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Half of Italy has turned yellow again but it is not yet time to lower our guard and loosen the restrictive measures because a mistake today would lead to a third wave in January: “we are still missing some other sacrifices,” reiterates the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, pressured by the Regions that continue. ask the government to review the options on the prohibition of moving between municipalities imposed on Christmas, San Esteban and New Year. Also because, it is the fear of the President of Lombardy Attilio Fontana, which is why there is a risk of a leak from the North in the last weekend before December 25, as it already happened in March a few hours after the closure.
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The first day of the new Dpcm, therefore, sees Italy change color again and turn yellow, with 11 regions entering the area with the softest restrictions as of December 6. In addition to Sicily, Liguria, Lazio, Molise, Sardinia, Veneto and the province of Trento, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche, Puglia and Umbria. With the new ordinance signed by Minister Speranza, Campania, Tuscany, Valle d’Aosta and the province of Bolzano become oranges, in addition to Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Basilicata, which could already turn yellow next week.
In the 4 new orange regions, as of Sunday it will be possible to reopen the stores but they will have to remain in that range for two weeks: on December 18, if the data confirms the trend, they will also enter the area with the least restrictions. On the other hand, Abruzzo remains the only Italian region. “Our goal – says President Marco Marsilio – is to move to the orange zone no later than December 8 to allow the stores to reopen at full capacity and at the most important moment, which is when the Christmas season opens.” Concern shared by most of the region’s presidents who pressure the government to change the prohibitions imposed by the holidays.
The toughest is the governor of Calabria Nino Spirlì who defines the closures as an “almost criminal act” while Luca Zaia is convinced that there are “margins” to convince the government: “At Christmas we are all better and that is why I hope a repentance of the government”. . Another problem is added to the problem of divided families, the risk of mass exoduses from the north. “On December 19 and 20 – says Fontana – we run the risk of reviewing what happened at night between March 7 and 8”, a few hours before the closure of Italy. A fear that seems borne out by a fact: Alitalia saw bookings soar with a 50% increase between December 17 and 20. With the government’s Faq, however, it is likely that a number of travel concerns will be clarified – for example, it will be reiterated that it will be possible to reach an elderly person alone or not self-sufficient even on Christmas Day and it will be possible to reunite couples may they live far away – but the Palazzo Chigi line will not change. “It would be nice to say ‘let’s remove all limitations, everyone can return to normal’ – repeats Speranza – but we would not tell the truth and we would have to pay a huge price.”
A position confirmed by scientists. Indeed, it is true that there are “many positive signs”, warns the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità Silvio Brusaferro, but in any case “much attention must be paid to containment measures.” It means, according to the prevention director of the ministry, Gianni Rezza, that “we need prudence for the holidays” and we must still “avoid aggregations” and meetings. And it is on this last aspect where the controls that the Ministry of the Interior is preparing will focus. The Christmas plan provides for intense controls, although, it is reiterated, the same rigidity will not be applied during the confinement because in that case there were much stricter prohibitions. Special attention will be paid to respecting the curfew, to travel bans, with random checks and then more stringent on holidays and weekends, and to monitoring, including with drones, streets and shopping plazas to avoid meetings. In Rome they will start the weekend and little by little they will continue to the rest of Italy. Always with the same objective: to avoid starting 2021 with the third wave of the virus, the hospitals full again and the hundreds of deaths a day. Even today 814, more than Italians have died in the earthquakes in L’Aquila and central Italy.
