Yellow, orange and red zone. Rules on travel, restaurants, schools, bars. While the debate on the curfew continues – currently set at 10pm – today comes the verdict on the regions that can change color. From Lombardy to Veneto, from Campania to Sicily, from Lazio to Puglia, the data of the covid monitoring and then the possible order of the minister Roberto Speranza are expected. We start from a map in which almost all regions are yellow, with free travel and restaurants open for lunch and dinner with customers outdoors. Here is the map: Red zone: Valle d’Aosta. Orange zone: Sardinia, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. Yellow zone: Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria, Veneto, autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento. “Our situation is always better, gradually but constantly the numbers improve, so I am convinced that the yellow zone will be confirmed”, he tells Sky Tg24. In Lazio, the councilor for health Alessio D’Amato observes, “hospital occupancy rates are within the threshold, the incidence decreases to 123 per 100 thousand inhabitants”. Some elements of apprehension in Veneto, which has an Rt index “one step away” from the orange zone. “The Veneto currently has an Rt of 0.95, one step away from the orange band”, explained the councilor for health, Manuela Lanzarin. “It is a fact that worries us and should worry us,” he added. “The numbers relating to the incidence are decidedly better – he underlined – instead: 97 positive per 100 thousand inhabitants, and hospital occupancy, equal to 15% both for intensive care and for non-critical areas”. Valle d’Aosta, currently the only region in the red zone with more restrictive measures and prohibitions, it aims to go up in the orange band, with less rigid rules. In the intermediate area, Puglia and Sardinia may not remain, aspiring to climb into the yellow zone. Puglia was aiming for yellow a week ago. Sardinia, which fell into the red zone from the white zone occupied at the beginning of March, aims to complete the ascent. “The permanence of Sardinia in the orange zone – says the president of the Region, Christian Solinas – would be paradoxical in the light of the data recorded in recent weeks”. The provisional report, sent by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità to the Regions and awaiting validation by the control room, confirms that from 26 April to 2 May the Rt contagion index of Sardinia is 0.74, in further decline compared to 0.81 recorded in the previous week. The data on pressure in hospitals are also positive, where the employment rate stands at 22% both for hospitalizations in the medical area and in intensive care, indices below the expected alert thresholds. : THE RULESCOPRIFUOCO – In all regions, regardless of color, a curfew is in force from 10pm to 5pm. TRANSFERS – Less restrictive measures and fewer constraints in the yellow zone, as early as April 26. The movements, in compliance with the curfew, are free. You don’t even need self-certification to switch from one yellow region to another. The rules for private visits have changed until June 15 in the yellow regions. Four people will be able to reach another private home, who will be able to bring with them minor children, even older than 14 years. These movements can also take place between different yellow regions and it does not matter if the journey involves crossing an orange or red region.In the orange zone, you can leave the municipality, if it has up to 5,000 inhabitants, and travel 30 km without however go to a capital. Private visits can take place within the limits of the municipality. Instead, they are prohibited in the red zone. Yes to access to second homes, even if they are in the orange or red zone, but only if you do not live and if you move only in the company of the cohabiting family unit. it does not require vaccination or healing certificates and swabs. BARS AND RESTAURANTS – In the yellow zone, new reopening criteria for bars and restaurants that will be able to host customers for lunch and dinner as long as they are outdoors. You can only sit at the table, maximum four people, unless they are cohabitants. The distance is fixed at one meter. From 1 June, only in the yellow zone, the restaurants will be open even indoors from 5 to 18. You can only sit at the table, maximum four people, unless they are cohabitants. The ministry’s circular to the prefects clarified some rules for bars. Service at the outdoor tables and even at the counter is allowed only “in the presence of structures that allow outdoor consumption”. Otherwise, only table service and take-away, allowed until 6pm. Inside the bars you have to stay as long as necessary. In the orange and red zone, however, bars and restaurants are closed. The take-away of food and drinks remains allowed until 6 pm from bars and until 10 pm from wine bars, wineries and restaurants. Home delivery of food and drinks is always allowed. SCHOOL – “From 26 April until the end of the school year, high school (upper secondary) schools are also back in class. Presence is guaranteed in the red zone from 50 % to 75%. In the yellow and orange area from 70% to 100% “announced Palazzo Chigi. As for the university, “from 26 April to 31 July in the yellow and orange areas the activities take place primarily in presence. In the red areas it is recommended to favor in particular the presence of first year students”. SPORTS, GYMS AND SWIMMING POOLS – Gyms and swimming pools remain closed. “From 26 April 2021, in the yellow zone, in compliance with the guidelines in force, it is allowed to carry out any sporting activity outdoors, including team and contact activities. In addition, from 15 May 2021, always in the yellow zone, the activities in the outdoor swimming pools and, from 1 June, those in the gyms “reads the note of Palazzo Chigi. In the orange zone it is allowed to carry out outdoor sports or physical activities, even in equipped areas and public parks, provided that in any case respecting the interpersonal safety distance of at least 2 meters for sporting activities, unless the presence of a companion is necessary for minors or for people who are not completely self-sufficient. It is allowed to go to public and private sports centers and clubs in one’s own municipality or, in the absence of such structures, to neighboring municipalities, to carry out basic sports activities exclusively outdoors. The use of internal changing rooms in clubs is prohibited. In the red zone, basic sporting activities and physical activity in general are suspended at public and private sports centers and clubs, both outdoors and indoors. Contact sports prohibited. In the red zone yes to the walk near your home and to individual sporting activities (running, cycling). CINEMAS, THEATERS, CONCERTS – From 26 April cinemas, theaters, concert halls, live clubs reopen to the public in the yellow zone. There must be pre-assigned seats and a distance of one meter from each other. The maximum capacity allowed is 50% of the maximum authorized and in any case not exceeding 500 spectators indoors and 1000 outdoors, announced Palazzo Chigi. In relation to the epidemiological trend and the characteristics of the sites, it will be possible to authorize the presence of a greater number of outdoor spectators, in compliance with the indications of the CTS and the guidelines. a picture is offered by the monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation: infections, deaths and positives down in the week 28 April-4 May 2021 compared to the previous one. The slight increase in the average Rt calculated by the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) on symptomatic cases is highlighted, which in the period 7-20 April is 0.85 (range 0.80-0.91) compared to 0.81 ( range 0.77-0.89) for the period March 31-April 13. Meanwhile, “the pressure on hospitals continues to decrease, where the curves of the number of beds occupied in the medical and intensive care area have continued to decline for 4 consecutive weeks”, says Renata Gili, Head of Research on Health Services at the Gimbe Foundation. read by Covid patients remains above the 40% threshold in Calabria and Puglia. Even in intensive care the curve reached its peak on April 6 (No. 3,743), with a drop of 35.3% in 29 days; the 30% saturation threshold is still exceeded in Lombardy, Marche, Puglia and Tuscany. “The number of new daily admissions to intensive care is also progressively decreasing – underlines Marco Mosti, operational director of the Gimbe Foundation – with a 7-day moving average of 135 admissions / day”.