The new Dpcm anticipated for Monday, October 12 and specific closures in the regions

The new Dpcm could arrive tonight, Monday, October 12. To confirm yesterday’s indiscretion was the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza in Rai3’s ‘Che tempo che fa’: “We hope to sign it tomorrow night.” We are in a phase change and we need to tighten the shirts and in the Dpcm there will be a gear change even with measurements in higher risk areas. Let’s try to play early to raise the level of attention ”. Before, at 3 pm, a meeting of the Scientific Technical Committee is scheduled to discuss the possible measures that should later be adopted in the decree.

The new Dpcm scheduled for Monday, October 12

In yesterday’s comparison, indications emerged about reducing the quarantine from 14 to 10 days, with a single control swab at the exit, and about the possibility that swabs are also performed by general practitioners and pediatricians with a view to a reduction. files to drive. Yesterday the Civil Protection bulletin reported 5,456, a slight decrease compared to 5,724 on Saturday, but with more than 28 thousand fewer tampons, as always happens on Sundays. The pressure on intensive care is worrying, with still few hospitalizations out of the total number of patients, but growing in absolute terms also due to the many daily infections: only yesterday 30 more. Measurements of the new Dpcm include:

• Improving the use of smart work for public employees with the introduction of a 70% threshold in offices;
• The masks that are worn everywhere, even for sporting activities with some exceptions, as the Viminale circular explained yesterday;
• Rules for bars and restaurants: after 9 pm it will no longer be possible to consume food and drinks outside the premises; closing will be at 11 pm or midnight;
• Additional restrictions for public events (stadiums, cinemas, theaters);
• Limitations for private events: we think of a threshold of 30 people for wedding guests;
• Stop to contact sports (soccer, basketball, etc)

According to the minister, the government “will strengthen its ties” in that non-essential part of people’s lives “and” we will intervene to prevent private parties that we can avoid at this time and gatherings – he explained that we will act on timetables and increase controls. “There are also plans to insert measures” related to sports where it is not possible to wear masks and maintain distance. “Currently there is no national closure” that should be avoided “, while it is hypothesized that they could be” selective closures if there were particularly difficult situations. ” Beyond the measures, the minister stressed that “the key to trying to bend the curve is the behavior of people,” since 75% of infections come from family relationships or close personal relationships.

Territorial blockades in the Dpcm October 12

However, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s indication remains valid: there will not be a new national blockade, but a series of “selective and progressive” interventions to stop the growth of infections. The package that had to be approved before October 15, the date on which the current decree in force expires, ended up at the table of the Scientific Technical Committee in an urgent meeting called by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza precisely to meet with scientists and experts and to better define interventions.

The Ansa news agency details the terms of the reduction of the quarantine period from two weeks to 10 days: positives will no longer need the double negative buffer to get out of isolation, only one will be enough and it will be a circular from the general manager. of the Prevention of the Ministry of Health Giovanni Rezza to explain the new methods. The CTS has identified 4 different types of situations:

• asymptomatic positives,
• symptomatic positives,
• asymptomatic positives who cannot deny themselves
• close contacts

The first must observe 10 days of quarantine, from the diagnosis of positivity, and then undergo a molecular swab; even symptomatic patients will have to do 10 days of isolation, but before undergoing the single molecular swab provided they have spent at least 3 days without symptoms. For close contacts, after 10 days of quarantine, it will be possible to carry out the rapid test by general practitioners.

Smart work and fit in public transport in the new Dpcm

The acronym Dpcm indicates a decree of the president of the Council of Ministers, or an administrative act issued by the head of government in the exercise of his functions. The Dpcm – approved on several occasions in our country since the start of the coronavirus health emergency – is considered an act on which it is up to the prefects to monitor compliance with the measures adopted, being able to use -among other things- both the forces of order, both from the armed forces.

The messenger explains today that the decision to take the smartworking of public employees up to 70% seems destined to provoke a strong controversy. According to a recent survey of 3,000 companies belonging to Confartigianato, 69% of micro and small companies complain of great difficulties in accessing public services managed with smart working. “The critical problems reported by small businesses in our survey – underlined Giorgio Merletti, president of Confartigianato al Sole 24Ore – show that the Palestinian Authority must reorganize itself to allow public employees to perform their functions efficiently, while operating in smart work. It is not tolerable that, in addition to the difficulties of the crisis, employers also have problems of access to public services.

Finally, there is the increase in controls on public transport. The Corriere della Sera explains that the government, on this point so discussed in recent days, could decide on the one hand to relax the provisions on the capacity of high-speed trains (exceeding the 50 percent limit currently in force) and on the other it could strengthen controls to enforce capacity limits (at 80 percent) on buses, metro and regional trains, in order to maintain the distance between passengers.