White zone regions, indoor restaurants: tables and rules

The white zone widens, the regions without curfew increase. Meanwhile, here is the new rule for indoor and outdoor restaurants. In addition to Sardinia, Molise and Friuli Venezia Giulia – barring surprises – Veneto, Liguria, Abruzzo and Liguria from Monday 7 June. The verdict will come with today’s monitoring data and with the decisions of the control room, before the order of Minister Roberto Speranza. The incidence of under 50 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants recorded in the last 3 weeks should lead to the promotion of another 4 regions in the white zone. In 10 days, on June 14, if the trend is confirmed, it will be the turn of Lombardy, Lazio, Emilia Romagna, Piedmont, Puglia and the province of Trento. Read also ZONA BIANCA, WHO ENTERS The finish line is very close to Veneto. “The RT is 0.64, the occupation of the wards and intensive care is 5%. The incidence is 19.4 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. We are abundantly in the white zone. . I’m not celebrating the end of the infection and the emergency, no one gets excited. But if the tunnel was 100 km long, we made 99 “, says Governor Luca Zaia. In perspective, Piedmont and Lazio are preparing for the passage. In Piedmont, according to the prereport, the punctual Rt index calculated on the date of the onset of symptoms drops from 0.70 to 0.64. The percentage of positivity of the swabs is reduced passing from 3.2% to 2.3%. Below the threshold, and further reduced, the occupancy rates of ordinary beds (from 14% to 10%) and in intensive care (from 15% to 13%). Finally, the active outbreaks, new ones and the number of people not connected to known transmission chains are decreasing. “In Lazio the incidence and RT are from the white zone”, says Councilor Alessio D’Amato. “I am very happy with my community because Lazio was the region with the longest time in the yellow zone. I trust, if the data continue like this, around mid-June to arrive in the white zone”, comments the president of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti, to Tg2 post. “This was not given to us by anyone, there was a responsible community and the measures worked – he underlines – There was a lot of debate on the curfew, but it was not madness, it was the form to achieve this result. The virus changes and it strikes us, prudence is leading us to return to normality “. RESTAURANTS, HOW MANY AT THE TABLE? Entering the white zone corresponds to the application of the new rules for restaurants. Indoors, the presence of 6 people will be allowed at the same table. Outdoors, there is no limit and the table can also become extra-large. In the yellow zone, the bar for restaurants should remain firm at 4 diners, both indoors and outdoors according to the agreement that, according to government sources, was reached in the dialogue within the government majority as well as between the executive and the Regions. The governors had proposed the limit of 8 diners inside in the white zone, but in the end the line of graduality and greater prudence seems to have prevailed. for disease prevention and control. The exploit of Molise, the first region in the green zone, in the least risk range stands out. This week the red zones are halved: only Valle D’Aosta in the north and Basilicata and Calabria in the south remain of this color, while compared to the previous map, the orange zone of Tuscany, Campania and the rest of the Peninsula, already orange, including the islands, is of lower risk.