Among the ministers there are those who support a sort of curfew, with all the premises closed from 10pm or 11pm. Nothing is decided, also because two lines are confronted in the government. There are those, like M5s and Iv, who want to maintain greater caution at this stage. And there are those, such as Pd and Leu, instead believe that we must act immediately, without delay, even with tougher measures “to avoid having to then resort to the lockdown”.
Giuseppe Conte remains of the idea that the measures must be “proportionate”: he calls for a common EU strategy to avoid “destruction for all” and announces 200 or 300 million vaccines “very soon”.
River Summit at Palazzo Chigi, after the maneuver the new Covid Dpcm is discussed First the Maneuver, then the new Covid Dpcm. Long night of discussion at Palazzo Chigi, where the chapters of the next budget law were examined. At the end of the first round, the hypothesis of a new Covid Dpcm will be discussed. The meeting between the government and the Regions will be held on Saturday morning. Only after that the executive will prepare to close the new Dpcm due to further anti-contagion restrictions.
The Regions, meanwhile, are moving in no particular order. New straits arrive in Campania, Lombardy, Piedmont. The government will seek greater coordination in a meeting convened in the morning by Francesco Boccia with Speranza, Commissioner Domenico Arcuri and the governors. Arcuri asks them to activate 1,600 places in intensive care for which the materials have been sent. And Conte warns that “closing schools as a whole is not the best solution”, referring to De Luca.
The government, the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina speculates, could challenge that choice: “Instead of being in class, students from Campania are wandering around the shopping centers”, he complains. The common line of the government is that schools should not be closed. Some ministers hypothesize to strengthen remote lessons (already possible now, in the autonomy of the individual institutes) and to stagger the timetables more, with classes also in the afternoon. But don’t close the classrooms entirely.
The executive, Boccia warns, has offered and continues to offer all the support possible to the Regions, but before touching school and work, answers must be given by activating all intensive care.
However, new restrictive measures are needed at a national level, to stop the rise of the curve, invoke Franceschini and Speranza. The CTS, which had advised to stagger timetables to lighten transport, is ready to meet to give an opinion. The head of the PD delegation asks Conte for a summit as soon as he returns to Rome from the European Council in Brussels. The hypothesis is that it will be held in the night between Friday and Saturday, for a new Dpcm already at the weekend. But the premier is not unbalanced on the new measures, confirms the commitments on the agenda until late in the evening, and still takes a few hours to evaluate. On what to do, moreover, his ministers do not agree. There are those who would like to return to restrictions similar to those in place in the early stages after the lockdown. The toughest people would like a greater tightening to sports, even for children, and other activities considered unnecessary, as well as to close clubs and shops at 10pm, with a sort of curfew.
Peak of infections The Five Stars, defending what Azzolina did on the school and asking for “uniformity on transport”, to avoid crowds. In Italy, there are over 100,000 coronavirus positive people: with 10,010 new cases, compared to 8,804 on Thursday.
To Regions with an index of contagion higher than 1, explains the advisor to the Minister of Health Walter Ricciardi, “targeted closures were recommended, involving clubs, gyms, non-essential shops”. IS smart working as an “ordinary form of work across the country”. In order to guarantee safety on public transport.
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