Orange zone January 9 and 10, shopping and travel rules

Published on: 01/09/2021 12:03 AM

Orange zone today and tomorrow: stricter rules and measures throughout Italy for trips, bars, restaurants on the weekend of January 9 and 10 according to the new Covid decree. After two days in the yellow zone, here’s the grip for the weekend. As is already established practice, the curfew begins at 10 p.m. and lasts until 5 a.m. If it is not for reasons of work, necessity and health, it is prohibited to travel outside the municipality and between regions. “In any case, trips from municipalities with a population of up to 5,000 inhabitants, within 30 kilometers of their borders, will be allowed on the same days, with the exception of trips to provincial capitals”, the decree establishes. Bars and restaurants should be limited to take out and home delivery, closing for shopping centers. Food stores, pharmacies, parapharmacies, tobacconists and kiosks remain open, even within the same shopping centers.

The weekend in the orange zone is a prologue for 5 regions. Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Sicily and Veneto will not change color on Monday, as established by order of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza that will take effect tomorrow. “We must maintain the highest level of attention because the virus circulates a lot and the contagion rate is growing,” the minister tweeted announcing the signature. The ordinance, signed on a day characterized by 17,533 infections and 620 deaths, is the result of the analysis performed on the weekly monitoring data of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss) – Ministry of Health, corresponding to the period December 28, 2020 – 3 January 2021: “Calabria, Emilia Romagna and Lombardy” have “a punctual Rt significantly higher than 1, another 6 exceed it in the average value (Liguria, Molise, Sardinia, Sicily, Umbria, Valle d’Aosta), another 4 have a equal value, Puglia, or close to it, Lazio, Piedmont, Veneto “. Finally, Veneto “shows a particularly high incidence rate, compared to the national context.” Between December 15 and 28, the document states, “the mean Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was equal to 1.03, four more weeks and, for the first time, six weeks higher than one.” The report “shows a general worsening of the epidemiological situation in the country. The national incidence at 14 days increases again after a few weeks of decline, the impact of the pandemic on social services also increases and this translates into a generalized increase in risk. “.” There is a worsening of the general epidemiological situation in the country and the impact on social services is increasing. This scenario implies the utmost caution, “said Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Iss). The data, according to the report, shows that the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy” is in a delicate phase that seems to presage a new and rapid increase in the number of cases in the coming weeks, if measures are not strictly defined and implemented. “stricter mitigation”.