“Putting in the red zone without our knowledge, is a slap to the citizens”

Giuseppe Conte yesterday at a press conference at Palazzo Chigi formalized the closure of the Regions as of tomorrow, November 6 and the division of Italy into red, orange and yellow zones or areas depending on the parameters on the spread of the epidemic of coronavirus. Yesterday the Civil Protection bulletin reported 30,550 new cases, about 2,000 more than yesterday but with 29,000 more swabs and 352 deaths.

“They shut us down based on old data”

According to the figures, Lombardy is the region with the highest increase in cases: 7,758 identified in the last 24 hours, about a thousand more than yesterday. Campania also takes a leap forward, with 4181 new cases, almost 1200 more than on Tuesday. They are followed by Piedmont (+3577), Veneto (2436) and Lazio (2432). According to Conte’s announcement:

• the regions of the red zone are Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta;
• the areas in the yellow area are Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, in addition to the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano (the latter, however, was declared the red area as of tomorrow with an ordinance ), Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto.
• the areas in the orange area are Puglia and Sicily.

However, as soon as the ordinance of the Ministry of Health arrived, the revolt of the presidents of the Region broke out. In the first place, they accuse the government of “not even listening to them” despite being aware of exactly the opposite, but also that the division into areas or zones was carried out based on indicators and numerical parameters or based on the same data as the regions. they provided the government. But it is also true that the Dpcm text establishes that the Health Minister Roberto Speranza’s ordinance is issued “after listening to the presidents of the regions concerned” and this, according to a background of today’s Fatto Quotidiano, has not happened. But “feeling” does not mean “negotiating”, as Conte recalled yesterday at a press conference.

“They have not even heard from us, however the Dpcm foresees that the ordinances of the Ministry of Health on closures will be issued after having listened to the governors.” Different people say it, outside of the notebook, “because if we spoke in quotation marks who knows what we could say …”. But the governor of Sicily, Nello Musumeci, clearly protests: “Hope has relegated us to the orange zone without any prior agreement with the Region or scientific explanation.”

The governor of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, also comes out after weeks of clandestine war: “The government is deciding in which band to insert Lombardy, but unfortunately it is doing so with data from more than ten days. Today the data is there, and it is from them that all decisions will have to be made. “In the same position, the president of Liguria Giovanni Toti:” If it were not dramatic, the situation would begin to turn grotesque, we expect a confrontation technical with the government on the technical qualification of the data “.

However, it is true that the measures were decided on the basis of already outdated data: as explained in recent days and reiterated today Republicyesterday, to insert the six Regions in the red and orange zones, last Friday’s tracking was used, based on data from October 19 to 25. For this reason, Corriere della Sera reports today, Fontana himself uses a strong tone: “The requests of the Region have not even been taken into account. A slap in the face of Lombardy and all the Lombards. A way of behaving that my people don’t deserve. ” On the other hand, as Today.it writes, for days the institutions lost time in confinement and refused to decide, with the result of aggravating the situation. Now that the government has finally taken on the (unpopular) burden, what exactly is there to complain about?

All new rules for regions in the annex of the Dpcm

What rules are in effect in the yellow, orange and red zones

As a result of Dpcm November 3, whose text was published yesterday in the Official Gazette, there are rules that apply to the three areas and differentiated rules based on the red, orange and green zones. In all these areas -. and, therefore, throughout Italy: there is a curfew from 10 pm to 5 pm, except in movements motivated by proven work needs, situations of need or for health reasons. In the yellow zone, travel outside the Region is also allowed, as long as the neighboring Regions are in the same moderate risk zone. In any case, it is strongly recommended that all natural persons, throughout the day, do not travel by public or private transport, except for work or study needs, for health reasons, for situations of need or to carry out activities or use non-services. suspended “.

Public transport capacity is reduced by half to 50% and museums, exhibitions, gambling corners and bingo (in bars and tobacconists) are closed. In the yellow and orange areas “the shopping centers (are) closed on holidays and before the holidays, but the food stores, pharmacies, parapharmacies and kiosks located inside will remain open” and there is “distance education in 100% for all upper secondary and third grade secondary school students “; apart of this:

• in the orange zone, “all movement into and out of the Regions is prohibited, except movements motivated by proven labor needs or situations of need or for health reasons”;
• in the orange and red areas “bars, restaurants, discos, pubs, ice cream parlors and pastry shops” are “always closed, but they can continue to sell take-out (until 10pm) or deliver it to your home”;
• always in the orange and red areas the stores are “closed, except for the sale of food and basic necessities, both in the neighborhood stores and in the medium and large distribution, also included in the shopping centers;
• even markets are “closed, except for activities for the sale of food only”;

Instead, these are the measures that exclusively concern the so-called red zones:

• It is “prohibited to move within and outside the Regions and also between Municipalities and Provinces of the same Region, except movements motivated by proven labor needs or situations of need or for health reasons”;
• shopping centers are “closed, but grocery stores, pharmacies, parapharmacies and kiosks within them will remain open”;
• there is 100% distance learning for all high school students and for junior and senior high school;

Self-certification to travel after the new Dpcm