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ROME Despite the avalanche of calls to “give certainty” that fell on the Palazzo Chigi, only today and with great delay, the government will tell Italians what Christmas awaits them. The clear and now chronic division between penalty shooters and openers, the winds of crisis unleashed by Matteo Renzi, also prevented Giuseppe Conte yesterday from formalizing anti-Covid measures with a view to the Holidays.
Tonight the Dpcm
The moment of truth will come during the day, when the prime minister will once again bring together the heads of the majority delegation Dario Franceschini, Roberto Speranza, Alfonso Bonafede, Teresa Bellanova and the ministers Francesco Boccia (Regions) and Luciana Lamorgese (Interior). Then, in the afternoon, the Council of Ministers will approve the decree and the Dpcm to ensure Christmas. Unless there is another postponement.
The open questions, after the long tie on Wednesday, are the day of the Epiphany in the red zone. And above all the exemption for “a maximum of two non-cohabiting relatives”, to visit “first or second degree relatives” even outside the municipal or regional limits. Conte would like a more flexible rule: 2 people who do not live together can be accommodated at home, without specifying whether they are related or not. Certainly there is the condition that the guests are “elderly parents” or “people in a situation of fragility”.
If the formulation remained like this, it would be possible to spend Christmas or other holidays with children who do not live together, siblings, other second-degree relatives (according to Conte, even simple friends). With the limit of two people in the car during the journey.
The exception to “everything at home” would be a painful choice, given the tradition of spending Christmas with various families. According to Boccia, this option “runs the risk of opening a flaw in the infection prevention system, since it would make controls very difficult” by the police. A subject loved by Lamorgese, very perplexed by any hypothesis that the hardening is alleviated by the consequent difficulties in enforcing the restrictions in the presence of exceptions that are difficult to apply and interpret.
“Forbidden dinners”
Like Speranza and Franceschini, that is why the Minister of the Regions recommends: “No one should leave home. If someone puts forward the hypothesis of parties, dinners, meetings “between family groups”, he is very wrong. To later explain: “We must make decisions to protect the most vulnerable and the elderly and, therefore, we will have to spend Christmas each at home.” The motivation: «We must be responsible because the country is entering a more dangerous holiday cycle than Ferragosto, in which we will inevitably be shoulder to shoulder. And sadly, masks, when you are at home with family and friends, decrease and increase the risks. Instead, we must be very rigorous to thwart the third wave of the epidemic.
The grip that the government works serves precisely to avoid dinners and lunches extended to several families who do not live together and afternoons of bingo and panettone, the exchange of gifts. In short, it would be the farewell to Christmas we are used to. Especially since the repeal, he said, will not be extensive. The government, under pressure from Conte, is moving toward giving only “two relatives who do not live together” the opportunity to visit “first and second degree relatives.” The conditional is essential: “It has not been decided yet, we must meet precisely to establish the contours of this repeal”, affirm all the ministers who follow the dossier.
These restrictions and the possible repeal, which some call “save the grandparents”, for the rigorous front should be valid from December 24 to January 6 and 7 “without interruption.” On the other hand, Conte points out (and for the moment this hypothesis prevails) on the stumbling national confinement: red zone from January 24 to 3 (if not until Epiphany day as Speranza, Boccia and Franceschini ask), with only 28, 29 and December 30 with the anodyne rules of the yellow zone (even on January 4 and 5 if the repression reaches Befana). During the days of the red zone, nobody will be able to leave the house except for necessity and urgency or to go to mass. Stores and restaurants will be closed. In addition, the curfew will remain in force from 10 pm, but there will be no tightening during the next weekend, during which anti-crowd controls will be reinforced in shopping streets and shopping centers.
In the line of “maximum prudence”, the Regions have confirmed, also because Boccia has promised “safe and timely refreshments for the Christmas closings”. And the governor of the Northern League of Veneto, Luca Zaia, anticipated the government by signing an ordinance that prohibits, from Saturday, January 6, the crossing of municipal limits from two in the afternoon.
Last update: December 18 at 00:08
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