Covid Basilicata, six municipalities in the red zone

Six municipalities in the red zone in Basilicata. After the usual monitoring of the weekly incidence of coronavirus infections, the President of the Region Vito Bardi signed the ordinance n.27 with which, starting from today and until May 23, orders the application of the red area measures in three other municipalities. They are indeed, Pietrapertosa and Rivello (province of Potenza). The red zone is also confirmed for the municipal territory of Acerenza and Ripacandida (province of Potenza) and Rotondella (province of Matera), again until May 23. With the same ordinance, the revocation of the red area for the municipalities of Balvano and Rionero in Vulture (province of Potenza) and Garaguso (province of Matera). The provision, decided after the examination of the data carried out by the regional task force, was contested by the mayor of Anzi , Filomena Graziadei. At the moment, 18 are positive and “they are limited to 3 families”, underlines the first citizen. Furthermore, a screening of the school population was carried out the day before yesterday and all rapid swabs (128) were negative. Graziadei contacted the head of the task force, Ernesto Esposito, underlining that ” we absolutely do not agree with this decision which does not take into account the real situation ” while ” on the contrary the regional ordinance that provides for the red zone for Anzi, with effect only two hours after the telephone call, the social and economic tension exacerbates. I denounced – writes Graziadei in a press release – that the decision is inappropriate, late, not shared and damages the economic activities, especially the restaurants that already had all the seats booked, asking not to adopt it ”.