It will be an Italy almost completely in yellow the one represented in the Covid map starting today. In fact, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, on the basis of the data and indications of the Control Room of last May 14, 2021, signed a new ordinance that brings the Regions of Sicily and Sardinia to the yellow zone. The only “chromatic variation” will be represented by the Aosta Valley, which even having yellow numbers must remain in the orange zone according to the order signed on Friday 7 May by the minister.
Overall, therefore, the distribution of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces in the different areas based on the risk levels starting from today is the following: yellow zone for Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Autonomous Province of Trento, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto; Valle d’Aosta orange zone.
This is a result that comes after 5 months and which will lead to important reopening even in the only regions that have remained with stricter restrictive measures so far. In these areas, green light for restaurants (those with open spaces), cinemas, theaters and museums and travel.
The reopening in Sicily they are accompanied by increasingly comforting data with the number of positives (yesterday’s 405) the lowest of the year and with only 3 victims in the last 24 hours after months of war bulletins. Even at the national level, the epidemiological curve is increasingly flat.
The umpteenth signal the decrease in the spread of the virus but above all the effectiveness of vaccines in reducing hospitalizations and deaths. The data will arrive on the table of the control room that will be there in the next few hours at Palazzo Chigi: if confirmed in the coming weeks, they will lead to the cancellation of the curfew, one of the most significant and controversial measures of these months. “With the data improving – says Health Minister Roberto Speranza – we can relax and then overcome the curfew”.
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For now, however, we will proceed following the line of gradualness and prudence, as the Prime Minister Mario Draghi repeated several times and as Speranza himself confirmed today also in light of the gatherings that continue to be registered in the cities, especially in the nightlife areas: “We must to continue with reasoned confidence towards the gradual reopening of other activities and this is possible thanks to the measures adopted in recent months, the correct behavior of the majority of people and the vaccination campaign ».
The coupon to the decree in force should therefore lead to a new provision which will be operational from 24 May and which will rewrite a whole series of rules and restrictions. The first is, in fact, the one concerning the curfew: the indication was to postpone it to 23 but it is not excluded that it can be brought up to midnight given the pressing of the center-right and the regions. A new check will then be done at the beginning of June and that could be the occasion to permanently cancel it. “It is realistic to assume – says the Minister of Regional Affairs Mariastella Gelmini – that it will be reviewed in the coming weeks”.
But the top among the group leaders the majority will also deal with other matters since, as the leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber Roberto Occhiuto reiterates, the center-right continues to ask for “real openings” for all sectors, especially those that do not yet have a date to be able to start again. And Matteo Salvini raises the stakes again, calling a videoconference of the League before the government meeting. “We expect reopening and restart, work and freedom, outdoors and indoors, day and night”.
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The government should therefore decide also the reopening of shopping centers on weekends (May 22 or 29), that of indoor swimming pools, which could be June 1 together with gyms, and the recovery of the wedding sector. The date could be around June 15 and it is not excluded that the wedding is the first activity in which to experience the green pass, the certifications that already allow you to move between regions of different colors. Those who want to participate in a banquet must have a certificate of vaccination, a cure or a negative swab carried out 48 hours before the ceremony.
Nothing should change, instead, as regards the date of the restaurants indoors: they will be able to reopen starting from June 1st; however, it is possible that the government decides to allow the activity also in the evening while at the moment the decree sets the opening from 5 to 18. And if the ban on consuming at the bar counter is probably exceeded, the date should not be changed for the restart of fairs (June 15), congresses and theme parks (July 1). This is because the government, the president of the Higher Health Council reiterated and coordinator of the Cts Franco Locatelli, still wants to have a full picture of the effects of the reopening of April 26, which will only be available starting from next Friday’s monitoring. It is obvious, however, that, as for the curfew, a new check will be made at the beginning of June also for these sectors.
And that could always be the time for the executive to address another issue, that of the use of the mask outdoors, which has already been raised by many parts. At the moment, Locatelli said clearly, “it is too early to remove it, today the choice is not conceivable”. But, he added, “the time will come when we could abandon it.” It will not be at the beginning of June, but it is by no means excluded that with the arrival of summer – when half of the population will be vaccinated with at least one dose – after the curfew even the most worn object by Italians in this last year may become a memory.