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L ‘Italy cornered again by him pandemic.
Infections have exceeded the threshold of 10,000 on Friday, October 16, and the experts re-launched the health alert. A not very reassuring panorama, from which no optimistic near future emerges.
The Government, in fact, is preparing to give new indications to avoid the spread of positive ones, with one probable. DPCM between Sunday and Monday. Curfew at 10pm? Closing of non-essential stores? Travel ban? Distance education?
All legitimate questions, given the uncertainty about what to do and, above all, the need to stop the current wave. Meanwhile, however, thecontagion alarm in Italy it carries two more: poverty increases and the risk of a commercial crisis increases.
Italy: with COVID there are increasingly poor people
me poorAnd unsurprisingly, given the situation, they are increasing in Italy. A sudden and obvious increase in what Caritas observed in its last report.
In the period May-September 2020, the newly indigent were the Four. Five%, compared to 31% in the same period of the previous year. The alarming aspect is that, one in two people who came to the institution for help, did so for the first time. As evidence, therefore, that the current health crisis has had effects that cannot be fully estimated at the economic level, generating poverty that is often not accounted for.
Families with dependent minor children, women, young people and all families of Italian origin (il 52% compared to 47.9 in 2019), not foreigners, have appeared at the doors of Caritas in recent months.
And the sad news was to record the debut of children Merchants and of Free-lancers as new poor, a total of 2,073 in the period examined It is not surprising that Caritas have activated specific support funds for rentals, mortgages, purchases necessary for economic activity.
Businesses tremble at risk of lockdown
A heartfelt appeal also came from the business side. Confcommercio, in the words of President Sangalli, raised the alarm:
“This new health emergency, with curfews and anticipated closures of public establishments, increases uncertainty and puts at risk tens of thousands of companies“
Specifically, the uncertainty surrounding the fourth quarter due to the dynamics of infections will have serious repercussions on the sectors of coexistence and coexistence. tourism, which, in the body estimates “It will not be affected by the recovery in GDP”.
The small business world is already trembling at the prospect of further restrictions on vacancies. The Confcommercio study, in fact, underscored that the recovery that started in the summer months was too small.
Services related to tourism, transport and leisure also suffered losses fifty% compared to 2019 and the recovery is not yet evident. The lower domestic consumption was accompanied by a collapse in external demand, which in autumn accounted for 60%.
