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Five weeks of confinement in the Netherlands, armored Christmas in Germany, London and New York. In other places it has already been decided to close to try to stop the third wave, announced by many parties. In Italy there is still no balance on the measures to be taken to keep the virus at bay, which, although more slowly, continues its streak. The 500 daily deaths continue to be touched by Covid and the Government must evaluate whether and how to re-tighten the shirts during the Christmas holidays, especially to make the shopping gatherings that have been seen in all large cities impossible, trying to remove it. specter of the new wave in January. The decision will come in 48 hours, “tomorrow night or Wednesday,” say sources at Palazzo Chigi. The hypothesis that rebounds in the meetings of Government and technicians – in charge of preparing the proposals and aligned in the line of maximum prudence – is that of a national red zone on holidays and before holidays – in fact “.a lock for the holidays ”- from Santo Stefano’s Eve, from New Year’s Eve to New Year, only with essential services open. Or a kind of big orange zone, with open shops and closed restaurants. And with the early curfew at 18 or 20. The scheme, therefore, must be defined. And there is no shortage of divisions, protests and unknowns. Divisions in the government, protests by merchants and restaurateurs – affected by the restrictions that the new repression will bring – and unknowns about aid, the so-called refreshments, to be scheduled.
Even in today’s CTS different positions have emerged between extremists and less extremists. Distant points of view on different topics, from the period in which the restrictions were concentrated to the hypothesis of keeping restaurants open also in the orange zone, which would thus become “enhanced orange”. However, the synthesis was not reached and, after more than three hours of discussion, the technicians decided to update tomorrow morning.
“The battle is not won”, “the figures are still very significant” and “little is needed to frustrate the efforts”, repeated tonight the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. In four words: you need to tighten more. It will become official in the next few days – “not before Thursday,” say Palazzo Chigi sources – and could take the form of a new national blockade, a “holiday blockade”, limited to the period that includes, day plus day, between December 23 and January 6. The Scientific Technical Committee, to which Prime Minister Conte and the heads of delegation, at the end of a summit this morning at Palazzo Chigi, entrusted the task of drawing up the proposals, discussed them at a meeting this afternoon. More than three hours of debate on the two hypotheses on the ground: transforming Italy into orange zone or in zona rossa.
If the first scenario prevails, bars and restaurants will be closed, movements will be limited but shops will be open. The color orange would also lead to the extension of the ban on leaving your municipality.
In the case of a “red” area, however, non-essential movements outside the home would be prohibited. As in spring, the closure of stores and the prohibition of non-essential movements outside the home would be activated, if it were not for emergencies, needs and health and with self-certification in hand, leaving a little flexibility for Christmas, at less to guarantee participation in religious rites.
Speranza – among the most rigorous of the government together with the ministers of Francesco Boccia and Dario Franceschini – was clear about it. “The new measures – he said – can help us, especially in the weeks of the Christmas holidays, to avoid a third wave”, to avoid “a new rebound”. Attention focused on the two weeks of the Christmas holidays, “the most complicated period, in which the pace of travel and relationships increases a lot, and we will have to stay longer.” beware”Speranza explained. The goal is to “cool down” the contagion curve, because the pressure on hospitals remains high and the third wave, unmanageable with intensive care units still under stress, should be avoided as much as possible. Not to mention the risk that not working now to lower the curve could also thwart the vaccination campaign that will begin in mid-January.
The hypothesis of a generalized closure would also render meaningless the debate on movements in small towns and within a certain number of kilometers, which, if it were decided to transform Italy into a large orange zone, could be the only one humiliation.
This is the issue at the center of debate and friction also in the Pd between the most penalty shooters like Franceschini and the fewest penalty shooters like Andrea Marcucci. In the afternoon, the Pd y Autonomie filed a motion in the Senate on the displacement between smaller municipalities, that is, those with less than 10,000 inhabitants, in superfiestas to hire the government “Promptly adopt the necessary initiatives to allow the closest loved ones to meet on December 25 and 26 and January 1, 2021, providing for the possibility of moving between municipalities” to avoid the provisions of the Dpmc of December 3 Generate “unequal treatment among residents of small, medium and large municipalities.”
The national red zone on holidays and days before holidays, however, does not find everyone in agreement in the Government and in the majority. And then there is the issue of soft drinks: the closure of stores, bars and restaurants would lead managers to ask for more financial support. But the need for hardening, explained by the CTS, is linked to the impossibility, on the one hand, of a capillary control of the territory and, on the other, to data from the epidemic, as has been commented, still “worrying”. Restaurateurs and merchants have already made themselves heard, but their SOS runs the risk of falling on deaf ears. Without a doubt, it opens another question in this regard. The sodas are needed, but the money is gone. A “skeptic” Teresa Bellanova drew attention to the issue during the meeting with Conte, head of delegation and Cts. “Other restrictions should already provide for a suitable snack – said the minister of Italy viva – If they also involve restaurants, an eventuality about which I remain enormously skeptical becauseTheir the risk is uncontrolled overcrowding in the homes, now it is necessary to provide a snack equivalent to 100 percent of the losses ”. But there is no money, soda boxes are empty at the moment. Of course, the problem could be solved by putting them in payment in 2021, but the knot remains tight. While, with the virus in motion, the new repression becomes more and more necessary.
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