Covid, the mayors go on their own: the outdoor mask is back in the historic centers. Florence thinks about it. And in Naples decumani with a ‘limited number’
It had been last week Venice And Arezzo to intervene, now it’s up to Padua and soon the same situation could occur a Florence, while Naples try to put a stop to the gatherings along the decumani. While the Regions fear that a “light” decree in the face of the resumption of viral circulation, I mayors play in advance and in various historical centers the mandatory masks externally, which with the rules currently in force are provided in yellow zone. Autonomous decisions multiply with the risk that, without a univocal decision from Rome, Italian cities could soon find themselves with a chaos of rules in view of the Christmas period, which involves greater flows of people around with the risk of gatherings.
In Padua the mayor Sergio Giordani will sign an ordinance to impose the obligation to wear a mask even outdoors, 24 hours a day. The measure will be in effect from Friday and will be valid until December 31st. Sanctions are envisaged for those who do not respect the obligation. The prefect Raffaele Grassi has also decided to “close” the historic center at no Green pass events, delegating to the commissioner the assessment of interdicting the events. Both decisions were agreed upon in the Order and Security Committee. “In a month – Giordani recalls – the data of the infections are quintupled and it is clear that the time has come for a significant common commitment to raise new collective shields against Covid. we must avoid running into new ones restrictions and try the weeks and holidays together with the greatest possible serenity ”.
In the absence of the government and with the number to take uphill, the take assess measures to be taken city by city. also to Florence It may be mandatory to wear the protective device, explained the mayor Dario Nardella: “I am evaluating, together with the experts, if there are the conditions to sign an ordinance and make mandatory the mask outdoors, even if we are in white area, starting from the first or maximum second weekend of December “. speaking a La7, he added: “Outdoors you can do more checks. That of the ordinance is a hypothesis that I am evaluating also because there will be many gatherings during the Christmas period. Controls in private apartments are much more complicated, but during the confinement they were made: therefore it is not impossible, but I believe that it should not go to those extremes “.
It will be signed on Thursday by the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, the ordinance for the regulation of access in the streets of decumani, heart of the ancient city center, during the Christmas period. The need to limit the access of citizens and tourists in the narrow alleys of the historic center has reappeared in the last few weekend with the mass return of the tourists, after the emergence of the pandemic arrivals. In addition to the regional presidents, therefore, the pressing the government also begins to arrive from the mayors.
After the decision of the traffic police of Rome that on Saturday evening they intervened in different areas of the center for close the squares due to the gatherings, as well as the hypothesis of the mayor of Milan to limit the entrances to the Vittorio Emanuele Gallery and the new interventions from Venice to Padua, from what he learns ilfattoquotidiano.it, the mayors are waiting for a “signal” from Rome for an organic intervention, based on what will also be established in the meeting between the Regions and the government: Christmas, one of the periods that drive the expenses and therefore he gives as much as possible, he would like to be dealt with calmly and with uniform measurements throughout the national territory.