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From tomorrow, Thursday, December 31, until Wednesday, January 6, Italy is back Red zone and the prohibitions provided by the so-called “Christmas decree” come into force. Only on Monday, January 4, will it be the orange zone. As for travel, these are prohibited except for proven work, necessity or health requirements. However, two people (minors under 14 years old are excluded) are allowed to come only to one house per day within their region, according to the exceptions provided by the Christmas decree. However, self-certification is required. The valid self-declaration is the one published on the website of the Ministry of the Interior (you can download the form here) and that still has the date of October 2020, that of the last update. It should indicate that the offset is determined by:
- proven job needs;
- health reasons;
- other reasons admitted by current regulations or by decrees, ordinances and other measures mentioned above that define the measures to prevent the spread of infection.
This last point is the one that must be crossed out in the self-certification, adding the starting address and the destination address in the following lines but, for privacy reasons, not the name of the person you are going to visit. Attention: the government has made it clear in a faq published on the Palazzo Chigi website that the return home “after visiting friends or family must always take place between 5:00 and 22:00 (on January 1, 2021 between 7.00 am and 10.00 pm).), both on the “red” and “orange” days The reasons that justify the displacement between 10 pm and 5 am are exclusively for work, necessity or health.
Stores that remain open and closed in the red zone
In Red zone therefore, the ban on leaving from 22:00 to 05:00 is confirmed. The only exception is the night between December 31 and January 1, when the ban will extend until 7:00 a.m. During the red zone, restaurants, bars and patisseries are closed, but it remains It is possible to order at home or Take out before 10 pm Some stores may remain open: including grocery stores (hypermarkets, supermarkets, discount stores, convenience stores and other non-specialized stores selling various frozen foods). Activities such as pharmacies, computer and consumer electronics stores, computer equipment and telecommunications also remain open. Do not close for tobacconists, bookstores and kiosks. Gas stations are also open, as are barbers and hairdressers. You can go to other specialized stores such as children’s clothing, personal lingerie. Also open stores that sell pet supplies and pet food in specialty stores or hardware stores and those that sell paint and tile.
Sport outdoors and individually
As for sports, on red zone days it can only be done outdoors, individually and without the possibility of leaving the municipality itself. In any case, on red zone days, the difference applies in these cases between motor activity, which can only be carried out near the house (with a mask), and sports activity that can also be carried out in areas other than the of your house (without mask). Therefore, activities in sports centers are also suspended individually (such as tennis or paddle tennis) as well as activities in the gym, swimming pool, spa and wellness centers. The schedules established by the Dpcm also apply to sports and physical activity and therefore you can only leave from 5 to 22.
New Year’s Eve checks on trips and cars with more than two people
The Interior Ministry has ordered specific police checks for New Year’s Eve. Special attention will be paid to movements – according to the provisions of the last Dpcm, unnecessary ones are prohibited – and to the presence of more than two people on board in the cars. According to the first rumors gathered, the checks will focus on verifying reports of meetings in unauthorized private places, activities of premises apparently closed but open to private parties, in villas or in bed & breakfasts rented for the occasion, as well as the explosion of fires. Fireworks.
Therefore, there will be controls and as always in the viewer there are especially those who decide to move by car. Let’s briefly look at the things you need to know to travel. In private cars, unless traveling with people who live together, the passenger must first avoid occupying the available seat next to the driver. And in the rear seats there can be a maximum of two passengers, equipped with a mask. The obligation to wear protective equipment also applies to the driver. This was established by the Dpcm of December 3, 2020. The use of the mask is not mandatory only if the car is equipped with a suitable partition between the rows of seats.
How many people can travel in the same car?
On this point, the government clarified in the Faq (frequently asked questions) to the Dpcm of last November 3. The rules have not changed. Is it possible to use the car with people who do not live together? The answer is yes, as long as – we read – certain safety measures are respected “, that is, with the presence only of the driver in the front of the car and a maximum of two passengers for each additional row of rear seats, with the obligation for all passengers The obligation to wear the mask can be waived only in the case that the car is equipped with a physical separator (plexiglass) between the front and rear row of the car, allowing in this case the presence only of the driver in the front row and a single passenger for the rear row. ”
The decree, however, establishes a derogation for people who live in the same housing unit, “as well as between relatives and people who have stable interpersonal relationships.” But beware because the Dpcm itself establishes a valid exception precisely for people who live together and who therefore do not have to comply with the provisions listed above. That is, you can travel occupying all available seats without wearing a mask.
We must not lower our guard because, as experts and scientists explain, the risk of a third wave is always just around the corner. And the New Year “runs the risk of being even more dangerous than Christmas.” So on Twitter Giacomo Gorini, an Italian immunologist who works at the Jenner Institute of the University of Oxford, who is experimenting with the anti-covid vaccine developed with Irbm from Pomezia and produced by AstraZeneca. “At Christmas we met people who until then had followed their usual routine. On New Year’s Eve – warns Gorini, a student of Roberto Burioni – the people they met mingled with family and friends 6 days before. Attention”.
Exceptions to travel on days in the red zone
Even on days when the red zone is in effect, it will be possible to use the derogation to travel and visit friends and family (as happened at Christmas, for up to two people). On the orange and red days – essentially until January 6 – it will be possible to take the car to go shopping to another municipality – but only in certain cases – or to visit friends and family who live in a municipality of the same region (in this case there should be no more than 2, but those under 14 are not counted). Even those who live in a municipality of up to 5,000 inhabitants can move freely as long as the movement takes place within a 30-kilometer radius, even in another region, with the explicit prohibition of traveling to the provincial capital.
Fines increased to a third if …
And the movements between regions? In this case, in addition to the reasons for work, health or need, the reason for returning home or residence is still valid. Only on January 6 will there be a green light to travel to the yellow zone regions. Finally, the fines: not everyone knows that the applicable penalty, from 400 to 1,000 euros, can be “possibly increased up to a third if the offense is caused by the use of a vehicle.” One more reason to respect the rules.
What happens in January?
The effects of decree law n. 158 on December 2 and the Dpcm on December 3, while on January 7 the restrictions of Christmas 2020 that brought Italy to the red and orange zone “stumbling” cease. What will happen next? What activities will be able to reopen and in what areas will the Italian regions be located? The government foresees the reopening of some activities in January, together with the decree law and the Dpcm that will replace those in force until the 15th. As for schools, there is already a date, January 7, for the resumption of attendance in attendance 50%. And just yesterday at the CTS meeting, experts from the Ministry of Health acquired the document from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the agency that monitors viruses, according to which the school is not a source of Covid outbreaks and the risks. they are less than the consequences of a prolonged shutdown.
Then there are the production activities: for bars and restaurants, the system of yellow, orange and red zones will remain in force and therefore stores will be able to open until 6 p.m. if they are in areas with fewer restrictions or they will only be able to take out and home delivery in other cases. But it will be necessary to evaluate the emergency numbers.
