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Rome: the entire red zone of Italy on holidays and days before holidays or a single orange zone from December 24 to January 6. And tighter controls at stations, airports, major highways and shopping streets, to avoid crowds the last weekend before Christmas. The government is preparing the bind for the Christmas season even if the hypotheses are still on the table. And for 5 in the afternoon, as announced by the governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, a new meeting is scheduled between the government and the regions.
The measures, the scenarios, the hypotheses
The first squeeze is the one held by the ‘penalty shooters’, that is a red zone for all of Italy from December 24 to January 6 even if the most likely compromise involves an Italy in red from December 24 to 27 and from December 31 to January 3, eight days in total in which all the regulations already in force in the ‘red’ regions would be valid: any prohibited movement, not only within and outside the region itself but also within the municipality of residence, except for proven work needs, health reasons or situations of need.
me all stores would be closed (except groceries and pharmacies) as well as restaurants, bars, pubs, ice cream parlors and pastry shops. In fact, it was possible to leave the house only for physical activity, but “in the immediate vicinity of the house” or sports activity “individually”.
Then there is another softer hypothesis which provides for the establishment of an orange zone for the whole of Italy from Christmas Eve to Befana or, alternatively, the days before the holidays, namely December 24, 31 and January 2.
The measures envisaged in this range would allow However, block movements outside your own municipality. and to close bars and restaurants – two of the interventions that technicians invoke to avoid lunches, dinners and gatherings in homes or discos – while the shops remain open. The measures on the control front, on the other hand, are clearer, which will focus mainly on the weekend of December 19-20, as well as the days when the toughest restrictions will be imposed. For the last weekend before Christmas, a massive exodus of Italians is expected to move to reach relatives before the bans are activated and therefore interventions must be planned. The Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese He called the Public Order and Security Commission in the next few hours to take stock of the plan to strengthen controls but also to verify the security and anti-terrorism measures with a view to Christmas.
me Chief of Police Franco Gabrielli has already sent a circular to the prefects and quaestors with which he asks “a careful and coordinated action control measures“both in stations, ports and airports, bus terminals and highway restaurants to monitor traffic flows, as well as” in areas of foreseeable agglomeration “, that is to say in streets and shopping malls where” the risk of non-compliance is higher, even involuntary , of the measures of interpersonal distancing “. In view of December 21, writes the Chief of Police,” an increase in traffic flows is foreseeable“determined by” significant movements of people “to the point that” it is not excluded that concentrations may take place in railway stations, port and airport, as well as in public transport terminals, even with possible moments of tension between users ” .
Therefore, “adequate measures, also of an organizational nature, that are valid to ensure compliance with the current regulatory framework” to combat Covid must be carefully developed. The controls should involve both the local police and the railway, highway and airport police. and they should also aim to verify the correct use of the mask.
The main objective, they explain to the Ministry of the Interior, is not so much to ‘block’ people but make sure no meetings are created, neither in the stations nor in the streets and squares. For this reason, rather than restricting access to shopping streets, which would generate gatherings at the doors, the objective will be to establish one-way pedestrian streets. However, it will be up to the local committees to decide what are the most appropriate measures. In Milan it has already been decided to limit the presence in the Vittorio Emanuele gallery, with forced departures.
The governor of Liguria Toti: “Red zone? It is unfair to do it where it could be done without “
“If the government decides the red zone for all of Italy at Christmas, we will necessarily adapt, but I think it is an injustice, it is unfair to change the rules in a more restrictive way even when it could be dispensed with.” This was reiterated by the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, this morning on Radio 1. “Could you give a break to someone you would like to meet at Christmas after a difficult year and to a company that may be on the verge of bankruptcy “, he comments.
“It is clear that the areas where the epidemic curve is very high at this time, it is only fair that there be greater caution compared to those territories, like Liguria, where the curve goes downwards. It seems to me that that was the legal principle and the method of approaching the virus that we gave ourselves on December 3, less than two weeks ago. ”
Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa and a member of the Covid-19 crisis unit of Liguria, was also criticized: “Italy in the red zone at Christmas is an incomprehensible choice and a commitment that does not it will lead to nothing. It is a wrong choice that goes against the principles in which we have moved until now. “
