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Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Sicily and Veneto will be in the orange strip from Sunday, with Health Minister Roberto Speranza who signed the new ordinances: “We must maintain the highest level of care, the virus circulates a lot and the index contagion is growing. “
What can be done Bars and restaurants will be closed, secondary schools will continue with distance education and it will be prohibited to leave their own municipality, with the exception of the movements of those with a population of up to 5,000 inhabitants within a 30-kilometer radius of the border. The orange zone for the 5 Regions was triggered by the changes introduced with the decree of January 5, which lowered the Rt threshold that determines the positioning in the bands: with Rt higher than 1.25 even at the minimum value and moderate risk enters the red zone, with Rt at 1 it enters orange This last condition was in which Calabria (1.04 in the minimum value), Emilia-Romagna (1.03) and Lombardy (1.24) were located. Sicilia, on the other hand, has a minimum Rt of 0.99 and a moderate risk, but it was the Council itself, on the basis of what was suggested by the regional CTS, to ask to be placed in the orange band.
Similar speech for Veneto: the RT is 0.96 in the minimum value but the risk of aggravation is high given that the incidence rate at 14 days is 927 per 100,000 inhabitants compared to a national average of 313. The ordinances They will be valid until January 15, the date on which the Dpcm expires, and with the new provision the extensions will be evaluated.
Clash between regions and government The new classification reopens the confrontation between the Regions and the government: “It is crazy – the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca shoots – so we are sending an entire country to asylum.” The model, adds Attilio Fontana, generates “only very significant uncertainties and economic damages.” The answer comes from the Minister for Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia: with the gang system “confinement is avoided”, a hypothesis that Palazzo Chigi does not want to take into account at the moment.
However, there will be a new setting. The follow-up indicates 12 high-risk and 8 moderate-risk Regions and Autonomous Provinces, with 13 Regions having an occupancy rate of places in intensive care and in medical areas above the critical threshold. So next week, if the data worsens as experts expect, other territories will move into the orange or red zone. The epidemic, experts say, is “in a delicate phase that seems to herald a new and rapid increase in cases in the coming weeks, if stricter mitigation measures are not defined and rigorously applied.”
The government will begin working on the draft as of Monday, but some points have already been defined and Speranza will illustrate them in the Chamber on the 13th. The curfew will be confirmed at 10 p.m. and the yellow zone will be strengthened, so with the prohibition of travel between regions. On the other hand, the discussion remains open on whether or not to confirm the possibility of transferring only once a day a maximum of two people to visit family and friends, within the Region if it is yellow, only in the municipal term if it is orange or red.
By Pub me restaurants the opening in the yellow regions will be confirmed until 6 pm, while the gyms and swimming pools must remain closed. The hypothesis on this front is to link openings and closings to the band system, with the possibility of allowing training in the yellow regions, but first the CTS will have to express itself.
The school Separate speech for the school: the current Dpcm provided for the return of secondary school children from the 7th but the government had already postponed the deadline to Monday the 11th and several Regions have postponed it even more, some to January 18, some to 25 and some to February 1. The government could decide to intervene in the new Dpcm and postpone the return to classes until at least February 1. to prevent each Region from spoiling.
WHO: “The immunity of those who have contracted virus can last from 6 to 8 months” Studies have shown that immunity to the coronavirus of a person who has contracted it can last up to “six to eight months”. WHO doctor Maria van Kerkhove said this at the regular Covid-19 briefing. The director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has asked countries to stop making “bilateral agreements” with the companies that produce the coronavirus vaccine. “No country is exceptional and should skip the queue, while some remain vaccine-free,” said the director.
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