Covid-19: Italy splits into three to face the second wave
A trader in Rome, on October 23, 2020, faced with restrictive measures and the curfew decreed in Italy in the face of the second wave of Covid-19.
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Staving off a general reconfinement as Italy faces an increasingly virulent second wave of Covid-19 is the challenge of the government, which is trying a new method: to divide the country into three zones.
Red, orange or yellow, depending on the severity of the health situation.
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With our correspondent in Rome,
Anne Le Nir
To this decision are added others, applicable throughout the territory:
curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
in effect since Thursday, November 5, closure of museums, after that of theaters, cinemas, swimming pools and sports halls but also of bars and restaurants from 6 p.m., closing of shopping centers on weekends and public holidays, reduction of public transport capacity to 50%, distance education for high schools and universities ... The new anti-Covid-19 recipe leaves the Italians more or less perplexed in Rome, in the yellow zone.
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For the regions in the red zone - Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta -, it is practically a new confinement that is applied.
Their inhabitants, ie 16 million people, will have to present a derogatory certificate for any travel.
For the regions in the orange zone - Puglia and Sicily -, the certificate will be mandatory to leave your municipality of residence.
And in these two areas, restaurants and bars are no longer open.
For the 14 other regions in the yellow zone, the rules are more flexible.
But, with some exceptions, no one escapes the curfew from 10 p.m.
Stefano, a 40-year-old employee in the capital, is not convinced of its usefulness: “
Everything is confused, I don't think the virus becomes more dangerous from 10 pm, so I feel inconsistent.
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Elvio, a young entrepreneur, has clearer ideas on the measures: “
It's good for blocking contagions.
Regions where hospitals are not under pressure and where there is less contamination do not have to be in the red zone.
The curfew is also good, but more controls are needed.
Otherwise, it will be useless.
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The new restrictions will be in force at least until December 3.
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