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The new grip is expected, apparently, for Christmas. In the days when there is talk of increasing travel freedom, at least for December 25 and 26 and between small municipalities, the government met urgently for a new point on the spread of the coronavirus infection on the possibility of further tightening the measures to contain it.
On Sunday night, most gathered to discuss what was organized across Italy on the second weekend in December: shopping streets taken by storm and unavoidable gatherings. And if on the one hand it is intended to open to movements between municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants (which with the block scheduled for Christmas, San Boxeo and New Year’s Eve could be isolated), on the other hand one more squeeze against “unbearable gatherings. ”, As defined by the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri.
In the last hours, thanks to the meeting on Sunday, rumors and hypotheses have started to rebound. Most report a new Christmas-only squeeze, with Italy indeed in the red zone on holidays and the day before holidays, especially since after a few days of plateau and timid decline, infections have started to increase everywhere. parts, along with the dead. And the fact that in Germany Chancellor Merkel has already announced a comprehensive closure as of December 16 precisely with a view to lunches and dinners seems to have provoked a new reflection, especially in the face of the aforementioned third wave.
Sunday was, on the other hand, focused on two main themes: on the one hand the shopping gatherings, on the other the vaccination campaign characterized by a primrose that should begin in the first months of 2021. The fear that a third party The wave it hits even harder than the first two because of the excess of freedom in the Christmas period that is still high, and the next two weeks will be decisive.
The need to control movements and gatherings collides with the gift-hunting period, the desire to leave after months of restrictions, and the desire to gather around the table for lunches and dinners. And the scenario, for the holidays, is varied: it goes from a closure of the orange zone, with bars and restaurants closed at lunchtime and the prohibition of leaving the municipality itself, to an “intermediate” one characterized by a curfew. early – perhaps at 8 pm – even the most severe: closing of bars, shops and restaurants and the obligation to stay within the municipal limits.
Covid and Christmas in the red zone, Toti: “Surrealist”
In Liguria, the President of the Region, Giovanni Toti, is part of the group of those who ask for a little more freedom for the holidays, and on Monday morning he attacked the hypothesis of the red zone, defining “surrealist the idea of a new confinement for Christmas “. , announced by the government almost with penitential pleasure. As if Italians were punished for wanting to buy some gifts to make these holidays less loved.
“The claim to divide the country between those who fight the virus and those who watch the economy in crisis seems absurd to me: as if allowing shops, restaurants, bars and many other companies to survive, where contagion allows it, it was a sin. ” – added Toti, now expected in Sarzana and La Spezia – Perhaps it is for those who dream of a country made up of citizenship income. It is a pity that in Italy there are 5 million more poor people and when the blockade ends in March, which now prevents layoffs, it will be even worse. Enough of this emotional pandemic, where one day it opens and the next day it closes based on a photo, moods on social networks or fear at the moment. Italians are serious people. Certainly more than those who decide out of fear or, worse still, out of fear of their own responsibility.
On the other hand, government decisions would prevail over regional ones in terms of closures: if Conte opts for the squeeze, Liguria would also have to adapt. However, the situation is different if the impulse to close comes from within. Already at the beginning of the second wave, a more restrictive order had been adopted both for Genoa – starting from the historic center – and for La Spezia.
Mayor Marco Bucci had signed a more restrictive ordinance in November (precisely because the dpcm allowed it) to extend the curfew only in the Ligurian capital and establish it from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The provision expired at the end of November and Genoa also returned to the national calendar 22-5.
To date, there has been no talk of specific ordinances to extend it again, pending – in all probability – the decisions of the Government. The truth is that even in the Ligurian capital on Saturdays and Sundays the shopping streets were stormed, and there was no lack of controversy over the opening of shops and the closing, instead, of restaurants and bars at 6 in the afternoon. , now reopened, and the parks have been the destination for Sunday excursions, thanks to the good weather and milder temperatures: from Corso Italia to the Nervi parks via Porto Antico (where the skating rink has also been opened) Many people have taken advantage of the sunny Sunday to go out.
