TURIN. Shopping fever took over on the first day of reopening of shops in regions that changed color, turning from red to orange yesterday. A lower risk range with less strict restrictions than those of the last few weeks.
From Turin to Milan to Rome there have been gatherings in the streets of the historic center that clash, however, with the requests of the government, regional presidents, mayors and infectious diseases. Everyone is asked for “prudence and maximum attention to individual behaviors” in this delicate moment when infections have decreased, but the virus continues to circulate, so it is not allowed to let your guard down.
Turin: crowd in the center on the day of the transition to the orange zone
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Among the first to intervene the governor of Piedmont, Alberto Cirio. “What I saw yesterday in some streets in Turin is something that reminds me of the summer and we cannot afford it,” he commented, seeing the images of the crowd that accompanied the reopening of the shops yesterday. “What happened yesterday in Turin is something unacceptable”, he underlined to the microphones of Radio Veronica One.
The governor of Piedmont is now participating in the Committee for Public Order and has already anticipated that he wants to ask «the prefect for very rigorous interventions. I know that the police have done a lot but obviously not enough. The Piedmontese are behaving in a serious way, but where there are situations that get out of hand, it is necessary to intervene immediately in a clear way ».
Also there mayor of the Piedmontese capital, Chiara Appendino, he urged caution: «We support the neighborhood shops and, at the same time, we do not let our guard down. You can walk and shop responsibly ».
Also worried about the gatherings of the last shopping weekend the infectious disease specialist Massimo Galli, of the Sacco hospital-University of Milan. “It is clear that, if the precautions necessary to limit the spread of infections are not maintained,” we will only be able to review a situation similar to the one we have already experienced “, that is, arriving at a third wave of Covid-19.
The expert, guest of Agora on Rai3, he warned that “we still have a lot of viruses circulating”. Too much, throughout the country, “to think of returning to a free all just had a hint of a result” from the restrictions placed against the second wave.
Also Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee he said he was worried about what happened on the first Sunday of Christmas shopping. He fears that the promising results achieved on the front of the slowdown in infections will be shattered by a farewell to prudence during the Christmas holidays. “I wonder: why if in via del Corso in Rome or in the shopping streets of other cities if there are too many people, there is no intervention and no limited number is imposed?”. And he then added: «It seems difficult to explain that it is necessary to limit travel between Regions if we accept that there are gatherings for Christmas purchases. Large numbers facilitate the transmission of the virus. It cannot be a traditional Christmas, unfortunately ».
The Undersecretary of Health, Sandra Zampa, a 24Mattino su Radio 24, speaking of the shopping crowds in some Italian cities that have passed from red to orange zones, he defined “disconcerting that people find it difficult to understand the gravity of the situation and that a lot depends on our behavior which must be virtuous”. «I understand that you have to shop – he continued – but if you see that the situation is like this, maybe you change day or area, maybe you go home. This is not a good sign, it is not comforting », he concluded.
In short, the images of the first day of reopening further reflect on the decisions being examined by the executive on the new Dpcm that will be in force from 4 December. «We are working on severe restrictive hypotheses. But the Dpcm still does not exist, there are some hypotheses, ”the undersecretary reiterated. “All the hypotheses that dance in the newspapers create an impressive anxiety and I prefer not to contribute with hypotheses not yet confirmed,” said Zampa. “We will try to make sure that people understand that they have to move as little as possible – he added – the plan will be presented and illustrated by the minister on Thursday 3 December”.
Always this morning the minister Francesco Boccia a Rainews 24 returned to the question of the Christmas decree, timetables and curfews: «If we decide that there is an hourly limit for travel, we go home regardless of what we have to do: is New Year to be celebrated? We celebrate at home, “he said. And when asked if it were true that he had said «they must pass over my body» if the curfew is skipped at 10 pm, the minister replied: «Many things are said in the meetings and in any case, yes I think so, like Speranza and the whole government. Prudence and attention is our line, a line that puts health above everything ».
