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May 17, 2021
It will be an Italy almost completely in yellow that represented in the Covid map starting from today. In fact, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, on the basis of the data and indications of the Control Room of last May 14, 2021, signed a new ordinance that brings the Regions of Sicily and Sardinia to the yellow zone. The only "chromatic variation" will be represented by the Aosta Valley which, even having yellow numbers, must remain in the orange zone according to the order signed on Friday 7 May by the minister.
Overall, therefore, the breakdown of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces in the different areas based on the risk levels starting from today is as follows: yellow zone for Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria , Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Autonomous Province of Trento, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto; Valle d'Aosta orange zone.
This is a result that comes after 5 months and that will lead to important reopening even in the only regions that have remained with more severe restrictive measures so far. In these areas green light to restaurants (those with open spaces), cinemas, theaters and museums and travel.
Meanwhile, foreign tourists begin to appear again in the squares and streets of Italian cities, after the circular of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza who from today cancels the quarantine for citizens of the European Union and Great Britain, but also for those arriving from territories of the Schengen area and Israel. Meanwhile, since Saturday the Italians have returned to the beach on the day of the reopening of the establishments and outdoor pools. Waiting for today's double appointment, the political control room in which the government will make the coupon to the restrictions in force with the possible postponement of the curfew to midnight and the meeting of the technicians from which the new parameters should arise to define the color bands of the regions - another piece of Italy reopens.
A restart that confirms that principle of gradualness and prudence in the executive's choices that the Prime Minister Mario Draghi has repeated several times and which he will repeat at the summit with the majority group leaders of tomorrow, despite the constant pressure of the center-right and most of the regional presidents.
The numbers continue to improve, as evidenced by the 6,659 cases and 136 victims in the last 24 hours, given the latter not registered since October 22, and the vaccination campaign is proceeding smoothly. But in order not to frustrate the sacrifices made by the Italians in recent months, this is the reasoning that is being made by the parts of Palazzo Chigi, and in order not to have to proceed with new closures, it is necessary to move with caution. Also because, and the images of the gatherings from Bari to Palermo to Rome where the Trevi fountain area was closed for a few hours are proof, it is not yet time to remove the restrictions.
Today, therefore, there should be no upheavals compared to the widely circulated hypotheses: the postponement of the curfew, at 11pm or more probably at midnight, starting from May 24, the date for the reopening of shopping centers on weekends (probably as early as May 22) and that for the restart of the weddings and ceremonies sector (it was assumed around 15 June). Furthermore, it is not excluded that the top may also indicate an indication for a new verification of the measures at the end of the month during which to evaluate the possible cancellation of the 'all at home' and address the issue of using the mask outdoors. during the summer. "Indoors the mask should remain even after, for a long time", the opinion of the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri who,in recent days, he had hypothesized the farewell to the protections once the 30 million vaccinated people were reached. Andrea Crisanti opens up to the possibility of removing the masks outdoors, according to whom a decision can be evaluated in "a couple of weeks". Finally, comes from the Genoese infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti, the invitation to the government to remove the obligation of the mask "after 20 days from the first dose of the vaccine".I call on the government to remove the obligation of the mask "after 20 days from the first dose of the vaccine".I call on the government to remove the obligation of the mask "after 20 days from the first dose of the vaccine".
And it is precisely on the vaccine front that the Scientific Technical Committee could launch the next novelty, that of extending the validity of the green pass beyond the expected 6 months. Indications in this sense were given by the governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti. "The minister (Speranza, ed) met with the National Order of Doctors - he said - to which he assured that in the next provisions of the law it will be extended by at least three months".
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The center-right, however, continues to insist that the restart of all sectors be brought forward with respect to the provisions of the decree, starting with indoor bars and restaurants. Italy has "comforting data that allow us to ask for a return to work, freedom and life," says Matteo Salvini after having brought together ministers, presidents and mayors of the League. But it is always on the curfew that the strongest pressures are concentrated, with the Minister of Tourism Massimo Garavaglia speaking of "numbered days" for everyone at home: "it doesn't work for tourism and I hope that the message you give can be given. early June is no more ". Even Forza Italia, with the group leader in the Chamber Roberto Occhiuto, asks for it to stop. "Real reopening is needed for all sectors, companies want to work,with refreshments alone, the country is not reborn ". Pressures to which Speranza replies by renewing the need for reopening to be" considered, because we do not want to go back ", while the leader of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta continues with the now daily question and answer with Salvini. It reopens safely because there were those who guaranteed that there were no hasty choices when instead someone just wanted to go wild ".it was the one who guaranteed that there were no loose choices when instead someone just wanted to break down. "it was the one who guaranteed that there were no loose choices when instead someone just wanted to break down. "
And today, therefore, there will not be only the political control room. A meeting is planned between regions, technicians from the Higher Institute of Health and the ministry in which the green light should arrive for the new parameters for the allocation of bands, which should go from 21 to 10-12. The RT calculated on symptomatic cases will remain among the risk indicators, but it will no longer represent an automatism that triggers the change of color, as has happened so far: it is the compromise reached between those who wanted to cancel it completely (the Regions) and those who, instead, he still considers it essential to photograph the progress of the epidemic (Ministry of Health and ISS). The 4 color bands should be determined by the incidence of cases per 100 thousand inhabitants (with 250 it goes in red, with 150-250 in orange,with 50-150 in yellow and with less than 50 in white) and the hospital RT.