ROME – The Ministry of the Interior has sent to the prefects the guidelines for the application of the latest dpcm launched by the government with the containment measures in Covid in anticipation of the Christmas holidays.
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Self-certification to travel
“It should be noted, it is written in the circular, that among the situations of need, for which the use of the self-declaration form is not affected, it may include, by way of example only, the need to communicate with family or friends, not self-sufficient, in order to provide assistance, in accordance with what has already been clarified in the specific Faq published on the Government’s website ”.
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Strict checks on holidays
The Ministry of the Interior indicates to pay maximum attention to the controls in the main traffic arteries and in the stations to ensure compliance with the regulations and limitations on travel between regions from December 21 to January 6 and, between municipalities, on Christmas days. , S. Stefano and New Year: “Attention must be paid to the controls that will be carried out in the main traffic arteries and in the different nodes of the transport networks, taking into account, above all, the movements resulting from the particular restrictions provided for in paragraph 4 of article 1 Dpcm “.
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Second homes only in the region
“The return to one’s residence, domicile or home is still allowed – writes the Viminale – With the exception of trips to second homes located in another autonomous region or province. On December 25 and 26, 2020 and January 1, 2021, the aforementioned prohibition also applies to second residences located in another municipality ”.
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School in presence, table to organize transport
For the school, “it is expected that, as of January 7, 2021, face-to-face teaching will be guaranteed to 75% of the student population of secondary education institutions.” The prefects will be in charge of “ensuring that the effective resumption of face-to-face teaching is combined with the capacities of the public mobility system.” In each prefecture, therefore, a “coordination table” was created with “the state administrations of the school sector and transport” but also with “the territorial administrations and local transport companies”, a table that would define “the most important link. appropriate time between start and end of teaching activities and schedules of local, urban and extra-urban public transport services, depending on the availability of means of transport that can be used for this purpose ”.
Regions may close schools
“The recourse to the power of autonomic ordinance, with effectiveness limited to the provincial level for which its exercise should be necessary, is configured as a” closure “intervention, conceivable in the event that the action had as objective to reactivate teaching in the presence must meet with critical issues of various kinds, which cannot be overcome by completing the coordination phase “, at the table chaired by the Prefect of Transport. In short, if not even the coordination table can solve the problem of school transport in a province, the Region can reorganize distance learning.
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Libraries open, museums closed
“By confirming the suspension of exhibitions and public opening services of museums and other institutes and cultural places – it is written in the circular to the prefects – the opening of libraries is foreseen, specifying that the relative services are offered in reserve, as well as the files, without prejudice to compliance with the measures to contain the epidemiological emergency “.
Stores always open until 9pm
Shops, the circular warns the prefects, are open until 9:00 p.m. in the period between December 4, 2020 and January 6, 2021. A decided measure “to cover mobility needs related to Christmas shopping , dissolving into more hours of access to shops “.
All kinds of shopping centers are closed on holidays
“In the days leading up to vacations and holidays, indoor stores, as well as markets and shopping malls, also shopping arcades, shopping parks, business combinations and other similar structures are closed. the field of attivita ‘that remain pampered during the festive and prefestive suddette closings, now also the points of sale of agricultural products and florovivaistici “.
Quarantine for those returning or arriving from abroad
“In the period between December 21, 2020 and January 6, 20212, the circular warns,” the obligation to submit to sanitary surveillance and fiduciary isolation is in force “for people” who, resident or not in Italy , enter the national territory “.
