Agriculture Minister Stefano
Patuanelli said Wednesday that Italy's night-time curfew aimed
at preventing COVID-19 contagion is set to continue to kick in
at 10pm for the time being.
Many regional governments and Matteo Salvini's League party have
been pressing for the curfew to start at 11pm as the nation's
COVID-19 restrictions are gradually relaxed.
Premier Mario Draghi's cabinet is set to meet later on Wednesday
to approve a degree with the coronavirus-linked measures that
will be in force from Monday until the end of July..
The decree will reintroduce yellow zones, where measures are
less severe as the contagion risk is considered only moderate,
in the country's tiered system of restrictions.
At the moment regions can only be classed as high-risk red zones
or medium-high-risk orange zones.
A ban only movement between regions will be scrapped by the new
decree, according to a draft.
People will be able to move freely between yellow zones and
obtain a 'green pass' for travel involving orange and red zones.
The pass will be valid for six months for people who have had
COVID or have been vaccinated and for 48 hours for people who
have not, but have tested negative for the coronavirus.
People who make false statements to obtain the pass will risk
jail.
Theatres, museums and cinemas will be allowed to reopen and
open-air concerts and other shows will be allowed too.
Restaurants will be able to serve people at outdoor tables at
lunch and dinner.
But restaurants that do not have outdoor spaces will have to
wait until June 1 to serve people at tables again and then only
at lunchtime.
The amount of time high-school students spend in class is set to
increase, although sources said it will not go up to 100%, as
the government had hoped, because local authorities said this
could lead to public transport services being overloaded.
So high-school students will have at least 60% of their classes
in school in orange and yellow zones and at least 50% in red
zones, with the rest being taught via distance learning.
At the moment, high-school students are having all their lessons
via distance learning in red zones and 25-50% in orange and
yellow ones.
Open-air swimming pools will be able to open from May 15 in
yellow zones.
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