If you don't want to risk a third wave of infections, more violent than the first and second (which today has caused almost a thousand deaths), you cannot let your guard down even during the Christmas and New Year holidays. This is the philosophy, announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in a press conference at the time of the evening news, which inspires the new Dpcm, approved in the last few hours and operational starting tomorrow, despite the grumblings of some Regions and some interested categories.
The Dpcm provides for a double anti-Covid tightening: the first one that goes from December 21 to January 6 and prohibiting transfers from one region to another, whatever its color and except for proven health or work reasons. The second tightening, even tougher, concerns the actual holidays and that is on December 25 and 26 (Christmas and Boxing Day) and January XNUMX next, days in which the transfer from one municipality to another will also be prohibited. It will be possible to reunite distant couples.
Confirmed curfew from 22pm to 5am (until 7am on January XNUMX) and bars, restaurants and pizzerias they will remain open only for lunch and in any case no later than 18 pm while home delivery and takeaway will be able to operate until 22 pm.
Italy will thus be armored for all the holidays, even if it is not a real lockdown as in the spring, because factories, offices and shops (except for some restrictions for shopping centers on public holidays) will remain open until 21.
Closed instead without exceptions the ski lifts.
No dinners in restaurants not even at Christmas and New Year's Eve, while for home dinners it is strongly recommended that participants be reduced to close relatives only. Religious Masses on the night of 24 December they will be brought forward to 20 pm.
Who comes from abroad or who will go there during the holidays he will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine on his return.
From January 7, however, they will resume face-to-face lessons also in secondary schools.
It will finally start from 8 December the Christmas cashback with refunds of 10% and up to 150 euros for those who use electronic payments. with cards and apps.
