The Council of Ministers has given the green light to the decree for the extension to March 31 of the state of emergency for Covid.
The decree law consists of 11 articles and extends all the measures related to the emergency. The Super Green pass in the white zone is also extended until 31 March. This is foreseen by a provision of the decree approved today in the Council of Ministers. To date, the reinforced Green pass is in force until January 15, but the decree establishes that in the white areas until March 31 2022 it must be used for activities that are subject to restrictions in the yellow area. This means that activities such as indoor restaurants, cinemas, discos, stadiums will remain closed to non-vaccinated people.
The CDM has not approved any measures that include the obligation to use masks outdoors.
The draft law decree for the extension of the state of emergency postpones to March 31 the possibility of limiting the movement of people, “on specific parts of the national territory or, if necessary, on all of it”: from the closure of roads and parks , cinemas and theaters, at the stop at the ceremonies, until lockdown and quarantine “to those who have had contacts” at risk. The draft also provides for the extension of the rule that establishes the criteria for the white, yellow, orange and red areas.
Until March 31, 2022 parental leave is extended 50% for parents with children in quarantine due to Covid and the possibility of smart working for fragile workers. The draft of the dl on Covid foresees it. By ministerial decree, “to be adopted within thirty days, chronic diseases with low clinical compensation and with particular gravity connotations are identified, in the presence of which, until March 31, 2022, the work performance is normally carried out in an agile way, also through the assignment to different duties, and specific professional training activities are carried out remotely “.
An infrastructure is born, at a military site, to “the storage and conservation of vaccine doses for national needs “. The draft law decree for the extension of the state of emergency Covid provides. 6 million are allocated for 2022” for the construction and preparation, by the Ministry of Defense, of the infrastructure at a military site “. The objective is” to ensure the strengthening of strategic infrastructures to face the needs connected with the Covid-19 epidemic and to guarantee a capacity for any future health emergencies “.
Francesco Paolo Figliuolo he was appointed to lead the joint top operational command (Covi). The Council of Ministers, it is explained, unanimously approved the nomination proposed by Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini. Figliuolo remains extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency and the decree on the extension of the state of emergency until March 31, also extends the powers of the commissioner, starting from those of ordinance.
In exercising the powers deriving from the declaration of a state of emergency, the head of the Civil Protection Department and the Extraordinary Commissioner for the implementation and coordination of the necessary measures for the containment and contrast of the epidemiological emergency Covid-19, “they also adopt ordinances aimed at scheduling the ordinary continuation of the activities necessary to contrast and contain the epidemiological phenomenon from Covid- 19 “. This can be read in the draft of the Covid decree approved by the Council of Ministers.
The allocation of 3.8 billion to cover the increase in electricity and gas bills in the first quarter of 2022. Minister Daniele Franco said this in the CDM, according to what is learned from government sources. Of these funds 1.8 billion cancel the general system charges for users up to 16kwh, 600 million are used to lower the VAT rate for gas to 5%, moreover for gas the system charges are zeroed for everyone, for disadvantaged families the increases are canceled with 900 million.
“I do not agree with the extension of the state of emergency: if it lasts more than two years it is a logical and linguistic contradiction. I believe that the government today must be able to fight the epidemic by restoring rights. A problem for democracy begins to arise. The only ones defending the Constitution were FdI’s. ”So the leader of FdI, Giorgia Meloni interviewed by Venanzio Postiglione, deputy director of Corriere, on Corriere.it.
The Super Green pass in the white zone is extended until March 31st. This is foreseen by a provision of the decree approved today in the Council of Ministers. To date, the reinforced Green pass is in force until January 15, but the decree establishes that in the white areas until March 31 2022 it must be used for activities that are subject to restrictions in the yellow area. This means that activities such as indoor restaurants, cinemas, discos, stadiums will remain closed to non-vaccinated people.
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