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ROME. It will be a specific exemption, which will be self-certified in the case of controls. It will allow for very limited family reunification on the days of the national red zone. An exception intended for the elderly alone or for two siblings who would otherwise spend Christmas unaccompanied. The criteria are essentially two. First: meetings between relatives who do not cohabit are allowed only for the first and second degree of kinship. Parents and children, therefore, grandparents and grandchildren, brothers. Uncles and cousins excluded. Friends excluded. Second: the exemption is allowed for a maximum of two people. Whoever is detained must respect this criterion. A child visiting a parent, for example, should not move in with more than one family member at a time. One way to make sure the host does too is to open the house to up to two non-living family members.
This approach is mandatory for penalty shooters. In fact, it is already a failure compared to the total driving ban, which they continue to insist on. They are unwilling to accept extended family reunions, as Giuseppe Conte seemed to be oriented to do. The other knot over which there is mourning is that of the days in which the red zones are fixed. As anticipated, there will be at least eight: these are holidays and pre-holidays in the period from December 24 to January 3. From December 24 to 27, from December 31 to January 3. In this, Conte was clear: it is my commitment, the best I can accept. However, Dario Franceschini, Speranza and Boccia insist. They ask for a total closure from December 24 to January 6, also accompanied by a halt to extra-municipal movements from December 21. The hope is that the prime minister will at least allow the red zone to be extended to the dates of January 5-6 (a pre-holiday, a holiday) or to include December 28-30 in the block, which will currently remain the yellow zone. With stores open, therefore, restaurants and bars operating until 6 in the afternoon, circulation is allowed within the Region.
The doubts must be resolved this morning, at a summit postponed once again yesterday by the government audit. The text will then be presented to the regions and municipalities, then it will be discussed in a council of ministers scheduled for 6 pm, and finally it will be presented to the Italians with an evening press conference. As long as the executive really has time, as he is busy chasing down the Renzianos to get his green light, while Italy awaits clear answers a few days before the holidays.
Certainly any doubt seems to collide with the numbers. The dead, yesterday, were 683. The infected 18,236. The percentage of positives with respect to the swabs performed rose again to 9.8%. Figures that are difficult to ignore, so much so that the governor of Veneto of the Northern League, Luca Zaia, independently decided to anticipate some measures, prohibiting from December 19 until Epiphany all extra-municipal trips after 2:00 p.m. del Anci Antonio Decaro asked for drastic interventions on holidays – especially on the eve of the day – very concerned about the gatherings in the city.
But there is more and worse. There is a fact that will be made public in the next few hours. And it will freeze the hopes of the starters led by the prime minister, providing arguments to penalty shooters. For the first time in a month and a half, the RT, the index that indicates the spread of the virus, will not decrease. Stopping at 0.8, it might even go backwards. To secure the hospital system in view of the third wave, it would be necessary to bring it below 0.5 instead. And all this, without having discounted the effect of the holidays yet. “We need drastic measures, for as long as possible, is the alarm that Boccia launches to the Regions, otherwise these parties run the risk of having worse effects than on August 15.”
The truth, which no one admits yet but which the entire government knows, is that the reopening of the school on January 7 – with this trend and the scene of a resurgence of contagion after the holidays – will probably last two or three weeks at most.
