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Easter 2021 will also be an armored break due to Covid-19. the new Dpcm which will enter into force on March 6, will last for one month, until April 6, and the Government does not foresee any relaxation of the current restrictions. It is also good to remember that the new decree law that expands the colored zones that divide the regions at different levels of risk, and the prohibition to move between regions until March 27, is in force as of today. Does Easter save for family reunions and a short vacation outside the region? Too early to say: a new extension of travel restrictions is not excluded due also to the progressive worsening of the pandemic situation, as the latest coronavirus bulletin also highlights.
The Dpcm with the Easter rules
The new Dpcm that the government is filing at this time will be in effect from March 6 to April 6. After the skepticism expressed by the Scientific Technical Committee about a possible reopening, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in his speeches in the Senate and in the Chamber explained that the epidemiological situation makes it impossible to relax the measures.
The truth is that the subdivision into bands will be maintained since there will be no national orange zone, but at the request of the governors it is debated whether to remodel the parameters that decide the color bands. What then changes? Very little. The executive will continue with the deliberations of the decree laws that provide a regulatory framework and Dpcm that detail the specific measures based on the epidemiological trend. The Regions hope to get the green light for night service for restaurants in the yellow zone, but it is certain that there will be no reopening of cinemas and theaters, or gyms soon. Also, if the CTS recommendations find space on the part of the political decision maker, it will be easier to enter the orange and red areas. The intention, already announced by Prime Minister Draghi, remains to improve the timing of announcements to give citizens and economic operators more time to prepare for any shutdown.
As for the holidays, it is impossible to predict whether it will be Easter (April 4) and Easter Monday (5) “in red” like last Christmas: “The evolution of the epidemiological picture – said Speranza – deserves to be followed with the utmost attention. We will have to check, step by step, if the measures are adequate to face the situation that is emerging. “
“The compass, for me, in the drafting of the next Dpcm, which will be in force from March 6 to April 6, must always be the principle of protection and safeguarding of the fundamental right to health, enshrined in our Constitution, in article 32 “.
In fact, today there is a rapid increase in the number of people infected with Sars-Cov-2 while currently positive people increase to 389,433. Of these, 2,157 are fighting for their lives in the intensive care units of Italian hospitals, 11 more than yesterday after 178 new admissions. And in some regions hospitals are under stress: seven regions that already exceeded the critical threshold of intensive care a few days ago while the Cruz mechanism is reestablished, which allows the transfer of the most serious patients in civil protection vehicles from hospitals that they have run out of places. If even today 318 deaths are recorded, unfortunately stable for days, it is worth noting the rapid increase in the contagion curve in Campania and the wall of 3 thousand infections broken in Lombardy, “the fault” in particular of the province of Brescia hit so it could be the start of the third wave.
As Minister Roberto Speranza explained in Parliament today, the latest data are worrying since the Rt index is about to exceed 1. “The presence of the variants will affect the situation as a whole. The English variant is now widely present in most of the national territory – Speranza explains – due to its higher transmission speed, of around 35-40% compared to the original strain. . This variant will soon prevail in our country, as it is already doing in other European countries ”. Fortunately, however, this variant does not compromise the efficacy of the vaccines. But two other variants, the Brazilian and the South African, are “more insidious” since they could reduce, even partially, the effectiveness of the vaccine.
The light at the end of the tunnel, however, is there: in fact, the vaccination plan may continue thanks to the arrival of millions of doses of Astrazeneca, while the results of the J&J vaccine are more than promising. “Six out of every ten deaths in our country occurred among people over eighty years of age. Vaccinating these people means securing them and saving their lives,” Speranza explained.
