Armored Christmas according to government regulations. Restaurants closed on December 25th and for Boxing Day, curfew at 22pm even on New Year's Eve. The Christmas of Covid takes shape with regard to the new Prime Minister's Office. At the end of a river summit of the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte with the majority heads of delegation, the line of those who want to lock up Christmas seems to prevail, to limit the risks of the third wave.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has registered in the last 24 hours 26.323 new infections compared to yesterday's 28.352. The new deaths are 686 (yesterday they were 827) while the discharged healed are 720.861 compared to 696.647 yesterday. The swabs always carried out in the last 24 hours are 225.940 compared to 222.803, while there are 3.762 hospitalized in intensive care (20 less than yesterday). Definitely comforting data!
Armored Christmas
And so the new provisions should be these: movement between regions for residents only. Bars and restaurants close at 18pm, extended hours for shops to avoid crowds but with a strict curfew at 22pm, even on the eve of Christmas and New Year. These are the salient points that the government is discussing and which would also include the proposal to introduce one 15-day quarantine for those returning from abroad during the Christmas period.
School: distance or face-to-face teaching?
As far as school activity is concerned, the orientation of those who would like to bring high schools back to class from January seems to prevail. Instead, it has been decided that the Dpcm, which will be in force from 4 December, will confirm the division of the country into three zones: red, orange and yellow. What is certain is that, if the contagion curve continues its trend, all of Italy will be yellow in mid-December. In fact, it is on the rules for the yellow regions that the government's work is concentrating, while all restrictions remain for the red and orange ones. Limitations ranging from closures to bars and restaurants, to those of the shops in the red areas.
For restaurants, the closure should remain from 18 pm and the block should become total at Christmas and Boxing day. The shops will be able to remain open until 21 pm or even later, as long as they are able to respect and enforce the obligation of curfew at 22 pm. As for the knot of travel, a discussion is still underway. The basic rule should be to prohibit moving even between yellow regions starting from a certain date to be defined. However, there are those who push for freedom of movement for those who have a domicile in a region other than that of residence and for family reunification.
