The demonstrations in Naples – Two protests in Naples shortly after the announcement of the “red zone”. At the intersection between Cesario Console and via Nazario Sauro, around two hundred demonstrators from the market sector blocked car traffic, protesting in the middle of the road with a banner “We will never stop”. The markets ask for refreshments for their firm work. In Piazza Municipio the movement of unemployed 7 November protests over the now stopped labor policies, and on the need to resort to a patrimonial to guarantee social safety nets and refreshments.
Hope: “Sacrifices, but it’s the only way” “I know that we are still asking for sacrifices, but there is no other way if we want to reduce the number of deaths, limit contagion and avoid unbearable pressure on our health networks. We will do it. But everyone’s contribution is essential”. This is what Minister Speranza underlined on Facebook, announcing that he had signed the new ordinance.
The measures provided for by Conte’s Dpcm – But the anti-covid measures had been announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte himself who had illustrated the possible measures against the coronavirus, contained in the Dpcm valid from Friday 6 November until 3 December: “The Italian regions are divided into yellow, orange and red” – the Prime Minister said, adding: “The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, has adopted the ordinance which identifies three zones – yellow, orange, red – each with its own restrictive measures”. And with that ordinance, Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Val d’Aosta had become the first three red zone regions. In these three regions it was immediately forbidden to move, even within one’s own municipality, at any time, except for reasons of work, necessity and health. also travel from one Region to another and from one Municipality to another, as well as all other restrictive measures relating to schools, shops, sports centers, bars and restaurants.
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Then there were the regions of the yellow band, considered with a moderate level of risk: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Molise, Marche, Province of Trento and Bolzano, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto. For these regions, it is forbidden to circulate from 10pm to 5am, unless there are proven reasons for work, necessity and health. Closing of shopping centers on holidays and the day before holidays with the exception of pharmacies, parapharmacies, food outlets, tobacconists and newsagents inside them. Closing of museums and exhibitions. Distance learning for high schools, except for students with disabilities and in case of use of laboratories; face-to-face teaching for kindergartens, elementary schools and middle schools.
Just 5 days pass and on Wednesday 11 November everything changes, or almost everything. Italy becomes more and more orange zone. The same Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, on the basis of the data processed by the Control Room, signs a new ordinance for the next 14 days which decrees the transition from the yellow to the orange area of 5 Regions: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Liguria, Tuscany and Umbria , while confirming the red zone for the province of Bolzano. The situation in the Campania region remains special, which risks going directly from the yellow to the red area, given that the spread of infections continues to worsen with an Rt index of about 1.7. With the latest changes, Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta remain in the red zone and the orange regions become seven: in addition to the five “new” ones, there are Puglia and Sicily. The others, including Campania, remain yellow areas.
A little while ago, yet another decision, a few days later: Campania and Tuscany become red areas and the map of Italy changes again. While doctors continue to argue that “We need a national lockdown”, because the coronavirus continues to run fast in all regions, ambulances have returned to crowd the entrance to the emergency rooms and hospitals are collapsing, with consequences that now seem take us back in time to last spring. The peak of the infection, according to experts, is scheduled for next November 27.
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