Tonight Conte announces the new measures, new summit with the regions

• Second wave of Covid, government at work for a new Dpcm

• Second wave: stricter measures are coming for non-essential activities

• Regions, summit proposal with Azzolina on Dad hypothesis for high school

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October 18, 2020 Staggered school hours;

closed gyms;

stop at bars and pubs from 9pm, at restaurants from 11pm or 24pm. A three-hour long confrontation by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte with the majority heads of delegation and ministers Roberto Gualtieri and Francesco Boccia was not enough to define the anti-contagion measures from Covid that will enter the new dpcm.

Today a new government-Regions debate is expected on the measures to contain the Covid epidemic: the Minister for Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, has convened a summit with Regions, Anci and Upi for this morning at 10 am.

The meeting will also be attended by the Minister of the University, Gaetano Manfredi and the Commissioner for the Emergency, Domenico Arcuri, and, via video link, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, the Minister of the School, Lucia Azzolina, the Minister of Transport, Paola De Micheli, and the head of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli.

Yesterday at the end of a discussion that majority sources define as "very tense", there is still no synthesis on various aspects, for which the comparison with local authorities will be decisive: from the stop to fairs and congresses, to the hypothesis of prohibiting consumption alcoholic drinks standing outside the premises from 6pm. The new squeeze should aim, as also suggested by the CTS, on smart working and on the staggering of high school hours, with the hypothesis of entry at 11 and a distance teaching fee to lighten transport (but a reduction in the maximum capacity of buses is not excluded).

There should also be a stop to amateur contact sports and - but there is still no certainty - the closure of gyms and swimming pools.

It also focuses on a push to trace the infections, urged by the experts.

Continue to divide the package of anti-nightlife measures and a possible form of "curfew".

At the end of the evening summit at Palazzo Chigi, the point of fall seems to be the closing of bars and pubs at 9 pm, restaurants at 24, so as not to weigh on a sector already in great suffering.

But the government calls for caution in indiscretions: there are those who continue to push for even harsher measures, especially at the weekend.

And who, like Italy alive, is against the new closures and keeps their guard up: despite the denial of various government sources, the Renzians do not exclude that the hypothesis - which they opposed - of one stop at hairdressers and beauty centers.