Care Italy. This is the name of the decree launched by the Conte government to support businesses and families struggling with the economic crisis caused by the emergency Coronavirus. The decree provides for a real economic maneuver worth 25 billion. "It is a powerful economic maneuver - said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte - we have not thought and we do not think of fighting a flood with rags".
We are trying to build a dam to protect businesses, families and workers. We can speak of an Italian model not only for the contrast strategy but also of an Italian model for the economic response strategy to the Coronavirus epidemic ".
Cura Italia, new resources for health and civil protection
The decree primarily contains measures for health: 1,15 billion and 1,5 billion for civil protection. Funds are provided for overtime for doctors and nurses who are the real heroes of this historical period marked by the pandemic. The “Cura Italia” decree allows prefects to requisition hospitals and other facilities for people in quarantine.
In addition, the government provision gives the possibility to the Civil Protection and the new extraordinary commissioner for the health emergency, to requisition structures and means to strengthen the hospital departments. The commissioner, Dominic Arcuri, will be able to face the great shortage of masks and other intensive care equipment also by starting new production lines.
Support for the production world, Cura Italia benefits
The Cura Italia decree also aims to support companies that have necessarily had to stop due to the health emergency. But there is no lack of measures in favor of the productive realities that are continuing to work and guarantee essential goods and services to the community. All the companies they will be able to take advantage of nine weeks of layoffs in derogation.
As established in the decree, mortgages are suspended for up to 18 months for all those who are in economic difficulty. A 200 million “last resort” fund was created to help those who had earned less than 2019 thousand euros in 10 and now, again due to the health emergency, it has had to stop. Anyone who is working in this month of March will have a bonus of 100 euros.
Conte: "Nobody should feel abandoned"
For families with children at home there are special leave, paid 50 percent for up to 15 days. Or alternatively, there is a 600 euro baby sitter bonus; a figure that reaches up to one thousand euros for doctors and health technicians. The executive also took into account ad hoc measures for taxi drivers and postmen.
There is also no shortage of resources to support publishing as well as reimbursements for shows. “The government - remarked the Prime Minister Conte - is close to businesses, professionals, families, to all those who are making enormous sacrifices to protect the highest good. Nobody should feel abandoned and this decree proves it. Italy promotes a message to all the institutions of the European Union".
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