AGI – Seventeen regions in yellow, four in orange, none in red and none in white. It is the new picture of Italy in color, from Monday 8 February, on the front of the fight against the pandemic, after the latest evaluations by the Technical Scientific Committee.
However, the Covid variants and also the gatherings are worrying, recorded in the last few hours especially in the meeting and shopping places of the big cities (even yesterday in Rome and in other centers some areas were closed due to the high number of people present ). And precisely the variations and new infections caused above all by gatherings have led various administrators to a series of measures in force from tomorrow, Monday 8 February.
The Bolzano lockdown
In South Tyrol the president of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Arno Kompatscher, confirmed that from Monday 8 to Sunday 28 February the regime of lockdown duro. In addition to bars and restaurants, already closed, from Monday shutters lowered also for retail shops, it will not be possible to move between municipalities except for work and health reasons, and secondary school will be 100% remote. Early childhood and kindergartens will remain open while elementary and middle schools will close from 10 February and then reopen in person on 22. From 13 to 21 February in South Tyrol schools will be closed for the traditional Carnival holidays.
Perugia in red
Whole province of Perugia, e six municipalities in the province of Terniinstead, they will come in red zone Monday. The president of the Umbria Region, Donatella Tesei, signed the ordinance which will remain in force until February 21, after a meeting in which she illustrated the provision to the mayors of the municipalities involved. These are the red band measures envisaged by the Prime Minister’s Decree of 14 January, “reinforced” by further tightening. The decision was made “in light of the increase in the number of Covid cases in some Umbrian territories, as well as the ascertained circulation in the regional territory of two variants of the virus”.
The municipalities that will enter the red zone in the province of Terni are Amelia, Attigliano, Calvi dell’Umbria, Lugnano in Teverina, Montegabbione and San Venanzo. The remaining regional territory will remain in the orange zone. The regional ordinance, in addition to the red band rules, provides that “in the specified municipalities all socio-educational services for early childhood – up to 36 months of age – public and private and the educational services of preschool, state and equal, while the classes of primary, first and second grade secondary schools, state and equal, will carry out only the lessons with distance modality (Dad). The possibility of carrying out activities in presence remains – it reads in the text – if necessary the use of laboratories or in order to maintain an educational relationship that achieves the effective scholastic inclusion of pupils with disabilities and special educational needs “.
Similar measures, again from next Monday, also in other centers in different regions, while in Abruzzo, secondary school students will return to distance learning, while in Pescara face-to-face lessons suspended in all schools.
Sardinia is back in yellow
Meanwhile, after two weeks of the orange zone, amid protests and controversies over a ‘downgrading’ deemed excessive (the Region had also filed an appeal to the TAR), the Sardinia from Monday back in yellow, with the possibility for a series of commercial activities, in particular bars and restaurants, to reopen their doors even if with the closing time confirmed at 6 pm.
Here is the new map from Monday 8 February:
= YELLOW ZONE =
Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Autonomous Province of Trento, Sardinia, Tuscany, Valle d’Aosta, Veneto.
= ORANGE ZONE =
Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Puglia, Sicily, Umbria.
= RED ZONE =
No region.
= WHITE AREA =
No region.
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