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Giuseppe Conte’s government is evaluating a new Dpcm that transforms the whole of Italy into a red or orange zone from Christmas 2020 until the New Year 2021 or perhaps even until January 7. The new tightening, anticipated yesterday while the movements between the municipalities were being discussed and which could instead be “stumbling”, was announced yesterday during the meeting of the Head of Delegation after the numbers of the latest Civil Protection bulletins certified the slowdown of the descent; In addition, the images of gatherings in the commercial streets of the big cities frighten. And there are also those who directly raise the hypothesis of a hard blockade at Christmas.
A new Dpcm for Italy in the red or orange zone from Christmas to New Year?
Today for the point of the situation we will see the heads of delegation of the majority with the experts of the Scientific Technical Committee and the ministers Luciana Lamorgese (internal), Francesco Boccia (Regional Affairs) and Alfonso Bonafede (Justice). There are three scenarios on the government table: take Italy to the red or orange zone for eight days from December 24 to January 1, or on holidays and days before holidays (December 24 to 27, December 31 to January 2 and from January 5 to 7, or directly from December 24 to January 7). And the tool for the Christmas mini-closure, the Ansa news agency wrote yesterday, will be a new ministerial decree that at the same time could also incorporate the famous exemption to travel in small municipalities with less than 5,000 or 15,000 inhabitants territorially. On the executive table there are:
- interventions to curb concentrations on shopping streets and in the centers of large cities through increased controls;
- early closures of business establishments;
- the curfew reinforced with the restriction of bars and restaurants, and restrictions on travel between regions (which will be discontinued as of 21 as a result of the Dpcm of December 3) and within territories.
As a whole, the government should allow municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants to have a mileage limit (we are talking about 20 or 30 kilometers) through a majority motion that would be discussed and approved on Wednesday in the Senate, repealing the one in the center -Right that instead intends to blow up the blockade to all municipalities. Therefore, the option of allowing the possibility of moving on December 25, 26 and January 1 outside the municipal term is taken for granted, to those who live in the smallest.
The objective – explains a government source to the Agi news agency – is to apply Merkel’s model, which has evoked a harsh blockade by introducing stricter anti-Covid measures in force since December 16. Above all, Ministers Boccia and Franceschini, but also Prime Minister Conte and the other political forces of the majority are in the strict line. The possibility of extending the measures now applied for the red and orange areas also to the yellow regions on critical days in Merkel’s model would therefore lead to a compression first in the stores and then in the freedom of movement to avoid the risk of the third wave that yesterday was foreshadowed by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità after the holidays.
Italy red zone from Christmas: closing until New Year’s Eve or Befana
the Corriere della Sera announces today that Conte intends to launch an appeal on Facebook before the launch of the new measures. And he announces that this morning it will be up to the CTS to delineate the different scenarios and then suggest the appropriate remedies to prevent what happens during the holidays from causing the epidemiological curve to rise again. Also taking into account the reopening of schools scheduled for January 7 (and that could be postponed, although the government today cannot afford a setback at this point). The newspaper explains that the prefects will identify the places where traffic will have to be blocked:
The real danger comes from the crowds on shopping streets and in historic centers, where bars and restaurants can stay open until 6 pm The pressure will be strong in commercial establishments and public places. The hypothesis is a modification of the current Dpcm that now provides for its opening for holidays. We go back, we think about the lockout.
Today it will be decided whether to implement the measure on December 19 and 20 – as the rigorous wing of the government would like – or if instead it will be postponed around Christmas. “The problem is that on January 7 everything must be reopened, starting with the schools – explains a minister a The impression – and we cannot risk not doing it because someone wants to go shopping or exchange Christmas presents. “The Turin newspaper describes three hypotheses for the closing of holidays:
- Speranza’s hard line provides for the closure of all stores except those that sell basic necessities, allowing exceptions to travel to lunch with family members;
- in a softer version, the stricter restrictions would apply from December 24 to January 2;
- the third option foresees the variant of the orange zone, which would prohibit movement between municipalities but would leave the stores open.
Also according to the newspaper, it is estimated that the movement block will advance to 19, but many people have already booked trains and planes to reach friends and family. Possible also the anticipation of the curfew from 22 to 20 or even to 18. Second Republic Estimates, in the absence of a tightening greater than that already foreseen, foresee a peak in deaths at the end of January up to two times higher than that already achieved.
Mini-lockdown: the hypothesis of a “stumbling” closure between Christmas and Befana
The messenger On the other hand, it explains that the new restrictive measures that could be, in the areas with the lowest contagion rate, of the “orange” type: open stores, closed restaurants, prohibition of crossing the borders of the municipality.
The squeeze could be stumbling: it will start next Saturday and Sunday, it will resume from December 24 to 27; start over from December 31 to January 2 and January 5 to 6. As long as, as suggested by the CTS, you do not decide for a longer period: from next Saturday to January 10.
The newspaper also states that the decision to turn around was an emergency summit convened last night by Giuseppe Conte, with the heads of delegation Dario Franceschini, Roberto Speranza, Alfonso Bonafede, Teresa Bellanova and the ministers Francesco Boccia and Federico D’Incà. A kind of war cabinet opened by alarmed reports from Franceschini (Culture), Speranza (Health) and Boccia (Regions).
In an interview with Corriere della Sera Minister Boccia already foreshadows the government’s intentions on the squeeze: “We have to tell ourselves thoroughly if the Christmas break should serve to secure the country or if it should be guided only by the desire to favor business. At this time, business and the health are not only reconcilable. And I have the greatest respect for those who have the weight of economic activities on their shoulders. We must take it in our heads that when there is an epidemic and there are no drugs, we must avoid traveling. I do not say that, but ” From the Democratic Party, as Zingaretti reiterated, we want more restrictive measures, in addition to openness. Regarding the economy, the government has allocated billions of the biggest plan since the postwar period. “While the president of the Gimbe Foundation Nino Cartabellotta has a modest proposal like Jonathan Swift: “We should have a lockdown during the Christmas holidays like Germany, but Italians would make a revolution. Unfortunately we are not prepared for such harsh measures, but we need a rigorous plan to reduce contacts and prevent the third wave. it is grafted directly into the second. Entrusting everything to individual responsibility is a risk we cannot face. We pay for months of hardship and people are eager to get out. I know it is unpopular to say so, but this is not the time: we run the risk of a storm perfect “.
