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Behind the decision to include Sicilia in the yellow zone is a great fear: leaving the orange zone runs the risk of throwing away the results obtained with the restrictions. Without turning around, the experts of the regional technical scientific committee that Governor Nello Musumeci announced that he wants to hear in the next few hours say this. The president of the Region will probably meet with them today before signing a new ordinance in which he will have to undo a knot: continue to keep businesses closed on Sundays or adapt to the relaxation of containment measures.
What changes and why
With the new ordinance to be signed by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, in force since Sunday, in Sicily bars and restaurants will be able to open, not only to take away, from 5 in the morning to 18. There will no longer be a ban on traveling from de one municipality to another or leaving the region. Nothing will change for schools, shopping malls, bingo halls, museums and sports centers. What convinced the experts from the Ministry of Health – Control Room of the Higher Institute of Health was the data from the last week that photographed an improvement in some of the most important indicators in Sicily. In the first place, the Rt index that on the island fell in a week from 1.14 to 1.05. And then the percentage of occupation of places in intensive care and in ordinary hospitalization of patients with Covid, both below (for a short time) the risk threshold with, respectively, 30 percent and 36 percent, compared to a national average. of 44 and 50.
“The bet”
The Sicilian experts at CTS didn’t take it well. Antonino Giarratano, professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, talks about a “shameful choice” in the national color game: “They make a bet. If it goes well, it goes well, if it goes bad we go back to red before Christmas. But much of deaths and the pressure on hospitals don’t give a damn to anyone. ”Bruno Cacopardo, director of Infectious Diseases at Garibaldi in Catania, does the same:” I do not agree at all with this promotion: it is dangerous, at this moment in the one that we are slowly collecting the results of the restrictions. “Cacopardo’s fear is essentially one: not having time to free the wards before fighting another wave of infections and hospitalizations.” You cannot risk suffocating the health system – he says the doctor – I swear to you that a few weeks ago the danger of breaking down the system was high. In this way there will be new infections and therefore new people who will have to go to the hospital. And there, however, I found They will attack those who contracted the disease two or three weeks ago ”.
Musumeci’s doubt
Musumeci, after having expressed “satisfaction” and assured “the same commitment made since the beginning of the pandemic”, announced that he will meet, together with the Councilor for Health Ruggero Razza, the cts, “to evaluate the measures to be taken in light of the new classification. Let me be clear: it is not all free. ”He will listen to the experts, will let his entourage know, before signing a new ordinance that will replace the last one in force until December 3 that prohibits, beyond the limitations of the orange zone, the opening of shops on Sundays The knot to untie is precisely this: to keep the line of firmness or to let go?
“We are confident that the Region will now review its options regarding the Sunday closing of business activities. It was already a stretch to close them when Sicilia was the orange zone, now that Sicily has become the yellow zone, we expect an immediate revocation of that provision ”, says the president of Confcommercio Palermo Patrizia Di Dio, who asks to save next Sunday, that of Black. Friday.
For tomorrow, however, bars and restaurants will begin to be set up that will be open to customers until 6 in the afternoon. “It is an encouraging sign, there is no doubt about that – says Antonio Cottone from Fipe – But it is clear that there is still a bitter taste in the mouth: give us the opportunity to open ourselves until 10 at night and breathe a little oxygen” .
