The restrictions The restrictions will be those already prepared in the week of Christmas, from 24 to 27 December, with the prohibition of travel except to visit friends or relatives, in a maximum of two people (and any children under 14 or disabled people) and one only once a day. Always paying attention to the absolute prohibition of moving during curfew hours, that is, starting at 10 pm, if not for proven work, health or necessity and urgency needs. With particular attention to the New Year’s Eve when the curfew was extended until 7. Offenders risk fines that can range from 400 to 1,000 euros. A maximum of two non-cohabiting people can be accommodated in the house, always excluding children under 14. Controls also prepared to verify compliance with the anti-barrels and fireworks regulations, provided for in many cities, from Bologna to Palermo, to Naples, to Rome. But New Year’s restrictions may not be the latest for Italians.
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Conte: “The measures are needed to avoid a third wave” The colored bands – as premier Giuseppe Conte confirmed in the conference at the end of the year – will still remain, especially to avert a third potential wave of Covid. “We just have to understand – said the prime minister – if the variants, such as the English one, which have a higher rate of contagiousness, will require us to update our measures. Otherwise, the system by bands with monitoring is absolutely adequate. also for the third wave “.
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Ski resorts, opening further away Meanwhile, in view of January 7 – and therefore of a cautious recovery – there are several activities that ask for clarity on the future. The hypothesis of the reopening of the ski resorts seems to be over, which, on the recommendation of the president of the Conference of the Regions, Stefano Bonaccini, could be postponed to January 18. A decision that, in all likelihood, will only be made in the first ten days of the new year. In any case, an appeal to the government has been made from Valle d’Aosta to keep the attention on mountain areas high. Some regions, then, are thinking of changing the date of the winter sales, which traditionally take place in the first days of the year, in consideration of the last days of the red zone.
Vaccini, Locatelli: “No delay” On the subject of vaccines, the president of the Higher Health Council, Franco Locatelli. he explained that “at the moment there is no alarm signal regarding an extension of the times for the anti-Covid vaccination campaign in Italy”. The Paesea, in fact, “is trying to acquire additional doses from other platforms, but always through the European mechanism for the acquisition of vaccines”, he specified.
Arcuri: “The arrival of new doses this week” To date, 9,803 Italians have been vaccinated with the doses that arrived on December 27 on “Vaccine Day”. This was announced by the extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency, Domenico Arcuri. This is “over 100% of the 9,750 doses distributed, since, in some Regions, the sixth dose for each vial has begun to be administered”. The delivery of the 469,950 doses scheduled for this week will be completed by Thursday.
Ricciardi: “The restrictive measures remain for the whole of 2021” The start of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign “does not mean that our behavior will change with respect to protection from the virus: for the whole of 2021 the measures will remain the same as now, from physical distancing to masks and hand hygiene”. This was stated by Walter Ricciardi, advisor to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza. “But with vaccinations we will begin to have fewer deaths and fewer sick and this reassures everyone,” he added.
“Able to vaccinate 50% of Italians in the first months of 2021” Regarding vaccines, Ricciardi underlined: “For the moment we are able to vaccinate about half of Italians, or about 20 million, in the first 6 months of 2021”. The postponement of the planned doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine “will in fact be offset by further Pfizer doses. Of the 100 million additional Pfizer doses optioned by the EU – he notes – 13.4 million will go to Italy”.
Lombardy, over 25 thousand dead Meanwhile, Lombardy records a sad balance: the Region in fact exceeds the threshold of 25 thousand positive deaths at Covid. The last 80 people died on December 30, reaching 25,038.
Iss: “Incidence still high, we need rigor” The tile on the budget also comes from the Higher Institute of Health in the weekly monitoring. The dossier notes that “although there has been a decrease in the incidence at national level in the last 14 days (305.47 per 100,000 inhabitants vs 329.53 per 100,000), overall it still remains very high and the impact of the epidemic is still in most of the country. In addition, a moderate or high risk of an uncontrolled and unmanageable epidemic continues to be observed in most regions. This confirms the need to “maintain the strictness of the holiday period measures” .
“Rt index slightly up” In the period 8-21 December 2020, the ISS records, the average transmissibility index Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was equal to 0.93 (range 0.89 – 1.02), slightly increasing in the last three weeks.
Germany, towards the extension of the lockdown In Germany, the lockdown, which expires on January 10, could be extended for another two or three weeks. The Bild writes online, giving news of the plan on which Angela Merkel and the Laender presidents ministers are working, in view of the summit on 5 January. According to these rumors, everything would remain closed until 24 or even 31 January. There is great disagreement between the regions on schools.
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