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April 25, 2021

Six months after the last time, we return to dine out, even if only and exclusively outdoors. And you can start traveling freely between yellow regions for any reason, including tourism: it was banned from before Christmas. Italy reopens but the government is still clashing over the curfew, with a back and forth between the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta and the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini, the latest sign of tensions in the majority who are already called to a check on Tuesday: in the classroom, the Chamber will vote on an agenda with which the Brothers of Italy ask to abolish the measure, "which does not limit the pandemic but freedom", and the former ally precisely urges: "there is no gift of political ubiquity ".

The first to fuel the controversy is Salvini in a Facebook live broadcast at midnight in which he launches the hashtag #nocoprifuoco and uses April 25 for a risky parallel between the day dedicated to the victory against Nazi-fascism and the end of the restrictive measures. "On the day of the Liberation the League is on the field to restore rights, work and freedom to the Italians" he says announcing that he has already collected 20 thousand adhesions to the campaign and criticizing the demonstrations in Bologna: "for the left, two people in a restaurant or someone who takes coffee at the counter are half-criminals, but the masses with red flags and Bella Ciao are okay. "

A few hours pass and Letta replies: "Salvini participates in a collection of signatures against the curfew that the government to which he belongs has established. If he does not want to be in the government, he must not", he says, recalling 'the incident' in the Council of Ministers with the League which abstained on the decree. "It happened once and it doesn't have to happen again."

The Democratic Party "does not trust the Italians and wants to keep them locked up at home" rejoined the leader of the League.

The position taken by the secretary of the Democratic Party is not addressed only to Salvini but to those who, in the center-right and among the presidents of the region, insist on speeding up: "if we make a false start and we have to close it again, it would skip the summer".

A concept that, with still 13 thousand cases and over 200 deaths in one day, both in the government and among the technicians are well aware.

"We must take one step at a time, be gradual and evaluate week by week" the evolution of the situation repeats the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza who does not go back on the curfew, assuring however that "if the conditions are right I will be the happiest of all to take other steps ".

"Nobody has the sadistic taste to prevent the movements" says the president of the Superior Health Council Franco Locatelli, but "that is the minimum time" to see the impact of the measures on the virus curve. And that there are no doubts about what the will of the government is confirmed by the circular of the Interior Ministry where it is clearly written that "the hourly limit for travel remains fixed from 10 pm to 5 am". From the ministry they underline that the checks, as has happened so far, will be carried out "with flexibility and attention" while there will be a strengthening of controls in the premises and in the nightlife areas.

In the next few hours, we will therefore see if that "reasoned risk" mentioned by Prime Minister Mario Draghi when illustrating the new decree was a gamble or, really, is the first step towards the new phase desired by the government: coexistence with the virus, made less devastating thanks to vaccines that reduce hospitalizations and victims. The government's gamble is all here: to start reopening so as not to close again, because the country is no longer able to hold up from a social and economic point of view, and at the same time accelerate the vaccination campaign to the maximum. By focusing on two elements: immunization of the groups most at risk, given that 80% of the over eighty and 45% of the 70-79 group received the first dose; the arrival in May of at least 20 million doses. IS'It is clear, however, that the risk of a new surge in infections, as demonstrated by the Sardinia case, which went from white to red in a month, is around the corner. What makes the difference will be the behavior of each one.