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The restrictions The restrictions will be those already prepared in the week of Christmas, from December 24 to 27, with the prohibition of travel except to visit friends or family, in a maximum of two people (and any person under 14 years of age or disabled) and one just once a day. Always paying attention to the absolute prohibition of traveling during curfew hours, that is, after 10 pm, if it is not for proven work, health or emergency needs. With particular attention to New Year’s Eve when the curfew was extended until 7. Violators risk receiving fines that can range between 400 and 1,000 euros. A maximum of two people who do not live in the house can be accommodated, always excluding children under 14 years of age. Controls were also prepared to verify compliance with the anti-barrel and fireworks regulations, foreseen in many cities, from Bologna to Palermo, to Naples, to Rome. But the New Year’s restrictions may not be the last for Italians.
Conte: “The measures are necessary to avoid a third wave” The colored bands, as confirmed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the year-end conference, will remain, especially to avoid a potential third wave of Covid. “We just have to understand – said the prime minister – if variants, like the English one, which have a higher contagion rate, will force us to update our measures. Otherwise, the tracked band system is absolutely adequate. also for the third wave “.
Ski resorts, opening further afield In the meantime, looking ahead to January 7 – and therefore a cautious recovery – there are several activities that ask for clarity about the future. The hypothesis of the reopening of the ski resorts seems to have vanished, which, on the recommendation of the President of the Conference of the Regions, Stefano Bonaccini, could be postponed until 18 January. A decision that, in all probability, will only be made in the first ten days of the new year. However, an appeal has been made to the government from Valle d’Aosta to maintain attention in the high mountainous areas. Some regions, then, are thinking of changing the date of the winter sales, which traditionally take place in the first days of the year, in consideration of the last days of the red zone.
Vaccini, Locatelli: “Without delay” On the subject of vaccines, the president of the Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli. He explained that “at the moment there is no alarm signal about an extension of the times for the anti-Covid vaccination campaign in Italy.” La Paesea, in fact, “is trying to acquire additional doses from other platforms, but always through the European mechanism for the acquisition of vaccines,” he said.
Arcuri: “The arrival of new doses this week” To date, 9,803 Italians have been vaccinated with the doses that arrived on December 27 on “Vaccine Day”. This was announced by the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency, Domenico Arcuri. This is “more than 100% of the 9,750 doses distributed, since in some regions the sixth dose of each vial has begun to be administered.” Delivery of the 469,950 doses scheduled for this week will be completed on Thursday.
Ricciardi: “The restrictive measures remain for all of 2021” The start of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign “does not mean that our behavior will change with regard to protection against the virus: for all of 2021 the measures will remain the same as now, from physical distancing to masks and hand hygiene”. This was stated by Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza. “But with vaccines we will begin to have fewer deaths and fewer illnesses and this reassures everyone,” he added.
“Able to vaccinate 50% of Italians in the first months of 2021” Regarding vaccines, Ricciardi underlined: “At the moment we can vaccinate about half of Italians, or about 20 million, in the first 6 months of 2021.” The postponement of planned doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine “will actually be offset by more doses of Pfizer. Of the 100 million additional optional Pfizer doses by the EU, he notes, 13.4 million will go to Italy.”
Lombardy, more than 25 thousand dead Meanwhile, Lombardy registers a sad balance: the Region in fact exceeds the threshold of 25 thousand positive deaths in Covid. The last 80 people died on December 30, reaching 25,038.
Problem: “The incidence is still high, we need rigor” The budget tile also comes from the Higher Institute of Health in the weekly monitoring. The dossier highlights that “although there has been a decrease in the incidence at the national level in the last 14 days (305.47 per 100,000 inhabitants vs 329.53 per 100,000), in general it is still very high and the impact of Most of the country, and in most regions there is still a moderate or high risk of an uncontrolled and unmanageable epidemic, confirming the need to “maintain the rigor of measures during the holiday period.”
“Slightly higher rt index” In the period 8-21 December 2020, records the ISS, the average transmissibility index Rt calculated in symptomatic cases was equal to 0.93 (range 0.89 – 1.02), increasing slightly in the last three weeks.
Germany, towards the extension of the confinement In Germany, the lockdown, which expires on January 10, could be extended for another two to three weeks. Bild writes it online, giving news of the plan Angela Merkel and Laender’s presiding ministers are working on, ahead of the January 5 summit. According to these rumors, everything would remain closed until January 24 or even January 31. There is great disagreement between the regions about schools.
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