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Sardinia could be one of the Regions that the Ministry of Health, by ordinance, would insert in the most moderate risk zone among the three that will be identified in the next Dpcm. One of the criteria that defines the risk coefficient is the contagion index, the R
COPRIFUOCO AND ITALY DIVIDED INTO THREE – Curfew at night throughout Italy and three Regions – Lombardy, Piedmont and Calabria – which run the risk of having to adopt the most restrictive measures, including the general closure. The new Dpcm that the government should launch on Wednesday is taking shape, although there are still several pending points, from the moment when the start of everything will begin. There will be a national framework, with valid interventions throughout Italy, and measures for individual territories, with the country divided into 3 bands that correspond to so many risk scenarios identified with “scientific and objective” criteria approved by the Higher Institute of Health: the higher is the spread of the virus, the more the health system suffers, the greater the restrictions.
NATIONAL MEASURES – In Parliament, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks of a “new corpus of restrictive measures” pointing out seven interventions that will affect the whole country: the closure of shopping centers on holidays and before holidays, with the exception of essential activities in the interior (pharmacies, parapharmacies, food, tobacco and kiosks); the closure of ‘corners’ used for betting and gaming activities wherever they are located, therefore no more slot machines in bars and tobacconists; the closure of all museums and exhibitions; the reduction of the filling capacity of buses and subways of local public transport with the capacity ranging from 80% to 50%, a measure requested for months by the Scientific Technical Committee to reduce the spread of the infection.
The Dpcm also provides for 100% distance learning for secondary schools, therefore for secondary schools, even if the formula used by the prime minister in Parliament – “even in its entirety” – does not clarify whether it is an obligation. or a choice left to the institutions. Kindergarten, elementary school and high school will continue to attend, unless they are in areas where more limitations will occur due to a higher level of risk. The last two measures at the national level refer to the limit to travel to and from those regions that have high risk coefficients, which can only be waived for proven work needs, study reasons, health and needs, and the curfew. On this last point, the discussion in the government is still open: Conte spoke of “limits to late afternoon traffic,” which would seem to invalidate the hypothesis of a curfew at 6 in the afternoon. The hypothesis that emerged during the meeting of the majority heads of delegation is to stop at 21, but there is still no agreement. On the other hand, yesterday the idea of a kind of “generational lockdown” circulated, which included the obligation of the elderly to stay at home, it finally disappeared.
ITALY SPLIT IN 3 BANDS – National measures will be accompanied by specific interventions at the local level. “Also because -explained the prime minister- today an indistinct restrictive regime would have a double negative result”: it would not allow effective measures to be taken in the areas of greatest risk and would impose overly severe measures where they are not necessary. Therefore, Italy will be divided into 3 zones: “criteria are established – government sources explain – that trigger an automatism; certain scenarios correspond to certain measures”. In the first strip will be the Regions considered “higher risk”, therefore, those in which the situation is compatible with the one hypothesized in ‘scenario 4’ of the ISS document: an Rt greater than 1.5 and an “uncontrolled transmissibility “from Covid.
With the current data, Piedmont, Lombardy, both with Rt above 2, and Calabria would end, but the situation could change: in the next few hours, updated monitoring data will be available, with the CTS meeting to analyze them in order of Delivering to the government the most current ‘photograph’ of the epidemiological situation in Italy. This is the range in which the most restrictive measures are envisaged: from local closures at the provincial level for at least 3 weeks to the limitation of individual mobility until the closure of the entire Region with the exception of essential activities. The province of Bolzano has already placed itself autonomously in this band: after leaving bars and restaurants open in contrast to the Dpcm of October 24, it has announced a 3-week closure. In the second band are all those territories in which the risk factor is compatible with ‘scenario 3’, with an Rt between 1.25 and 1.5 and a “sustained and generalized transmissibility with risks of maintenance of the health system in the medium term”.
In this case, “slightly less restrictive” measures are envisaged, the prime minister said. Which? Closing of activities, limitations to mobility in municipalities and provinces, closing of schools and universities due to epidemiological situation. In the last band, the third, all Regions that have a risk index compatible with ‘scenario 2’, where the TR is between 1 and 1.25, will end. According to the latest available tracking, only Basilicata (1.04) and Sardinia (1.12).
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