White zone, no curfew but masks: rules

White zone in June, no curfew but the obligation to mask and distance remains. Reopening is anticipated. This is what is foreseen in the agreement between the Ministry of Health and the Regions on the rules to be applied in the bracket with the lowest level of Covid risk. The measures emerge from yesterday’s meeting between the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza who said he was “satisfied” with the agreement (“There is the awareness that prudence and gradualness are still needed”, he stressed) and the president of the Conference of Regions Massimiliano Fedriga, which was also attended by Giovanni Rezza, general director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, and Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health. These guidelines will be incorporated in a forthcoming ordinance by the minister, reports the Ministry of Health in a note. The shared proposal provides that – without prejudice to the basic criteria of prevention, masks, spacing, ventilation and sanitation of closed places -, once a Region enters the white zone, the so-called ‘curfew’ is overcome and can be anticipated at the time of passage the reopening of economic and social activities for which the current legislation already provides for the resumption of activities at a later time. The reference for carrying out the activities – the note details – is that of the ‘Guidelines for the reopening of economic and social activities’, adopted by the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces and other protocols. When the band change is expected From June the white zone returns for some Regions. The first of these that will see changes in measures and rules against Coronavirus – as established by the latest covid decree – will be Abruzzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Molise, Sardinia and Veneto. Specifically, the passage through Friuli Venezia Giulia, Molise and Sardinia will take place on Tuesday 1 June, while Abruzzo, Veneto and Liguria will pass in the white zone the following week, from Monday 7 June.
The president of Abruzzo Marco Marsilio, in a letter sent to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, asked to bring Abruzzo into the lower range of covid risk to next Monday. The request is based on a “significant decrease in pressure on hospitals and related intensive care units, such as to reach a low risk scenario, as confirmed by the control room monitoring data for the period 14-20 May 2021, which denote for Abruzzo an incidence of less than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants “, explains Marsilio in the letter.” If tomorrow we confirm the parameters and they remain those of the last two weeks, from June 7 we could be in the white zone. And in the white zone I intend to apply the openings and the curfew is to be canceled “. This was said by the president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, today during the usual press point from the headquarters of the Civil Protection of Marghera. Because, explained the governor of Veneto, “the white zone represents a return to normality, but it makes no sense to keep the curfew until 21 June as required by national legislation: what sense does it make to tell tourists that we have a situation that allows us to anticipate the white zone if we cannot free ourselves from the curfew? “On the possibility that the whole of Italy will turn white by the end of June, the virologist of the State University of Milan, Fabrizio Pregliasco, spoke at ‘Agorà’ on Rai3, relaunching the need for” attention and gradualness “in easing anti-contagion restrictions. “I don’t mind the idea of ​​a ‘strengthened white'”, because thanks to the “macroscopic and concrete” impact of vaccinations on the load of Covid-19 for the National Health Service, hospitalizations and intensive care, “we can open up, but let’s do it with the utmost common sense and the greatest possible progression “.” With the openings, with everything that is right to do “and that involves” more contacts and more movement – the expert of the Lombardy Technical Scientific Committee reiterates – a certain increase in the number of positive cases we expect it. Not a wave, I hope, but a wave of upsurge. But if we are dealing with trivial cases, in younger subjects, there will not be that fear that has taken over us when NHS has had objective difficulties “even during the latest pandemic wave.