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The decree, signed by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, valid for 30 days, prohibits bars and restaurants from serving and serving alcoholic beverages to customers who are not seated after 9:00 p.m. These establishments must close at midnight.
The document prohibits parties and celebrations in outdoor spaces and also indoors, limiting the number of guests at home to six.
Italy recorded 4,619 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, a record since April, but one that appears to be stabilized and much lower than the pollution rates seen, for example, in France or Spain.
The country is trying to avoid a new general closure like the one in the spring, which hampered the activity of the third largest economy in the euro zone.
The decree was negotiated with the regions, directly responsible for health management, but the head of government did not rule out the adoption of even more coercive measures in the future if the situation continues to worsen.
All contact sports that are not organized by an association that can maintain the distance rules are also prohibited. Weddings and baptisms cannot accommodate more than 30 people.
Since last week, the use of a mask, already highly respected, has become mandatory across the country, including in outdoor spaces.
At the same time, Italy has also relaxed its health protocol linked to the quarantine of contact cases and the isolation of positive cases.
So far, in the case of a positive test, the rule was to impose 14 days of isolation and two negative tests at the end of that period to be able to leave the house.
Now the quarantine will be ten days and a single negative test will be enough to establish that a person is cured.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million seventy-seven thousand deaths and more than 37.5 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,094 people died out of 87,913 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
