Covid: half of Italy in the red zone, no travel until April 30th

Covid emergency: no travel, Italy remains closed until May. Furthermore, from Monday more than half of the country will be in the red zone, with Calabria, Tuscany and Valle d'Aosta being added to the 7 regions and the autonomous province of Trento where the toughest restrictions are already in force. Instead, Lazio is back in orange.

The government therefore confirms the line of maximum rigor even after Easter. Until April 30, therefore, no movement between regions, shutters still lowered for bars and restaurants. Reopening of gyms, swimming pools, cinemas e theaters at a date to be determined; yellow zone cleared until the end of the month.

No travel until April 30 but schools reopen

 Immediately after the Easter holidays, 5,3 million students will attend the lessons in the presence a school. They are 62,3 percent (six out of ten) of the 8,5 million pupils. Attendance will return up to sixth grade in the red areas, while all students up to eighth grade will be in the classroom in the orange ones. High school students will return to the classroom at 50 percent.

Today's data

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health makes it known that, in the last 24 hours in Italy, 23.839 new positive cases have been registered for a total of 3.512.453 since the outbreak of the pandemic. Yesterday there were 23.987. The new deaths 380 (457 yesterday), For a total of 107.636 since the beginning of the health emergency. The discharged healed are 18.287 (yesterday 19.764). Currently the positive cases are altogether 571.878, 5.167 more cases than yesterday. Also in the last 24 hours they were carried out 357.154 the molecular and antigenic swabs (yesterday 354.952). In intensive care there are 3.635 patients hospitalized for Covid; in home isolation they remain 539.622 people infected with the virus.