• Lombardy returns to the orange zone like Piedmont and Marche.

    Basilicata and Molise red, Liguria yellow

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    Bologna and municipalities in dark orange

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February 27, 2021 From Monday, Basilicata and Molise in the red zone and three other regions - Lombardy, Piedmont and Marche - turn orange and extend the list of those in which the restrictions are in force: there are now ten in total, in addition to provinces of Trento and Bolzano, more than half of the country, to which must be added the local lockdowns such as those taken in the provinces of Frosinone, Pistoia and Siena already today and the 'dark orange' measures in the province of Bologna and Brescia.



The weekly monitoring of the Ministry of Health photographs an Italy increasingly in difficulty due to the spread of Covid variants and from the experts comes a new invitation to maintain and indeed strengthen the restrictive measures: "in light of the clear growing trend - says the 'Higher Institute of Health - further and urgent mitigation measures are needed on the national territory and specific "local" interventions to avoid the overload of health services ".



Sala: behave correctly at the weekend

"Behave appropriately in the difficult moment": this is the appeal with which the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala closes a video on Facebook in which he invites the Milanese, in the last yellow weekend before Lombardy falls into the orange zone, respecting the rules announcing that there will be more decisive controls anyway.   



"We have been in orange since Monday but having a weekend of yellow and good weather - he explained - I ask you to behave correctly".



Red Basilicata, from 1 March dad in all schools

From next Monday, 1 March, when Basilicata will become the red zone, distance learning will be compulsory in all Lucanian schools.

It was learned in Potenza at the end of a meeting of the regional crisis unit.

In the next few hours, the details of the ordinance will be announced, which will be signed by the President of the Region, Vito Bardi.