Moreover, it clarified that in red zones, people could not visit any other residence than their principal one. 15, followed by a PM decree on 2 March 2021, reiterates the prohibition from travelling across regions, saving for work, healthcare, and necessity. The statutory decree 23 February 2021, no. Sardinia was the only region under the white zone regime, but then rapidly moved first to the orange and the red regime on 13th April 2021.Īfter taking over, the new Government enacted two more statutory decrees. The public is not admitted to sports competitions. The ban on events involving large gatherings such as concerts, congresses, dancing in public halls applies. In particular, people must wear a protective mask in public spaces and observe physical distancing. They are exempted from most of the restrictions but have to respect some protocols established by further PM decrees. Regions included in this zone are classified at a low infection risk, namely where contagions are less than 50 for a hundred thousand population. 14 and 33 of 2020, had instituted a new “white zone”. 2, besides extending to 30 April the sunset clause for enacting the containment measures based on the two “framework” statutory decrees no. Meanwhile, the statutory decree 14 January 2021, no. He did not address the containment measures issue, save for promising to do “whatever it takes” to come back as soon as possible to everyday life. In his speech to the Houses to obtain the vote of confidence, Mr Draghi mentioned as his priority the implementation of a vaccination plan and extensively referred to the Next Generation EU recovery plan. The new PM and the cabinet swore into office on 13 February 2021. The former president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, formed a new Government that all parties in Parliament backed (except for the far right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia). The resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on 26 January 2021, prompted by disagreements with a junior coalition party (Italia Viva, whose leader is the former PM Mr Matteo Renzi) on the design and management of the so-called “ recovery plan” funded by the EU, opened a cabinet crisis. The specific regulations for each zone are enacted by PM decrees, while the Minister for healthcare decides the regime applicable to each region upon consulting with the affected regions. The third tier (“red” zones) concerns a high-risk scenario. The second tier (“orange” zones) regards the case that epidemiological data point to a medium-risk level scenario.

It consists of a differentiated approach between national baseline restrictions (“yellow” zones), where the risk of infection is moderate, and more stringent measures for the most affected regions amounting to a three-tier regulation system. In the first three months of 2021, public health measures remained in force following, by and large, the pattern established after the pandemic's autumnal recurrence.

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