From tomorrow Italy turns red, New Year's Eve will be at home

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December 30, 2020 From tomorrow, Italy is back in the red zone, for the last 6 days of lockdown, until Epiphany, with the orange "break" on January 4.

As happened for Christmas, the New Year will also be under special surveillance by the police engaged in checks not only on roads and highways but also on the web, to intercept attempts to organize clandestine parties and parties.

The goal is to avoid dangerous gatherings, especially on New Year's Eve when the curfew, which usually ends at 5, will be extended until 7 am on January 1st.   

The restrictions will be those already prepared in the week of Christmas, from 24 to 27 December, with the prohibition of travel except to visit friends or relatives, in a maximum of two people (and any children under 14 or disabled people) and one only once a day.

Always paying attention to the absolute prohibition of moving during curfew hours, that is, starting at 10 pm, if not for proven work, health or necessity and urgency needs.

Violators risk fines that can range from 400 to 1,000 euros.

A maximum of two non-cohabiting people can be accommodated in the house, always excluding children under 14.

For this reason, the police will set up tighter checks, in particular on cars with more than two passengers.

The concern, in fact, is that compared to Christmas - when it was especially couples or families who moved - during New Year's Eve, friends and acquaintances are instead traveling together to prohibited parties.

A particular light will be focused on closed premises, which could be reopened illegally, and also in traditional gathering places, such as streets and squares of cities.

Controls then prepared to verify compliance with the anti-barrels and fireworks regulations, provided for in numerous Italian cities, from Bologna to Palermo, to Naples.   

But New Year's restrictions may not be the latest for Italians.

The colored bands - as premier Giuseppe Conte confirmed today in the conference at the end of the year - will still remain, especially to avert a third potential wave of Covid.

"We just have to understand - said the prime minister - whether the variants, such as the English one, which have a higher rate of contagiousness, will require us to update our measures. Otherwise the system by bands with monitoring is absolutely adequate. also for the third wave ".   

Meanwhile, in view of January 7 - and therefore a cautious recovery - there are several activities that ask for clarity on the future.

The hypothesis of the reopening of the

seems to have faded

, which, on the recommendation of the president of the Conference of Regions, Stefano Bonaccini, could be postponed to January 18.

A decision that, in all likelihood, will only be made in the first ten days of the new year.

However, an appeal to the government has been made from the Aosta Valley to keep the attention on mountain areas high.

Some regions, then, are thinking of changing the date of the

, which traditionally take place in the first days of the year, in consideration of the last days of the red zone.