Fifty shades of orange. Because even on the day in which the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza formally, after the usual monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health, fixed appointment on Friday, will have to formalize by ordinance the exit of Lombardy from the red zone, the certain date on the calendar of when the measure will actually be applied in the territory is still missing. A decision for which many shopkeepers, with Christmas on the horizon, have put the alarm clock on the bedside table. For the transition from virtual to real orange, it is very close, but on that distance that yesterday seriously risked breaking the dialogue between the government and the Region.
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Minister Speranza, essentially to avoid a pre-Christmas shopping rush in the first weekend of (partial) reopening, calls for the new measures to be applied from 3 December, but on the point he finds the wall of the governor Attilio Fontana, lined up with the front of the Lombard mayors compact after the round table a few hours earlier. From right to left they wonder why to wait any longer after the three weeks of stabilization of the data and parameters. The volume goes up: So people wouldn’t understand anything anymore. It would be a measure to this against Lombardy, the replicas that mature in no particular order.
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There is talk of a few days away, but it is clear that the issue takes on political connotations. Anger mounts at the Pirellone for a decision that would not take into account the efforts made in a region where restrictive measures had already been adopted with an ordinance prior to the Prime Minister’s signature. The phone seems to be losing all its wires. Instead, before the case explodes completely, Minister Speranza picks up the handset and extends his hand. I defended the model of the three colors on entry and I also defend it on exit, so after 14 days with data in a lower risk range, Lombardy and Piedmont have the right to leave the red zone – explains the minister -. To Fontana and Cirio I said with absolute serenity that it would be wise to take an extra three or four days to get the model to settle, but if they want to go out they can do it.
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Friendly telephone call, we promise a meeting point in a short time, however, after the control room in the late morning of today will have unrolled the updated monitoring data. From Pirellone they take the opening: I have just had a frank confrontation with Speranza – explains Fontana -. We both agree that Lombardy has all the requisites to go from the red to the orange band. We are committed to finding the right date as soon as possible to ease the restrictive measures. We talked to each other without political tactics or retro-thoughts, but with the sole intention of making the common good prevail for our citizens. Both with regard to their health and with regard to the economic situation, says the Lombard governor, also comforted by the health bulletin of the day which confirms the consolidation of the decline in hospitalizations, with the easing of the pressure on hospitals both in resuscitation and in the other departments. And with the Rt of Milan now steadily below 1, therefore in a regressive phase. Only a few weeks ago it was feared that the metropolis could become the most impregnable of hotbeds.
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November 26, 2020 (change November 26, 2020 | 23:58)
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