Covid. South Tyrol: "Ski facilities also open to amateurs"

• New Dpcm: what cannot be done until November 24th

• Covid.

  Conte signs a new Dpcm during the night, rules in force until 24 November

• COVID-19.

  Long lines and skiers crammed into the cable car, the season in Cervinia opens amid controversy

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26 October 2020In South Tyrol the two ski areas currently open - Solda and Val Senales - can be used by both professional and non-professional athletes and amateur skiers.

This is the provisions of point 46 of the ordinance of the South Tyrolean governor Arno Kompatscher in force from today on the prevention and management of the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19.

In the meantime, the National Association of Cable Car Operators of South Tyrol argues that "the lifts should be equated with local public transport and their closure would represent a severe blow to many mountain areas that survive only thanks to tourism and have no other income" .

According to Anef if they close the lifts, "the hotels will also close and the economy in these countries will stop" adding that "ski lifts and chairlifts are no problem because they are outdoors".

As the association explains, "the second wave of infections certainly cannot be attributed to the ski centers because they were still closed: skiing is an outdoor sport and cannot be treated in the same way as gyms and swimming pools". 

Among the latest measures introduced in the Dpcm - which came into force from 24 yesterday evening, until 24 November - is the stop at the ski lifts: "The lifts in the districts are closed they can only be used by professional and non-professional athletes, recognized of national interest by the Italian National Olympic Committee (Coni), by the Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP) "and / or by the respective federations to allow preparation for the conducting national and international sports competitions or carrying out such competitions ".

With regard to amateur skiers, it is specified that" the lifts are open only subject to the adoption of specific guidelines by the Conference of Regions and autonomous and validated Provinces by the Technical-Scientific Committee, aimed at avoiding aggregations of people and, in general, a

dismemberments ".

The decision comes 48 hours after the controversy following the gatherings in Cervinia, in the Aosta Valley, literally stormed on the day of the start of the ski season.

The images of long lines at the cash desks and people crammed into the cable cars, in a period of Covid emergency, have indignant the people of social networks.