More than half Italy enters the “yellow zone” for the omicron variant
most of Italy is from today on “yellow zone”, with eleven regions and 63% of Italians in the second level of the restraint system established by the pandemic, after the rapid spread of the omicron variant has led the country to exceed the record of daily infections in the last days.
The 37 million inhabitants of the regions of Lombardy, Lazio, Piedmont, Sicily, Liguria, Marche, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Calabria and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, according to calculations by the Italian association Coldiretti, move to the second level of limitations, although in fact they will hardly notice any changes, after the latest measures adopted by the Government.
The mandatory use of the mask outdoors and the limitation of four diners in bars, restaurants and parties, which are the main restrictions of the “yellow zone”, had already been decreed in recent weeks by the Executive due to the rapidity of omicron infections and Christmas celebrations.
Italy reached its official record of infections during the pandemic last Friday, when the authorities communicated 144,243 new cases of coronavirus in the previous 24 hours and more than a million positives.
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