Valle d’Aosta red zone from 3 May, with strict rules for travel, school, restaurants and bars. Sardinia orange zone, Lombardy and Campania remain yellow zone with a long list of other regions. The order of Minister Roberto Speranza defines the new color map of Italy from Monday based on covid data, which fix the national Rt index at 0.85 and the incidence at 146 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. From next week, Valle d’Aosta will be the only region in the red zone. Sardinia is preparing to leave the band with the most restrictive rules and to move into the intermediate one with 4 other regions. The rest of the country is in the yellow zone.
Red zone: Valle d’Aosta.
Orange zone: Sardinia, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily.
Yellow zone: Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria, Veneto, autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento.
VALLE D’AOSTA
The Presidency of the Aosta Valley and informs that it has received from the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, the ordinance that places the region in the red zone. The order of the Ministry is based on exceeding the threshold of 250 cases detected in one week for every 100,000 inhabitants. In the period under review, from 22 to 28 April 2021, 331 cases were detected, equal to an incidence of 265 cases per 100,000.
During the day, the Region started a discussion with the Ministry, underlining how the high figure on the incidence must be contextualized in a framework of general improvement of all the other monitoring indicators, starting from the pressure on the health system. The comparison also showed how, in these conditions, the reduction of the incidence below the threshold of 250 per 100,000 would allow Valle d’Aosta to return to the orange zone as early as Monday 10 May.
RULES
The rules were set by the recent government decree.
COURFEET – In all regions, regardless of color, there is a curfew from 10pm to 5am.
MOVEMENTS – Less restrictive measures and fewer constraints in the yellow zone, starting from 26 April. The movements, in compliance with the curfew, are free. You don’t even need self-certification to switch from one yellow region to another. The rules for private visits have changed until June 15 in the yellow regions. Four people will be able to reach another private home, who will be able to bring with them minor children, even older than 14 years. These movements can also take place between different yellow regions and it does not matter if the journey involves crossing an orange or red region.
In the orange zone, you can leave the municipality, if it has up to 5,000 inhabitants, and move 30 km without going to a capital. Private visits can take place within the limits of the municipality. Instead, they are prohibited in the red zone. Yes to access to second homes, even if they are in the orange or red zone, but only if you do not live and if you move only in the company of the cohabiting family.
The movement, including those who are included in the return to their residence, does not require vaccination or recovery certificates and swabs.
BARS AND RESTAURANTS – In the yellow area, new reopening criteria for bars and restaurants that will be able to host customers for lunch and dinner as long as they are outdoors. You can only sit at the table, maximum four people, unless they are cohabitants. The distance is fixed at one meter. From 1 June, only in the yellow zone, the restaurants will be open even indoors from 5 to 18. You can only sit at the table, maximum four people, unless they are cohabitants. The ministry’s circular to the prefects clarified some rules for bars. Service at the outdoor tables and even at the counter is allowed only “in the presence of structures that allow outdoor consumption”. Otherwise, only table service and takeaway, allowed until 6pm. Inside the bars you have to stay as long as necessary.
In the orange and red zone, however, bars and restaurants are closed. The take-away of food and drinks remains allowed until 6 pm from bars and until 10 pm from wine bars, wineries and restaurants. Home delivery of food and drinks is always allowed.
SCHOOL – “From April 26 and until the end of the school year people go back to class even in high schools (upper secondary schools). Attendance is guaranteed in the red zone from 50% to 75%. In the yellow and orange zone from 70 % 100% “announced Palazzo Chigi. As for the university, “from 26 April to 31 July in the yellow and orange areas the activities take place primarily in presence. In the red areas it is recommended to favor in particular the presence of first year students”.
SPORTS, GYM AND POOLS – Gyms and swimming pools remain closed. “From April 26, 2021, in the yellow zone, in compliance with the guidelines in force, it is allowed to carry out any sporting activity outdoors, including team and contact activities. In addition, from May 15, 2021, always in the yellow zone, the activities of the outdoor swimming pools and, from 1 June, those of the gyms “reads the note from Palazzo Chigi.
In the orange zone it is allowed to carry out outdoor sports or motor activities, even in equipped areas and public parks, provided that in any case respecting the interpersonal safety distance of at least 2 meters for sports activities, unless the presence of a companion for minors or for people who are not completely self-sufficient. It is allowed to go to public and private sports centers and clubs in one’s own municipality or, in the absence of such structures, to neighboring municipalities, to carry out basic sports activities exclusively outdoors. The use of internal changing rooms in clubs is prohibited. In the red zone, basic sporting activities and physical activity in general are suspended at public and private sports centers and clubs, both outdoors and indoors. Contact sports prohibited. In the red zone, yes to walking near your home and individual sports (running, cycling)
CINEMAS, THEATERS, CONCERTS – From 26 April cinemas, theaters, concert halls, live clubs will reopen to the public in the yellow zone. There must be pre-assigned seats and a distance of one meter from each other. The maximum capacity allowed is 50% of the maximum authorized and in any case not exceeding 500 spectators indoors and 1000 outdoors, announced Palazzo Chigi. In relation to the epidemiological trend and the characteristics of the sites, it will be possible to authorize the presence of a greater number of spectators outdoors, in compliance with the indications of the CTS and the guidelines.