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As of December 31, you will return to the red zone: as required by the Christmas decree, the rules of the high-risk range apply in all regions. In the red zone, it is forbidden to move even within the municipality itself except for work, health or extreme necessity and urgency. All stores are closed except grocery stores, pharmacies and drugstores. Kiosks, tobacconists and personal service activities such as barbers and hairdressers also remain open (but beauty centers are closed).
New Year’s Eve checks on trips and cars with more than two people
The Ministry of the Interior has ordered specific controls police force for New Years Eve. Special attention will be paid to movements – according to the provisions of the last Dpcm, unnecessary ones are prohibited – and to the presence of more than two people on board in the cars. According to the first rumors gathered, the checks will focus on verifying reports of meetings in unauthorized private places, activities of premises apparently closed but open to private parties, in villas or in bed & breakfasts rented for the occasion, as well as the explosion of fires. Fireworks.
Therefore, there will be controls and as always in the viewer there are especially those who decide to move by car. Let’s briefly look at the things you need to know to travel. In private cars, unless traveling with people who live together, the passenger must first avoid occupying the available seat next to the driver. And in the rear seats there can be a maximum of two passengers, equipped with a mask. The obligation to wear protective equipment also applies to the driver. This was established by the Dpcm of December 3, 2020. The use of the mask is not mandatory only if the car is equipped with a suitable partition between the rows of seats.
How many people can travel in the same car?
On this point the government has clarified in the Faq (frequent questions) to the Dpcm of November 3. The rules have not changed. Is it possible to use the car with people who do not live together? The answer is yes, as long as – we read – certain safety measures are respected “, that is, with the presence only of the driver in the front of the car and a maximum of two passengers for each additional row of rear seats, with the obligation for all passengers The obligation to wear the mask can be waived only in the case that the car is equipped with a physical separator (plexiglass) between the front and rear row of the car, allowing in this case the presence only of the driver in the front row and a single passenger for the rear row. ”
The decree, however, establishes a derogation for people who live in the same housing unit, “as well as between relatives and people who have stable interpersonal relationships.” But beware because the Dpcm itself establishes a valid exception precisely for people who live together and who therefore do not have to comply with the provisions listed above. That is, you can travel occupying all available seats without wearing a mask.
We must not lower our guard because, as experts and scientists explain, the risk of a third wave is always just around the corner. And the New Year is likely to “remain more dangerous than christmasSo on Twitter Giacomo Gorini, an Italian immunologist working at the Jenner Institute of the University of Oxford, who is experimenting with the anti-covid vaccine developed with Pomezia’s Irbm and produced by AstraZeneca. “At Christmas we met people who until then. time when they had gone through their normal routine. On New Year’s Eve – warns Gorini, a student of Roberto Burioni – the people who met were mixed with family and friends 6 days before. Caution”.
Exceptions to travel on days in the red zone
Even on days when the red zone is in effect, it will be possible to use the derogation to travel and visit friends and family (as happened at Christmas, for up to two people). On the orange and red days – essentially until January 6 – it will be possible to take the car to go shopping to another municipality – but only in certain cases – or to visit friends and family who live in a municipality of the same region (in this case there should be no more than 2, but those under 14 are not counted). Even those who live in a municipality of up to 5,000 inhabitants can move freely as long as the movement takes place within a 30-kilometer radius, even in another region, with the explicit prohibition of traveling to the provincial capital.
Fines increased to a third if …
And the movements between regions? In this case, in addition to the reasons for work, health or need, the reason for returning home or residence is still valid. Only on January 6 will there be a green light to travel to the yellow zone regions. Finally, the fines: not everyone knows that the applicable penalty, from 400 to 1,000 euros, can be “possibly increased up to a third if the offense is caused by the use of a vehicle.” One more reason to respect the rules.
