Yellow, orange and red zone: rules and parameters, what changes

Yellow zone, orange zone and red zone: the new rules and the new parameters for the color of the regions struggling with the covid emergency arrive. “The parameters that allow the color change of the regions change. The colors are connected to containment measures arranged over the months. Until a few months ago the prevailing parameter was the Rt index, recently the decisive parameter has been recognized in the incidence ”, says the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in the conference after the approval of the covid decree. Read also “The substantial modification in agreement with the regions envisages considering the hospitalization rate as the prevailing parameter. A region in the white zone will pass into the yellow zone only when the rate of intensive care exceeds 10% and at the same time the occupancy rate of the medical area exceeds 15% ”, he explains. “The same regions will be able to move into the orange zone when the rate of intensive care will exceed 20% and at the same time the medical area will exceed 30%. It will go into the red zone when intensive care will exceed 30% and the medical area will go over 40%. The reason for this change is related to the fact that we have administered over 63 million doses, the expectation is that there may also be a greater viral circulation without relapses on hospitalizations ”, he says again.