Liguria struggling with the covid emergency launches a new ordinance with new measures and restrictions for Easter: in fact, second homes are banned for tourists, but also for residents, until the end of Easter Monday. The decision was announced by the governor Giovanni Toti during the daily press conference on the epidemiological situation in the region. The ordinance will be signed during the night and will be valid from Wednesday 31 March – that is when the schools will be closed for the Easter holidays – and will also cover boats and caravans ‘used’ as second homes.
“Given the numbers of the contagion and the fact that Easter will still be in the red zone – explained Toti -, and in order to avoid the exodus towards our territory and also the movements between our cities, especially towards those areas most affected by the viruses that are often places of second homes of residents in Liguria, I asked the offices to prepare an ordinance that on Easter days, starting from Wednesday with the closure of schools, and until the night of Easter Monday, that is between Monday and Tuesday, you prohibit going to second homes whether they are outside the region, in the sense that someone may come from other regions towards us, whether they are owned or rented by people residing in Liguria but in another province or in a other municipality than the one where one usually resides. Obviously – continues the governor – the same thing is true for boats used as a second home where you can sleep, the same is true for fixed structures on the inside. There are camping sites with bungalows, caravans with a veranda transformed into the current secondary residence of the family. It is a measure that I am sorry to take – Toti underlines -, but being the red zone we believe we are doing limited damage to the Region’s economy, thus trying to lower the contagion curve “.