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Published on: 01/09/2021 00:03
Orange zone today and tomorrow: stricter rules and measures throughout Italy for trips, bars, restaurants on the weekend of 9 and 10 January according to the new Covid decree. After two days in the yellow zone, here is the squeeze for the weekend. As is now established practice, the curfew starts at 10 pm and lasts until 5 am. If not for reasons of work, necessity and health, travel outside the municipality and between regions is prohibited. “In any case, travel from municipalities with a population of up to 5,000 inhabitants, within 30 kilometers of their borders, will be allowed on the same days, with the exception of travel to the provincial capitals”, the decree provides. Bars and restaurants must be limited to take-away and home delivery, closing for shopping centers. Food shops, pharmacies, parapharmacies, tobacconists and newsagents remain open, even within the same shopping centers.
The weekend in the orange zone is a prologue for 5 regions. Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Sicily and Veneto will not change color on Monday, as established by the order of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza which will come into force tomorrow. “We must keep the highest level of attention because the virus circulates a lot and the contagion index is growing”, tweeted the minister announcing the signature. The ordinance, signed on a day characterized by 17,533 infections and 620 deaths, is the result of the analysis conducted on the data of the weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health (Iss) – Ministry of Health, relating to the period 28 December 2020 – 3 January 2021: “Calabria, Emilia Romagna and Lombardy “have” a punctual Rt significantly higher than 1, another 6 exceeds it in the average value (Liguria, Molise, Sardinia, Sicily, Umbria, Valle d’Aosta), another 4 have an equal value, Puglia, or close to it, Lazio, Piedmont, Veneto “. Veneto, finally, “it shows a particularly high incidence rate, compared to the national context”. Between 15 and 28 December, the document highlights, “the average Rt calculated on symptomatic cases was 1.03, increasing for four weeks and for the first time, after six weeks, above one “. The report” shows a general worsening of the epidemiological situation in the country. The national incidence at 14 days returns to increase after a few weeks of decrease, the impact of the pandemic on welfare services also increases and this translates into a general increase in risk “.” There is a worsening of the general epidemiological situation in the country and increases the impact on care services. This scenario implies the utmost caution “, said Silvio Brusaferro, president of the National Institute of Health (Iss). The data, according to the report, show that the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy “is in a delicate phase that seems to herald a new rapid increase in the number of cases in the coming weeks, if no measures are strictly defined and implemented. more stringent mitigation “.
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