Italy is breathing again. After months with a very high number of Covid-19 infections and, unfortunately, of victims, the trend has reversed and just today the ‘control room’ of the government led by Mario Draghi has decided to relax the restrictions. But let’s go in order.
Three regions (Friuli, Sardinia and Molise) are preparing to enter the white zone as early as June 1st (regions where 100,000 inhabitants having fallen below the threshold of 50 cases per week). Three more (Liguria, Veneto and Abruzzo) from June 7th. For them the curfew will cease completely: only the rules of distancing will remain in force. Overall, sixteen Italian regions are below the threshold of 100. The new cases of Covid-19, moreover, in the last week have decreased by 27.8% (from 66,476 diagnoses in the period 3-9 May it passed to 47,942 than that between 10 and yesterday, Sunday 16), while last week the reduction was 19%. To find numbers lower than the current ones, you have to go back to the count of 5-11 October, over seven months ago. An even more important datum if we consider that the green light for the school, which arrived after Easter, does not seem to have affected, nor the subsequent openings of many activities in some areas. Evidently, the effects of vaccination are beginning to be seen. Hospital admissions have also dropped (halved in a month) and, finally, deaths: a fifth fewer deaths in a week. In the last, they lost their lives due to Covid 1,323, in the previous ones it had reached “peaks” of over 3,000.
All positive data that convinced the government to speed up reopening: curfew shifted for everyone from the current 10 pm to 11 pm as early as this Wednesday (i.e. as soon as the decree will be published in the Official Gazette), with a further move to midnight from 7 June, to then disappear definitively from next 21 June (in the white regions it will cease from 1 June). From 1 June, in bars it will be possible to eat again at the counter (indoors) from 5 in the morning to 6pm and from the same date it should also be possible to eat in the internal rooms of the restaurant, both for lunch and dinner.
According to a series of deadlines, in the space of a few weeks, outdoor sports events (and then also indoors), gyms and swimming pools, mountain lifts, cultural and recreational centers will reopen to the public while they will remain closed the discos.
Finally, green light for parties (baptisms, graduations, etc.) and weddings from 15 June, but it will be necessary to present a ‘pass’ certifying that they have been vaccinated, recently recovered from Covid (and therefore still be immune) or have had a negative coronavirus swab.
