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Italians will have to celebrate New Year indoors. Regional Affairs Minister Fransesco Boccia said on Monday that he will not allow exceptions to the curfew rules before December 31.

“If we decide that people are no longer allowed to be outside after a certain hour, then we will go home, regardless of what we have to do,” said Minister Boccia to the public broadcaster RAI. “Are there New Years celebrations? We’re celebrating at home, ”he added.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government faces a tough decision this week on the extent to which corona measures can be relaxed ahead of the Christmas holidays.

‘Over my dead body’

Boccia reportedly told fellow ministers “about my dead body” when discussing the possibility of postponing the current 10pm curfew to a later hour. “Yes, that’s what I think,” he said at RAI.

The government would come up with new corona measures by Thursday, when the current ones expire. On Tuesday, the issue was to be discussed with regional presidents.

The head of the Liguria region, Giovanni Toti, called for a Christmas with “a little more freedom for the economy and conviviality” in areas with low contamination rates.

He suggested having restaurants open in the evenings (they currently have to close at 6 p.m.) and have people attend midnight mass on Christmas Eve.

Other controversial issues include relaxing interregional travel bans to allow people to visit relatives for the festivities, and allowing ski holidays.

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