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“A different and more sober Christmas, in which we will have to avoid movements that are not essential”: the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in ‘Che tempo che fa’ anticipates the new rules that are coming for December 3, when celebrate the last Dpcm of the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and one or two new ministerial decrees will be finalized that will allow the opening of stores before the holidays and then everything will close again around Christmas Eve. The novelty with respect to what has been said in recent days is that for the minister the movements between regions for Christmas, “for the model we use, they can only occur if all the regions go to the yellow zone but at this time we must avoid all movements that are not necessary. We must plan vacations carefully. ”
The rules of Christmas 2020: stop moving between regions and municipalities
And the planning of which he speaks is being studied in the Palazzo Chigi, but it is already clear that in the Dpcm scheduled for December 4 (which could remain in force until Epiphany) there will be more restrictions. With stricter rules than imagined so far: the curfew will be relaxed only for Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinner, there is the idea of banning dinners and long parties, movements will be possible only to reach relatives, as opposed to what Leaked in recent days, bars and restaurants will not reopen after 6pm and requests from governors to reopen the ski lifts with a new safety protocol will likely be disappointed. The regions will turn yellow but will have more restrictions than at present.
All this while the Civil Protection bulletin registers 28,337 new cases in the last 24 hours – six thousand less than yesterday – but in the presence of a smaller number of tampons, almost 189 thousand 48 thousand less on Saturday. And the ratio between identified positives and analyzes carried out has risen half a point and stands at 15%. The number of victims is also affected by the reduction in tests (562 in one day, 130 less) while the number of hospital beds is once again worrying: after yesterday’s decrease, with only 10 hospitalizations, patients in intensive care units grew again by 43 units for a total that exceeded 3,800 and is getting closer and closer to the all-time high of 4,068 reached on April 3. In ordinary rooms the increase is instead of 216, more than double compared to the previous 24 hours, for a total of 34,279.
But the government wants to try to safeguard the economy of the Christmas period and for this reason it is studying the possibility of extending the opening hours of stores, including shopping centers that are currently closed on weekends and holidays, restricting entries especially in larger structures. . A measure that may not be enough. “To avoid the Christmas shopping meeting – CTS coordinator Agostino Miozzo told the Ansa news agency yesterday – rigorous monitoring will be necessary. And severe sanctions”. Otherwise, it is the conclusion of the scientists, “everything jumps and in January we are with the third wave” of the virus. So here is the idea of a plan to improve controls by the police and the army.
Christmas 2020: dinners and parties prohibited at the Dpcm December 4
In government, therefore, the hard line wins, currently represented by Minister Speranza but also by the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini and by Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri. Faced with the progress of recent days, the opening of bars and restaurants starting at 6 in the afternoon is being rethought, the limitation to dinners, balls and varied bingo while the curfew could be suspended only on the night of the 24th of December to allow midnight mass. Corriere della Sera today summarizes the other points that the government is studying:
- the opening hours of the stores could be extended until 10 pm to allow diluting the influx of people especially in the days before the holidays;
- The reopening of shopping centers on weekends and holidays is also being considered;
- travel exceptions will only apply to family members who live in different places, but there is a reasoning around the possibility of limiting trips that are not justified for reasons of family reunification, to avoid travel;
- for the curfew, an extension is studied at 11 pm on the days before Christmas and after 12 at night only on Christmas day to allow participation in religious celebrations;
- Ski slopes will also be prohibited in the yellow zones.
Also for the reopening of trade, the precautionary line leads to advance step by step, maintaining the limitations until mid-December, and then loosening the grip, moving the curfew a few hours. As of December 4, possible stores open until 10 p.m. for shopping, bars and restaurants and shopping centers open on weekends, while the cashback plan with incentives for electronic purchases will begin in December in order to favor payments. more secure and proximity stores (online purchases are excluded from the benefits).
All yellow regions but with restrictions and not to the white week
In this perspective, explains Repubblica, the government, in the river meeting on Friday, and in these hours facing the meeting with the Regions today in Calabria, has imagined a road map: all regions would turn yellow with a series of more restrictive. And the possibility of tightening the measures province by province. Transfers between regions are prohibited, so a new Dpcm will have to be issued, as well as “opportunities for expanded social relations, or rather bingo, celebrations and dances.”
The biggest news, however, concerns the holidays: there is no Christmas in the snow. The tracks could remain substantially closed. In these hours -explain the sources of Chigi to the newspaper- the Government works in a European initiative to avoid the habitual “holidays in the snow”, that attract the lovers of the ski and the stays in the mountain, would be paired with vacations without concerns. , with evenings at the disco, last summer. “The idea, Repubblica concludes, is to allow the opening at the end of January, if the numbers clearly remain under control, with the arrival of the vaccine.
Meanwhile Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the Technical Scientific Committee for the coronavirus emergency, expresses his fears about the postponement of the reopening of the school. In an interview with the Corriere della Sera, he affirms that “if during the holidays we have moments similar to those experienced last summer, the evolution of the epidemic will lead to data similar or even worse than the current ones. It means that schools are at risk of being closed for more weeks. We will have a generation of high school students who will pass the state exam in June having lost physical contact with the school universe for almost a year. It is immeasurable damage. ” “On November 20 – says Miozzo – after the videoconference with the regional director of the WHO Copenhagen, UNESCO and Who Geneva, we share the need for children to return to school in presence as soon as possible. The data tells us that the School-age infections are not significantly different from those of other age groups and we have no evidence to understand whether they occurred at school or outside. I would like to remind you that on March 4, the CTS requested the government to close schools following the instructions from the community. International science, but at that time we did not have the rules in force. And so we did not underestimate the role of teachers, the only ones who could make children understand the potential risk they represent for their families. , a particularly difficult message to convey. ”
