Lombardy Yellow Zone on January 7. But it may not last – Chronicle

Milan, January 3, 2020 – What color will the reboot be? Lombardy After the forced color calendar introduced by the government from December 24 to January 6? For the moment the certainties are few and limited. The first begins and ends with January 7 and 8, days when Lombardy should return yellow, like before Christmas.

From the Region they know that for now the only meeting with the Government and the Scientific Technical Committee National is scheduled for January 8. If no other calls will be made between now and that day, the 7th and 8th will be yellow and the destination of the following days will depend on the result of the call. confrontation between the Government and the Regions. In this sense, the data that will emerge from the monitoring set for January 5. The other certainty is that linked to January 15, the day on which the last government decree expires, the one on which basic restrictions, restrictions valid nationally regardless of the color in which the individual region is located.
Speaking of restrictions, the regional council now welcomes the government’s decision to reopen the ski lifts on January 18, while in recent weeks they were expected to reopen from January 7. “The Government has finally listened to the Autonomous Regions and Provinces: we are satisfied with the decision of Minister Roberto Speranza”, declared in a joint statement Martina Cambiaghi, Councilor for Sports of the Lombardy Region and the councilors responsible for skiing in the Regions and Autonomous Provinces of the Alpine Arch and the Abruzzo region. In addition to the approval of the protocol, for which we are awaiting the validation of the CTS, we had asked for a specific date for everyone in the winter mountains to prepare properly: now we have it ”, continue the regional councilors. In recent weeks, however, the same Regions had attacked the Government for the decision to leave the plants closed during the Christmas holidays.

In front of contagion, the bulletin for the last 24 hours shows 1,402 new positives in Lombardy out of 11,758 swabs performed: 11.9% of the total. Therefore, the positivity rate is increasing compared to the last week of December, when, with the exception of December 31, it was between 6.5% and 10.4% depending on the day. Yesterday there were 626 cured or discharged compared to the day before yesterday. Intensive care patients increased slightly: 4 more than the day before yesterday for a total of 491. The number of non-intensive hospital patients decreased: 59 less, 3,293 in total. Deaths in the last 24 hours were 78, for a total of 25,281 lives lost in Lombardy since the start of the pandemic. Of the 1,402 new positives, 596 are in the metropolitan area of ​​Milan, of which 163 are in the city of Milan.