Rome, February 18, 2021 – The weekly thrilling for the color change of regions. Tomorrow is the d-day of the control room, half of Italy is likely to end up in orange zone (rules here). But in full nightmare Covid variants, there are also those who, like the Valle d’Aosta, dreams of waking up in white area. The cards, or rather the numbers, seem to be there for the turning point. Will be once again Roberto Speranza, confirmed Minister of Health, to sign the new ordinances. According to the script of the past few weeks, whoever ends up in the orange or red zone should change from Sunday, the transition to yellow (and perhaps white) could take place on Monday. Meanwhile, the first ones arrive Covid data today. And they are not comforting: after a month, the infections in Veneto rise again, back above 1,000. Worrying figures also in Tuscany. Both regions, however, don’t seem to be about to change color.
The regions at risk
Umbria and Abruzzo, where the variants have been found (not only the English one), could end up in the red zone. Five regions are at risk orange zone: Emilia-Romagna it seems projected towards a change of color, as anticipated by the governor Stefano Bonaccini to our newspaper in recent days. In the balance the Lombardy which risks paying the performance of the Coronavirus in the Milanese area, where l‘indice Rt travel above 1. The feeling is that the Region still has some chance of remaining in the yellow zone, even if the data, albeit slightly, would indicate the passage of the band. In short, we dance on decimals. The move to timely institute the micro red areas it is a signal that Lombardy has sent to Rome and to Speranza: should it not change color, Fontana is ready to intervene, with hardness, where necessary. Even all over Milan. There are also under observation Piedmont, Friuli Venezia and Giulia and Lazio, whose landing in orange is currently more no than yes. “Our numbers are from the yellow zone, the situation is stable”, the Piedmontese governor Alberto Cirio reiterated this morning. “Unless some parameters are changed, I don’t see why we should go to a different area with these numbers”, the words of the vice president of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Riccardo Riccardi. Finally, there would be the risk of color change Valle d’Aosta, with data from the white area. A hope, more than a fear.
Market
The region should remain in the yellow zone, despite the certainty of the circulation of the English variant of Coronavirus in five municipalities of the Fabrianese (Ancona), but also strong suspicions on the presence of the Brazilian strain, more resistant to vaccines
Tuscany
The immediate closure of all schools of all levels in Monteroni d’Arbia, a town a few kilometers from Siena, was decided by the mayor Gabriele Berni, following the presence of cases of positivity to the Brazilian variant of the Coronavirus.
South Tyrol
More stringent measures are being adopted throughout South Tyrol to contain the spread of the South African variant of Covid-19. Even stricter restrictions will be applied in the four municipalities where the presence of the strain was detected
The Covid variants
Not only the English one, considered the most aggressive, but also the Brazilian and South African ones: the variants of the Coronavirus are circulating in Italy. The words of the virolgo Crisanti weigh like a boulder: “If there are areas with the Brazilian variant, everything must be blocked – he said -. The red areas are not enough, if there are outbreaks with the Brazilian or South African variant. If these variants spread. , we have eliminated the vaccine weapon “. The risk, warned Crisanti, is that of being in March with “40 thousand cases a day”.
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