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What can we do at Christmas? Can we leave and go home? Will stores, malls and restaurants reopen? Will we be able to travel to see family and friends? There are still many questions to be resolved about the anti-Covid rules for the end of the year holidays.
Today November 26 expected decision from the Minister of Health who, together with the Regions and the Government, will draw up the guidelines for the Christmas holidays and will begin to shed light on the new measures in force with the next Dpcm. In the afternoon, the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, convened the Regions, the Anci and the UPI; Speranza, the commissioner for the Arcuri emergency and the head of Civil Protection Borrelli will also participate in the meeting.
Pending officiality, progress in how will we spend christmas and new year and there is no shortage of new measures that arrive. We take stock of the situation in curfew hours, trips, opening of stores and family gatherings for lunches and dinners.
Christmas rules 2020: what can be done
According to the advances on the Christmas regulations filtered so far, at Christmas we will be able to reconnect with our loved ones, buy in stores and exchange gifts; The possibility of going to church for the traditional must be confirmed. Mass of Christmas and it is likely that on the night of December 24 and 31 we can stay out after 22:00. It also seems safe that we can get out of our region (Only?) To return home and for reasons of family reunification.
According to Conte’s premises, we can have family dinners and lunches, even if only with close family members. Germany has announced that they will be allowed meet up to 10 people for the holidays, but we haven’t made a decision yet.
And the hypothesis of 6-8 people at the table for Christmas lunch and dinner, but it’s all to see. The prime minister said, effectively, that a maximum number of people who can sit at the table will not be imposed, also because it would be impossible to control what people do in their homes. “A free and democratic state cannot enter the houses and say how many people sit at the table” said the prime minister.
Therefore, it will depend on everyone’s common sense to try to restrict the number of guests to limit the opportunities for contagion. For the same reason, all coexistence and sociability situations typical of the Christmas period are strongly discouraged, from parties to buttonar with friends.
Italy may be looking at what is happening in Europe and following the example of France, where the stop curfew during the Christmas and New Years holidays and where non-essential stores could reopen on December 1.
What can not be done at Christmas and New Years.
- To go skiing
- Party and bingo
- Organize the party
- Make New Years Eve in the square
- Go to other regions for no reason
Nothing events in the square and in other places of aggregation; you will not be allowed to organize balls not even at home.
Travel and holidays in the mountains are in the government’s sights. Nothing White week This year, there are no high-altitude escapes for skiing, at least not in Italy. Palazzo Chigi has not accepted requests from mountain regions to reopen the ski lifts and start the ski season “safely”, on the contrary, it is studying a European plan together with France and Germany to block snow vacation. In the meantime, however, while the ski resorts are open only to professionals, amateur skiers and tourists can go to switzerland, a few kilometers from the border, where the winter season will not stop despite infections.
Travel in Italy and abroad
The knot of travel remains to be untied: can you travel on vacation? It can be possible go back home or go to another region for tourism? And abroad?
Health Minister Speranza had said that the movements between regions for Christmas 2020 and New Years You can pass “Only if all regions went into the yellow zone, but at this time we must avoid all movements that are not necessary”.
Conte also chimed in at this point, saying that “We are working on moving between regions at Christmas, but if we continue like this at the end of the month we will no longer have red zones. The Christmas period requires ad hoc measures, otherwise we run the risk of a repeat in mid-August and we cannot afford “. According to these statements, it is possible that Christmas outings to other regions are only allowed if for reasons of need and family reunification, it is justified with a specific self-certification.
The Undersecretary of Health Zampa clarified that you can go to second homes, but only if it is in the yellow zone.
With respect to travel abroad for christmas, Conte said: “We are taking care to avoid cross-border transfers, avoiding that if you go abroad you can return without any control”. Among the restrictive measures the government is considering for Christmas, therefore, more checks for those returning from abroad, perhaps even with a two-week quarantine upon his return.
Shops and restaurants
Will be allowed fare purchases for Christmas shopping (consider an extension of opening hours and the reopening of department stores and shopping centers on weekends), and exchange gifts (but without kisses and hugs).
Can we go to the restaurant? Maybe. The reopening of restaurants at Christmas, expected by many, is one of the measures that will be contained in the new Dpcm December 3. Restaurants and bars can reopen for dinner, but with a maximum of 4 people per table. It is not yet clear if the restrictions will be relaxed only in the yellow areas or if ad hoc distinctions will be made between the regions, given that the hypothesis of inserting Italy into a macro yellow area in December is taking shape.
