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04 March 2020 Sports behind closed doors
"Sports events and competitions of all kinds and disciplines, held in every place, both public and private, are suspended; however, the aforementioned events and competitions, as well as training sessions for competitive athletes, are still allowed, inside facilities sportsmen used behind closed doors, or outdoors without the presence of the public; in all such cases, associations and sports clubs, by means of their medical staff, are required to carry out the appropriate checks to contain the risk of spreading the virus Covid-19 among the athletes, technicians, managers and all accompanying persons who participate in it. The basic sport and motor activities in general, carried out outdoors or inside gyms, swimming pools and sports centers of all kinds, are admitted only on condition that it is possible to allow compliance with the recommendation set out in Annex 1, letter d "or compliance with hygiene rules.

Stop at medical conferences
"In order to counter and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus, congresses, meetings, gatherings and social events are suspended throughout the country, involving healthcare personnel or personnel in charge of carrying out essential public services or of public utility; any other convention or congress activities are also deferred to a date subsequent to the end of the effectiveness of this decree ".

Stop to demonstrations and events
"Demonstrations and events of any kind, suspended in any place, both public and private, which cause crowding of people such as not to allow the respect of the interpersonal safety distance of at least one meter are suspended".

Closed schools, possible remote activities
"Limited to the period from the day following the effective date of this decree and until March 15, 2020, educational services for children and educational activities in schools of all levels are suspended, as well as the frequency of school activities and of higher education, including universities and institutions of advanced artistic, musical and choreutic training, of professional courses, masters and universities for the elderly, without prejudice in any case to the possibility of carrying out distance learning activities ".

Courses for healthcare professions excluded
"Post-university courses connected with the exercise of health professions, including those for doctors in specialist training, specific training courses in general medicine, the activities of trainees of the health professions, as well as the activities of the training schools activated at the ministries of the interior and defense ".

Education trips suspended
"Educational trips, exchange or twinning initiatives, guided tours and educational trips, however named, are scheduled, programmed by schools of all levels."

Medical certificate after 5 days
"The readmission to educational services for children and to schools of all levels for absences due to infectious disease subject to mandatory notification pursuant to the decree of the Minister of Health of 15 November 1990, published in the Official Journal n. 6 of the January 8, 1991, lasting more than five days, takes place upon presentation of a medical certificate, also in derogation of the provisions in force ".

Distance learning
"The school directors, after hearing the faculty's board, activate, where possible and for the entire duration of the suspension of the didactic activities in the schools, distance teaching methods also had regard to the specific needs of students with disabilities".

No consequences of absences on exams
The absences accrued by students due to the Coronavirus emergency "are not counted for the purpose of admission to final exams as well as for the purposes of the relative assessments". for the benefit of students who are not allowed, due to the needs related to the emergency

No first aid carers
"Patient carers are prohibited from staying in the waiting rooms of the emergency and reception departments and emergency rooms unless specific indications are given by the health personnel in charge; access by relatives and visitors to hospitality and long-stay facilities, healthcare residences assisted and residential facilities for the elderly, self-sufficient and not, is limited to only the cases indicated by the health management of the facility, which is required to take the necessary measures to prevent possible transmission of infection ".

Smart working
"The modality of agile work can be applied, for the duration of the state of emergency, by employers to any employment relationship even in the absence of the individual agreements provided for therein".

Healthcare facilities in prisons
The Ministry of Justice is guaranteed suitable support for the containment of the spread of the Covid-19 infection, also by means of adequate safeguards suitable for guaranteeing, according to the health protocols drawn up by the Directorate-General for Health Prevention of the Ministry of Health, new entrances to institutions prisons and in criminal institutions for minors until the end of the state of emergency ".

Tips for the elderly
"An express recommendation is made to all elderly people or people suffering from chronic or multimorbable diseases or with states of congenital or acquired immunosuppression, to avoid leaving their home or home out of cases of strict necessity and avoiding crowded places in the which it is not possible to maintain the interpersonal safety distance of at least one meter ".

Hygienic standards
Mayors and trade associations are asked to promote "the dissemination of information on health and hygiene prevention measures also in commercial establishments". In "public administrations and, in particular, in the areas of access to the structures of the health service, as well as in all rooms open to the public, hand sanitizers are made available to employees, as well as users and visitors." Furthermore, "public transport companies, even long-distance ones, take extraordinary means of sanitizing vehicles".

For those who come from areas at risk
"Anyone who, starting from the fourteenth day before the date of publication of this decree, has entered Italy after having stayed in areas at epidemiological risk, as identified by the World Health Organization, or has transited or stopped" in the red areas "must communicate this circumstance to the prevention department of the health authority responsible for the territory as well as to its general practitioner or to the pediatrician of free choice".

For healthcare professionals
"The public health operator and the territorially competent public health services provide for the prescription of the stay at home, according to the following modalities: a) contact by telephone and obtain information, as detailed and documented as possible, on the living areas and the journey of the journey made in the fourteen previous days, for the purpose of an adequate assessment of the risk of exposure; b) ascertained the need to start health surveillance and fiduciary isolation, inform the interested party in detail on the measures to be taken, illustrating the methods and the purposes in order to ensure maximum adhesion "

Quarantine
The public health operator "informs the general practitioner or pediatrician of free choice from whom the subject is also assisted for the purposes of any certification for INPS purposes (INPS Hermes circular 25 February 2020 0000716 of 25 February 2020)". In case of "need for certification for INPS for absence from work, a declaration is sent to the INPS, to the employer and to the general practitioner or to the pediatrician of free choice in which it is declared that for public health grounds was placed in quarantine, specifying the start and end date. "

Quarantine measures
"The public health operator must also: a) ascertain the absence of fever or other symptoms of the person to be placed in isolation, as well as of any other cohabiting partners". Quarantine measures: "a) keeping the state of isolation for fourteen days from the last exposure; b) prohibition of social contacts; c) prohibition of travel and travel; d) obligation to remain reachable for surveillance activities". The surgical mask is to be worn only by those who experience symptoms.