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ROME. The Christmas decree arrives: Italy will be red for all holidays and days before holidays to La Befana, with closed shops, bars and restaurants and the prohibition to leave the house except for work and health reasons.
From Christmas Eve Italy will be in Red zone. And it will stay there up to 27 and then again as of December 31 to January 3 me from January 5 to 6. Ten days throughout.
the December 28, 29 and 30 and the January 4th the country instead will be all in orange zone: you will be able to move freely within the municipalities and the shops will be open. For bars and restaurants, on the other hand, the January 7th.
“A difficult decision that will allow us to resume all activities in January,” said the prime minister. Giuseppe Conte live on television, from 21:50.
After days of discussions, the government launches the new push to prevent Christmas lunches and dinners from triggering a third wave in January and February.
In the decree, Conte announced, they also established 645 million soft drinks in favor of restaurants me Pub they are forced to close.
«The reproducibility index of the virus has risen again – warns the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza – and, therefore, it is necessary, to stop the increase in infections, have the red zone “.
The measures are contained in a decree-law of only 3 articles that the Council of Ministers approved after a long discussion within the government and with the Regions.
A discussion that with the approach of the holidays has become increasingly tense: the intolerance of the opposition that asked the executive to make clear and quick decisions to give certainty to Italians as soon as possible, was added that of the majority, as did. clearly understand the leader of the Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti when he announced that, in case the prime minister did not go the hard line, Lazio would go on their own.
«We need to ensure Christmas, the yellow zone is no longer enough, it is useless to circumvent the problem. We risk January and February becoming dramatic.
The umpteenth meeting of the heads of delegation was very tense, four hours of discussion during which Teresa Bellanova He clearly stated that if another decree is needed “it means that what has been decided so far has not worked as it should” and asked for a 100% snack. And the CDM has immediately assigned 400 million for bars and restaurants forced to close: more resources will arrive in 2021.
In the end, the line of penalty shooters was imposed, the one represented since the beginning of the emergency by the ministers Roberto Speranza, Dario Franceschini me Francesco Boccia, also confirmed today by the latter to the Regions. “This is one of the darkest winters our country remembers, let’s stick together,” but “restrictive measures have always been right.”
The only thing that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who was with Italia Viva for a much softer intervention, managed to mark is the repeal for two diners who do not live together, in addition to children under 14 years of age, who may travel even with bans on reaching relatives and closest relatives in private homes. But they will be able to do it “once a day” and “to a single house”, obviously in the same region.
In the provision is also the repeal for small municipalities: can pass from those below the 5,000 inhabitants, but one maximum distance of 30 kilometers and in any case not to go to the provincial capitals. With the exception of Campania, if Vincenzo De Luca will keep what he promised by announcing an order to prohibit any movement.
And on the other hand, the weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health left no room for maneuver. “The increased mobility and interpersonal interaction typical of sociability this season could determine a significant increase in transmission” of the virus, with a “consequent rapid increase in cases.”
Before closing everything, however, Italy will be all yellow, at least for a day: on Saturday the last ordinances of Hope expire that kept Campania, Tuscany, Valle d’Aosta and the province of Bolzano in the orange zone and, for Therefore, as of Sunday, the regulations currently in force in the rest of the country will also apply in those territories.
From Monday for 3 days the measurements for the yellow zones will be valid, aExcept for the possibility of displacement between regions, which will be suspended as provided by the Dpcm of December 3.
During the meeting with the government, the majority of regional presidents did not challenge the measures. Some criticized the lack of clarity, but most were in favor of tightening. Luca zaia He had anticipated them with an ordinance, prohibiting mobility between the Veneto municipalities as of today from 2:00 p.m., while the president of Emilia and of the Conference of the Regions Stefano Bonaccini had already announced in the morning which was the line of the governors: red zone “Alterna”, the one that soon happened. The only one who expressed his opposition clearly was Giovanni Toti. “The government must take into account all the numbers of the pandemic. The Christmas closings could cost Liguria 200 million ”. But he too, in the end, adapted to Christmas in red. No dinners and no party.
