This is how Easter is lived in Italy, confined until Monday

From this Saturday to Monday, the three public holidays in Italy for Holy Week, the country will remain completely closed, because a “red zone” has been decreed throughout the territory., which forces do not leave the house except for an emergency or work, and to closing of all stores, a situation that will not change throughout the month of April due to an epidemiological curve that does not stop as expected.

At home

The stations and airports full in previous years to this period to take advantage of the holidays appeared this Saturday half empty and you only see passengers who justify going back to their place of residence to spend those days there.

Although it is allowed to go to airports to travel abroad, the government decreed a few days ago the Obligation of a five-day quarantine and a new coronavirus test at the end, for those returning until April 6 from the countries of the European Union (EU), which is why many preferred to give up their desire for holidays outside Italy.

To impose the closures, they increased checkpoints on exit routes from large cities and also on the coasts, which these days was packed with visitors.

The only exception is that it is allowed to leave the house to visit relatives and friends, but only two adults with children under the age of 14 or with dependents, the same number of people that we can receive at home, and only in the same municipality.

It is a measure for allow family breakfasts on these dates when it is traditional in Italy to meet.

It is also allowed to go to the second houses even if they are in another region, but some regional presidents have decided to ban it to avoid crowds in places of greater tourist attraction.

More specifically, no type of mobility to secondary residences will be authorized in Valle d’Aosta, Trentino Alto Adige, Tuscany, Marche, Calabria and Sardinia, while in Liguria, Campania and Apulia they even forbade its inhabitants to leave the commune itself.

The small maritime town of Portofino, in Liguria, appeared this Saturday practically desert with only 150 inhabitants, on dates when up to 3000 people, especially Ligurians but also Milanese, came to enjoy the sea.

You will not be able to go to parks, green spaces and beaches to organize picnics or barbecues which are traditional nowadays although it is allowed play sports, such as running or cycling, but only near home. Those who swim will be able to enter the sea, but when they leave, they will not be able to lie on the sand.

The closure situation will not change until the end of April

In the last 24 hours, Italy recorded 21,932 new infections and 481 deaths, reaching 110,328 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in February of last year.

Even if it’s him RT contagion index first fell in week 1 and is at 0.98, as well as the incidence which has decreased in 232 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on average, the epidemiological curve does not finish falling as expected.

According to the latest data, there is still twelve regions with intensive care bed occupancy for COVID-19 patients above the 30% safety threshold. Of 565,295 current positives, 32,408 are admitted and 3,704 of them also require intensive care.

Therefore, half of Italy (Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Apulia, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Tuscany, Calabria and Campania) will continue after Easter in red zone until at least April 20 and the rest of the country in the orange zone, in which greater mobility and the openness of certain activities are allowed.

The big difference with the past will be that, from Wednesday, at the end of the school holidays, the government approved that schools would not close until the first year of secondary education, although the region falls into the red zone.

(With information from EFE)

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