Like every Friday today, Italy changes color and the race of Covid and the variants that alarm scientists trigger the orange in other regions, closing bars and restaurants and still limiting the mobility of citizens. The band passes take place as always on the basis of monitoring data, but behind the numbers and tables, the confrontation between the government and the presidents of the regions takes place.
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Negotiation
Health Minister Roberto Speranza it adheres to rules and algorithms, yet open negotiations are made at the tables where the choices that impact people’s lives are made. The attempt by Mario Draghi’s executive – which could convene a summit on Covid today – to convince the governors of the poised regions to switch to orange, even if their territory is just below the threshold of RT 1, which triggers the change of band. The moral suasion on governors aims to prevent the regions in the yellow band, but with a high level of risk, from switching directly to red in a week: this is because the opening of bars and restaurants affects the trend of the epidemiological curve.
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The variants
The expansion of variants, which have already caused an expansion of the lockdown areas, does not stop, so much so that the Higher Institute of Health has launched a new survey to identify the places most at risk. Faced with the mutation of the virus, it is essential to understand what effects vaccines can have and above all to fine-tune the tracing system. Contacts with the ministers of Health Roberto Speranza and of Regional Affairs Mariastella Gelmini are constant, to convince the regions that have a Rt just below 1 to accept the orange band. Hitting the target will not be easy because most governorsi let you know the situation under control. Lombardy, Lazio, Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche, Campania and Emilia Romagna remain in the balance between yellow and orange. While Abruzzo, which is orange but has already locked down the provinces of Pescara and Chieti, seems destined to become red. President Marco Marsilio on the contrary, assures that the RT dropped from 1.22 to 1.17 and hopes nothing will change.
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Regions on the wire
The data released yesterday show that there are numerous areas on the wire. Despite this, the presidents try to resist, aware that the change of color determines heavy closures for commercial activities and public places. Attilio Fontana says it clearly, even in the awareness that the danger remains high: I really hope not to go orange, I hope so and I hope that this situation does not occur. Like every Friday we will discuss with the CTS. The Northern League governor asks the scientists to anticipate the decision because they received the data on Tuesday. Then the admission that the yellow band accelerates the climb of the curve: Unfortunately it is an established fact that with the closures the data improves, with the wider openings the data worsens.
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In Veneto, Luca Zaia explains Rt 0.78, not worrying, but we must be careful because it is growing slightly. We have an incidence of 3.13%, low, but in a few days we went from 1 to 3%: I say this to those who think it is time to celebrate with the “free all”. Lazio has communicated Rt at 0.95 and for this reason the councilor for health Alessio D’Amato thinks he can remain yellow. But the president Nicola Zingaretti worried and does not hide it: Even if we remain in the yellow zone, I still say attention.
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And in the yellow zone he hopes to remain also the president of Piedmont Alberto Cirio: The situation has not worsened, stable. The RT, albeit slightly increasing, still remains below 1, so the numbers are from Piedmont in the yellow zone. The verdict is up to the CTS, it is up to Rome.
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According to the vice president of Friuli Venezia Giulia Riccardo Riccardi, unless some definition parameter is changed in the classification, there are no reasons why with these numbers the region should go to an area other than the yellow one. The data arrived last night are all in reduction – he said – Rt has a lower peak of 0.74 having an average of 0.8 versus 0.94 last week.
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White area
The good news comes from the Aosta Valley, which could be the first region to enter the white zone. the happy island, the place where life could be truly normal, albeit with masks and spacing.
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February 19, 2021 (change February 19, 2021 | 07:59)
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