Travelling, sports, visits to relatives and friends, restaurants, public offices: how will they work in the coming weeks, from now until Easter included? Given that between now and April 6 all Italy will be orange or red zone (apart from Sardinia which is white for now, the others are also barred from returning to yellow) and that in the days April 3-4-5 ad hoc rules will be in force along the lines of those applied at Christmas and New Year's Eve, the Palazzo Chigi website has taken care of this with the FAQs. Here are the main points, depending on the color of the area and on Easter days:
MOVEMENTS, MOTOR ACTIVITY AND SELF-CERTIFICATION
Red zone: self-certification is always required to leave the house and it is admitted for proven reasons of work, health or necessity (even to another Region or Autonomous Province). Return to one's residence, domicile or home is also always permitted, including return to "second homes" located inside and outside the region. It is forbidden to visit relatives and friends even within the same Municipality, except to assist non-self-sufficient people. Walks and bike rides are allowed near the house, you can go running but without trespassing outside the Municipality. Dog sitting is allowed (it is considered a domestic collaboration activity). A nationwide curfew remains from 22pm to 5am.
Orange zone: you can move freely in your municipality or, if you live in a town with less than 5 inhabitants, towards another center that is not the provincial capital, within a radius of 30 km. Otherwise self-certification is mandatory to justify the need. As regards visits to friends or relatives, in this area it is allowed, only once a day, to move to another inhabited private house in the same Municipality, between 5.00 and 22.00, for a maximum of two people, in addition to those already living together in the destination home. The person or two people moving will still be able to bring with them children under the age of 14 (or other children under the age of 14 over whom the same people exercise parental authority) and the disabled or non-self-sufficient people who live with them. Compared to the red zone, to play sports (bike or run) you can leave the Municipality. A nationwide curfew remains from 22pm to 5am.
Easter: on 3, 4 and 5 April 2021 the rules of the red zone remain but it will be allowed only once a day to move to another inhabited private house in the same Region, between 5.00 and 22.00, for a maximum of two people, in addition to those already living together in the destination home. The person or two people who move will still be able to bring with them children under the age of 14 (or other children under the age of 14 over whom the same people exercise parental authority) and the disabled or non-self-sufficient people who live with them. A nationwide curfew remains from 22pm to 5am.
FOREIGN TRIPS
According to the latest decree, travel abroad is linked to the destination. For all European countries, apart from Austria, travel is permitted without the need for a justification, both outward and return. However, the obligation to notify the Prevention Department of the local health authority of one's entry remains, as well as the obligation to fill in a self-declaration and undergo a swab in the forty-eight hours prior to entry into the national territory. If the outcome is negative, go ahead. If it's positive, no travel. If, on the other hand, the test is not carried out, you are subjected to fiduciary isolation and health surveillance in the country of destination.
'SAustria the ordinance of 13 February 2021 sets out the restrictions on entry and transit through Italian territory, for people who have stayed in or transited for more than 14 hours in Austria in the previous 12 days. Green light instead in Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Estonia, Finland, France, (including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Reunion, Mayotte and excluding other territories located outside the European continent ), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands (excluding territories located outside the European continent), Poland, Portugal (including Azores and Madeira), Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (including territories on the African continent), Sweden, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Andorra, Principality of Monaco.
Unlimited travel to and from Australia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Singapore, Thailand, e other states considered to be at low epidemiological risk, while the ordinance of 9 January 2021 established entry restrictions for those who stayed or transited in the 14 days prior to entering Italy in the Regno Unito di Gran Bretagne and Irelanda del Nord. From 13 February, entry into Italy is also prohibited for all those coming from Brazil or who have stayed/transited there in the 14 days prior to entering Italy.
PUBLIC OFFICES AND MUSEUMS
Red and orange area: face-to-face services can only be requested and provided by making an appointment by telephone. In general, the activities are primarily guaranteed electronically or in any case in such a way as to exclude or limit physical presence in the offices. Museums closed in both red and orange zones.
Easter: public offices and museums closed.
RESTAURANTS AND SHOPS
Red area: bars and restaurants are open, but only for take-away from 5 to 22. So are pastry shops and ice cream parlors. From 18 pm onwards, the sale is prohibited in premises without a kitchen. Green light to the bitter end for home deliveries. In the hotel, only for customers who have a room, consumption is allowed. Hospital and airport bars and autogrills are open. Only shops that sell essential products are open: supermarkets, pharmacies, tobacconists, petrol stations, bookshops, newsagents, perfumeries, underwear shops, electronics, sporting goods, children's clothes, games. Those who close can deliver at home. Stop barbers, hairdressers, beauticians.
Orange zone: for bars and restaurants the same rules apply as for the red zone, however the shops are open, following the safety regulations that have already been known for months, but shopping centers and non-food markets close on the weekend.
Easter: same rules as in the red zone.
SCHOOL AND PARKS
Red zone: schools closed at all levels, including nursery schools, classroom lessons only for pupils with disabilities or special educational needs, for all other Dads. Parks and public gardens remain open, except for local ordinances: children can use slides and swings.
Orange zone: from kindergartens to middle schools, institutions can remain open. Distance learning in high school on a 50 or 75% rotation. For parks and gardens the same rules as for the red zone.
Easter: schools closed and the same rules on parks as in the red zone.
MASKS AND SANCTIONS
Red zone: respiratory protective devices must be worn both when you are outdoors and when you are indoors in places other than your home, except for cases in which continuous isolation from any non-cohabitant is guaranteed . There are some exceptions (children under 6, while doing sports and people with specific pathologies). As far as violations are concerned, the assessment of the existence of justifications, and in particular those for situations of necessity, with respect to the varied situations that may occur in each concrete event, remains the responsibility of the competent authority indicated in article 4, paragraph 3, of the Decree-Law of 25 March 2020, n. 19 (which, for violations of the provisions of the Dpcm, is usually the Prefect of the place where the violation was ascertained).
Orange zone: same rules as in the red zone.
Easter: same rules as in the red zone.
