Lombardy returns to orange on Monday. All the rules and restrictions

PAVIA. From Monday, Lombardy returns to the orange zone, but the regional president Attilio Fontana asks the Draghi government to change the method to avoid the weekly push and pull of closures and reopening. “Enough of this weekly dripping, we need more certainties for citizens and economic activities” says Fontana.

The most obvious restriction will be the closure, even at lunchtime, of bars and restaurants that will no longer be able to serve at the table, but only take away. The decision was made yesterday by the national control room on the Covid emergency and ratified by the Ministry of Health. The spread of contagion index, the now famous Rt, weighs not so much, down in Lombardy to 0.82. As for the trend, detected by scientists, to a worsening of the situation in the coming days given the escalation of infections in the last few hours. An increase in infections which also led to a 29% filling rate in the Lombard intensive care units: the alarm threshold is 30%.

Lombardy, after three weeks in the yellow zone, returns to orange as it already happened in January and December. Even Piedmont and the Marches deteriorate in color and become orange. Basilicata and Molise become red. Liguria returns to yellow, except for the Sanremo area.

“We take note of the decision, but the time has come for technicians and scientists to study and then tell us in a clear and definite way how to overcome this weekly dripping through stable and safe rules. The scientific information is now there – explains the Lombard governor Fontana -. For months now, the inevitable picture of fluctuations in openings and closings has been expected on Friday for activities that are not only economic. I have been insisting on one point in my conversation with the government for months: we know very well what are the non-dangerous behaviors and those compatible with the various social and economic activities. I therefore hope that work will be done on this by finding a balance between the need to guarantee health security and the stability of the economic system on the one hand ”.

Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini, leader of the League and therefore of a central government force, asks to speed up vaccines “to get out of this situation as soon as possible, Lombardy still has an Rt of less than 1 and 416 places out of 1,500 employed in intensive care” .

The return to the orange zone from Monday will bring economic damage to 3 thousand bars and restaurants in the province of Pavia that will have to close the daytime table service. Instead, limited mobility for all 545,000 residents in the province. You will be able to move freely in your municipality, but only for reasons of urgency, work and health outside the municipality. The derogation remains for the 162 provincial centers under 5 thousand inhabitants: you can move within 30 kilometers, even outside the region but without going to a provincial capital. –

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