Block between November 5 and December 3, 2020

From midnight tonight, or rather from Thursday, November 5, 2020, and until the end of December 3, Piedmont becomes the red zone and therefore the blockade comes into force, which will nevertheless be lighter than that applied in spring. The Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, signed the decree that provides for the application of stronger restrictions.

The latest disastrous data on infections and hospital admissions, together with data on the Rt infection index, which is the first in Italy, with a coefficient of 2.16, convinced the government to block the entire region, with the exception of the activities considered essential. You will return to the need for self-certification to move from home (it will be necessary to prove that the departure is due to work, health or urgent needs, including accompanying your children to school where it is still open) and it is prohibited, always except in In the same cases, move outside the municipal limits. In public transport there is a maximum access fee equal to 50% of the capacity. The factories remain open. From 10 to 5 in the morning there will be a national curfew.

Catering

Bars, pubs, restaurants, ice cream parlors and patisseries closed, although they may work for take away food service (with absolute prohibition of consumption in the vicinity of the restaurant) until 10 pm and home delivery. In any case, the food and beverage outlets located in the service and refueling areas of the highways, hospitals and airports, remain open.

Shops and services

All stores considered not essential remain closed, except for the sale of food and essential items, kiosks, tobacconists, pharmacies and parapharmacies. Estheticians are also closed, but not hairdressers and barbers.

School

Regarding the school, face-to-face teaching will be guaranteed exclusively for children up to sixth grade. From the second, on the other hand, 100% of distance training will be mandatory, with the exception of workshops, which must be guaranteed in person.

Sport

Individual and contact sports are suspended (including competitions, with the exception of professionals), as well as gyms, swimming pools, wellness centers, spas and ski resorts. Motor activity is allowed only individually, near the house and with the obligation of a mask. A more cryptic passage is the one that says that outdoor sports activities are allowed on an individual basis.

Cirio: “Immediate measures for the affected activities”

“If more sacrifices are requested from the business world – says the president of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio – we hope that they will be conditioned to the implementation of these immediate measures by the government. First of all, I ask for the total tax exemption for what remains to be paid in 2020 and for all of 2021 for the activities affected by the new decree, and that this be simultaneously reflected in law. Given the times of the state bureaucracy, I also ask that soft drinks have certain endowments and delivery times. I have given the availability as a Piedmont Region to directly manage the funds made available by the State, thanks to the experience of more than 130 million euros of compensation paid to the checking accounts of more than 70 thousand Piedmont companies in less than a month , resources that I also know. they are the only ones that reach the pockets of our commercial companies. Finally, I ask that the authorization of parental leave be expressly provided for, both for salaried employees and for the self-employed, of which, incredibly, there is currently no trace in the decree. In addition, in implementation of the possibility offered to regional councils to propose national legislative initiatives, tomorrow I will present a bill that imposes extraordinary taxation on international online sales platforms during the validity of the new government measures, planning to allocate all proceeds to small neighborhood businesses. “