Infections and cancellations rise. Restaurateurs in alarm also in Verona
We discuss reduce quarantines for contacts of positives, if asymptomatic, while it continues to increase throughout Italy. Hand in hand, increase cancellations – and non-reservations – of restaurants and holidays for dinners and dinners, including New Year’s Eve.
The health situation
Beyond 8 thousand and 600 new positives recorded in Veneto in the past 24 hours, 7 thousand and 400 in the previous bulletin. In the previous holidays, far fewer swabs had been made and therefore far less positivity had emerged, but the growth of infections had been evident for some time.
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More than the infections, today, the health and political authorities are worried hospitalizations, also growing, albeit much less than at the most critical moments of the pandemic. Hence the new measures, some already in force, others under study, and the extension of the use of the green pass. The reassurances of the super green pass and third doses, however, do not seem sufficient for the customers of the catering and related sectors.
Cancellations and missed reservations during these holidays they do not allow entrepreneurs and workers in the sector to sleep peacefully. On the other hand, how many by now do not have at least one positive or quarantined between friends and relatives? Dinners with friends seem to have been shelved. Even the New Year’s Eve in Piazza Bra is skipped.
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The projects of the restorers
In the Scala family he expresses himself with regret Paolo Artelio, president of Fipe-Confcommercio Verona: “Restaurants, clubs and hotels are safe places where strict national standards are meticulously respected: the barrage of cancellations arrives in these days unfairly penalizes the sector companies in our province, many of which are now at their last limit“.
Artelio continues: “We are the subject of a creeping, sneaky lockdown, which represents a sting for public businesses and will have very heavy repercussions on budgets already cut down by the hiccup limitations experienced in this 2021. The month of December, the most important of the year that alone it is worth 10% of the turnover of restaurants, it is largely compromised and is added to a prolonged period of crisis that was finally seeing a way out ».
Not only lack of income, but also organizational problems and early exits that risk not being covered. “Many entrepreneurs in the commercial sector had ordered goods, paid DJs, artists and suppliers. And now they have to cancel everything. We ask the government for urgent measures such as the extension of the bank moratoriums and the redundancy fund. Interventions that suffer from those sectors that are suffering the most. Like the catering in tourist places, that linked to events or private parties or discos and dance clubs, literally mortified by the latest provision that closed them without notice until January 31st », concludes Artelio.
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Also from Coldiretti comes a picture of the situation, which marks the -49 percent of turnover in farmhouses in the Covid era. The Veronese province has more than 400 agritourisms, over a third of those in the Veneto.
“The farmhouses – underlines the president of Terranostra Verona, the network of agritourisms promoted by Coldiretti, Stefano Chiavegato – often situations in isolated areas of the mountains or the countryside in family structures with a limited number of beds and at the table and with large open spaces, are perhaps the places where it is easier to ensure compliance with safety measures to defend against contagion outside the home. Despite this, a little throughout the province there are cancellations for hospitality on New Year’s Eve a cause of the advance of the new wave of the pandemic which has involved a growing number of families who have been forced to give up their holidays ».
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