White area, from Campania to Sicily what changes today: rules

White zone more and more extended in Italy. The anti-covid rules from Monday 21 June will be less stringent in 99% of the country: no curfew and fewer restrictions in restaurants while the mask is mandatory, at least for now, and the ban on gathering. The last remaining regions in the yellow area are Sicily, Marche, Tuscany, Calabria, Basilicata, Campania, the autonomous province of Bolzano and Valle d’Aosta. With the exception of the latter, all the others should move to the white zone from next week. The data of the weekly monitoring of the Higher Institute of Health are awaited for today. Then, after the meeting of the control room, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza will sign the ordinance that will sanction the color change of the regions. “From Friday we will have 99% of the country in the white zone, we are in a different phase” of the Covid-19 epidemic, Speranza anticipated in recent days, recalling that “there is a restart and reopening process, but we must keep an approach of caution and gradualness “. WHITE ZONE RULES If in the yellow zone there is still a curfew from 24 to 5, for those in the white zone the curfew is abolished immediately. This means that it is no longer necessary to return home within a certain time: in short, you can move without time limits. In this area the bars, restaurants and other catering activities are open and it is possible to consume food and drinks inside them, without time limits.The sale with take-away of food and drinks and home delivery are also allowed without restrictions. which must in any case take place in compliance with the rules on packaging and delivery of products. The new rules provide that in the white outdoor area there are no limits of people at the tables (between which there must still be a distance of one meter), while in bars and restaurants indoors a maximum of six people can sit at the same table except that they are all living together. On the other hand, there remains the prohibition of gathering and the obligation to wear a mask, both outdoors and indoors. OUTDOOR MASK, WHEN THE STOP? After the green pass for the green pass, with the signing of the new Dpcm by Prime Minister Mario Draghi , the next step towards a gradual return to normal could be the removal of the obligation of the mask outdoors. The debate on this point has arisen in these hours. “Some time ago I said that we could have put the mask in the outdoor pocket when we would have reached half of the vaccinated population, now we are. From the beginning of July it would be appropriate to drop the obligation”, said Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri . ” Removing the mask outdoors starting this summer is the government’s goal, and it is close “, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio wrote on Facebook, adding that” we have been waiting for this moment for months and now that the numbers tell us that we are overcoming the health crisis we need to accelerate “.” All the activities that are still closed can reopen and remove the obligation to wear masks, at least outdoors “, said Matteo Salvini at the end of the meeting at the Palazzo Chigi with Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The leader of the League had announced that he would ask the Prime Minister to remove the masks outdoors. “Seeing children and grandparents gagged without scientific motivation, seems to me a useless punishment. Let us at least free Italians from this symbol which was useful in an emergency phase, now it is no longer so “, concluded Salvini, hoping for news in this sense in the next few hours.