the usual reasons of health, work or specific needs. This is to avoid repeating the script from August, when millions of Italians went on vacation. According to many scientists, in those days the conditions were created for the second wave of the epidemic.
A question of borders
Therefore, it will be possible to reach second homes, perhaps to spend the holiday period there, only if they are within their own region. Actually, the government is debating the possibility of adding a new derogation to encourage family reunification: another point about self-certification to visit elderly parents or grandparent who was left alone. “There are still no clear indications, I still hope that the families will be allowed to reunite,” said the Undersecretary of Health, Sandra Zampa, to the microphones of Came back, in La7.
The most rigorous wing of the majority fears, however, that an excessive and dangerous movement will be created: for example, the son who goes to visit his parents obviously takes his wife and children. Multiplied by tens of thousands of families. Therefore, it is thought to limit the right to return home for Christmas only to those who have a residence in another region.
The paradox of this new architecture of rules is that from Lombardy you cannot go, for example, to Piedmont, but you can go skiing in Switzerland. Same opportunity for the Piedmontese, or for the inhabitants of Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia-Giulia headed to the slopes of Austria. At the moment, the government is not thinking of closing national borders. And whoever decides to cross them could have the only annoyance that of having to present a negative buffer upon their return, although it is supposed to be imposed regardless of the usual two weeks of quarantine.
Schools and churches
For fans of the white week who cannot or do not want to leave the country, the season in Italy will begin in January, a date to be defined but surely after the Epiphany, to avoid the risk of gatherings on the ski lifts and slopes during the holidays. The same horizon for high school students, whose return to classes cannot occur before January 7. The hypothesis of a resumption of teaching in presence before the Christmas break has collapsed due to the doubts of some ministers and the open opposition of almost all the Presidents of the Regions.
Lessons still at a distance therefore, while the Mass on Christmas Eve will be present but anticipated, the time necessary for the faithful to return home at 10 pm. The bishops have already shown their availability: “It is the desire of the Episcopal Conference to continue the valid collaboration, listening to us, with the government,” said the director of the CEI’s National Office for Social Communications, Vincenzo Corrado. At Christmas, first in the mass and then dinner.
