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Christmas shopping, snacks at the bar or a simple walk in the fresh air. In good weather, the streets of the center of the big cities were stormed on Sunday. From Rome to Turin, from Milan to Bologna via Naples and Florence, the streets were filled with people who (mostly) wore masks. But there was no shortage of gatherings and queues. Not just shopping: according to Codiretti estimates, with the return of four new Regions between the yellow areas (Lombardy, Piedmont, Calabria and Basilicata), approximately 94 thousand between bars, restaurants, pizzerias and farmhouses Forced to close for weeks or simply for take out or home delivery.
Milan: queue for an aperitif in the center
Crowd in the center of Milan, but orderly and with a mask, on the first day of the yellow zone for Lombardy. Many flocked to the shopping streets and the historic center for shopping. Long line in front of the department stores in Piazza Duomo, but many also Milanese just walking or having an aperitif after the long closing of bars and restaurants. Small stores are less popular for now, while Confcommercio calls for malls to reopen over the weekend.
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From Milan to Naples, crowds and queues in the downtown streets
Brescia: intensified controls
On the first day of the yellow zone in Lombardy, the prefect of Brescia Attilio Visconti ordered an intensification of controls to avoid behaviors that represent contempt, as well as current regulations, the existing situation and related deaths. The decision was made after the presence of various gatherings and people who did not use the mask in the city center during purchases on Saturday, Visconti explained.
Turin: queues for shops
When Piedmont entered the red zone, the historic Caff Torino in Piazza San Carlo was the first to lower the blinds, deciding not to even remove. On Sunday it reopened with a very different atmosphere and the tables were filled again (except for those that were left empty due to distancing). Let’s start over but nobody knows how long – they say on the bar – to be positive. The streets of downtown are packed with people, with queues in front of clothing stores for Christmas shopping. However, the accesses are regulated. Crazy traffic and full parking spaces. Bars and restaurants reopened, with many reservations made in the previous days for Sunday lunch. Lots of people also in the traditional Crocetta market.
Bologna: crowded center
The center of Bologna was full on the penultimate Sunday before Christmas, with rivers of people who, since late in the morning, poured into the streets of the pedestrian zone T to shop and stroll taking advantage of the sunny day and the restaurants open for lunch. In addition to the shopping streets in the shops, the Piazza Santo Stefano is also very popular, where the antique market is installed. Even on Saturday, despite the rainy weather, the historic center was filled with people. Many people, but also many masks, had commented the mayor of Bologna Virginio Merola on the sidelines of the inauguration of the nativity scene in the Municipality, specifying that in a week it will be possible to decide whether the situation will harden even more.
Rome: Porta Portese reopening
On Sunday one of the symbols of the capital reopened: the Porta Portese market. Access areas were manned to avoid meetings, but the area was raided. The packed house was also registered in the center of Rome, with the central streets and shopping streets crowded with people searching for Christmas gifts. I make an appeal– Avoid the crowds, otherwise the third wave will be inevitable. Shopping doesn’t have to frustrate your efforts. We must maintain a line of rigor, says the Councilor for Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato. Saturday afternoon, due to too much influx, it was indeed necessary near via del Corso at intervals of about 15 minutes, in addition to blocking the Flaminio and Spagna metro stops for about two hours. And now the Codacons are asking to establish the limited number on commercial streets or the City will have to answer for competition in guilty epidemic and crimes against public health. In anti-Covid controls have been identified 665 people and 121 controlled commercial businesses.
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The Porta Portese market reopens, crowded in front of the stalls
Venice, riot alarm
On Saturday in Venice, about 40 teenagers hit each other in Campo Bella Viena, behind the Rialto. The kids had made an appointment a few yards from the old courthouse, where it became a ritual to consume the evening spritz. After the first shoves, the situation degenerated and involved all the teenagers present, some of whom were clearly drunk. In a scenario that already sees Veneto in great difficulties in terms of infections and victims, the concentrations registered in the main cities are alarming signs of a situation that seems out of control, writes the council group of the Veneto Democratic Party.
Naples: no meetings
The weekend of good weather also brought the Neapolitans for a walk through the streets of the center and along the seafront. Police checks on Saturday resulted in 50 fines for citizens without masks, overcrowded businesses or without temperature scanners. He also discovered a Covid-19 positive man walking instead of staying home. People on the street? a foregone conclusion warns the mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris. There are no meetings and if there are, the police are there. People walk as they do in Bologna, Florence, Venice, Palermo, Bari, Verona, and Berlin. As is the case in all parts of the world – he adds – next week, if we are in the yellow zone of people, we will also see triple. People are not defamatory, they respect the rules and more than 95 percent wear masks. If in the Dpcm it is written that in the orange zone people can go out, then they go out and if someone is surprised, concludes a person who does not have a particularly oxygenated amount of brain.
December 13, 2020 (change December 13, 2020 | 17:24)
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