Schools, skis, gyms, hotels and so on and so forth. 2021 will be the year of the “restart”. The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella also said in his last message at the end of the year, underlining that those just started will be 365 days “of intense work”. Trying not to be reckless in fact and hoping that the vaccination campaign will run its course smoothly, it will be necessary to first patch up and then refine the gash that the arrival of the Coronavirus opened in the life of the country.
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The first date to circle on the calendar is very close: 7 January. From Thursday not only the schools will restart (amidst doubts and hopes) but we will also say goodbye to the Christmas restrictions to return to the practice of the peninsula “in color”. That is to say that, at least for those who live in the yellow zone, it will be possible to indulge in a few trips or a lunch at the restaurant. Without exaggerating, however, yellow is not a free all. From 18 January it will then be the turn of the ski slopes which, with limitations and common sense, will try to save the winter tourist season. To follow – hopefully with an increasing pace due to the vaccination campaign – will be the turn of gyms, swimming pools, museums, cinemas and theaters. Always with care and without letting go. It will still be early for normality.
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And it will be so even when between spring and summer, you can go back to really travel for tourist purposes while respecting the distances and keeping the mask on. In fact, to remove it, according to experts we will have to wait at least for the end of the summer. That is, when a new school year will be shortly before everything in the presence and an everyday life that more strongly resembles the one we gave up.
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From January 7/1
50% face-to-face teaching
and staggered timetables:
schools reopen (perhaps)
Despite the doubts of the Regions, the government insists that Italian students of all levels (including high schools therefore) return to sit in the classroom. In a partial way though. In fact, it starts with mixed teaching, with 50% of the students in the classroom and 50% at home. A percentage that, as requested by some Regions already ahead with the organizational plans (see Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany), is destined to increase to 75% as soon as possible, perhaps already at the end of the month.
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From January 7/2
Colors return
and travel between Regions
but only between yellow areas
With the end of the Christmas restrictions, the Peninsula will return to the color system. In other words, the subdivision of the Regions into yellow, orange and red zones. So at least the Italians who are in the yellow zone (all if the control room scheduled for 8 January is not anticipated) will be able to move to another region with the same risk threshold or enjoy a lunch at a restaurant and, above all, not they will have to self-justify each exit except during the curfew time between 10pm and 5am (but with mask and spacing).
From 18 January
Open lifts
for the last attempt
to save the season
Before the fans cheer and cheer, it is best to wait a few more days. The OK to January 18 arrived yesterday by the Ministry of Health is in fact subject to a positive opinion of the Technical Scientific Committee on the guidelines presented by the Regions.
A yes that will lead to the opening of the ski lifts only in the yellow areas, with strong attention to limiting the queues at the entrances to the slopes and counteracting the crowding on cable cars and cable cars (limited in capacity to at least 50%).
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From January 31
For gyms and swimming pools
hopefully the green light
at least to individual courses
There is the proposal of the managers and also the side of the government: the reopening of gyms and swimming pools at the end of January could become a reality. With the favor of the Minister of Sport who will submit them to the CTS, the trade associations are developing new measures to encourage the great return. From the possibility of still limiting the number of entrances to the gym up to preventing customers from accessing the changing rooms or authorizing only individual lessons. In swimming pools, then, one person per lane is being evaluated.
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Early spring
Rooms full (but only half full)
at the cinema and at the theater
Downhill road to the museums
This time the push is the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. With the same protocols of last June (distancing and halved theaters) the aim is to reopen the cinemas and theaters. The real concern concerns queues and gatherings outside which, however, confidently let Mibact know, with the obligatory booking they can be kept under control.
Different speech for museums. Their reopening is considered simpler and could come independently from that of the rooms.
Late spring
Health passport
or vaccination license:
tourism aims to relaunch
This time the push is the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. With the same protocols of last June (distancing and halved theaters), the aim is to reopen the cinemas and theaters. The real concern concerns queues and gatherings outside which, however, confidently let Mibact know, with the obligatory booking they can be kept under control.
Different speech for museums. Their reopening is considered simpler and could come independently from that of the rooms.
Early summer
Finally you can play
soccer and basketball
But no changing rooms
If the numbers are adequate and if the vaccination campaign is successful, even returning to seeing the football pitches, basketball or any other contact sport full of fans, may not be a real mirage at the beginning of summer 2021. .
Unlikely, however, that it is a real free all. In fact, showers and changing rooms should remain closed, just as happened for a short time last summer.
Summer end
Down the masks
and stop distancing:
with vaccines you can
“We don’t know if these vaccines protect against infection, they definitely protect against disease. So at least until 10 September I don’t think a vaccinated person should stop wearing a mask or observe certain distancing and protection measures ». This is supported by microbiologist Andrea Crisanti, who sees September 2021 as a reasonable horizon to start thinking (at least in some contexts) on doing without basic anti-Covid restrictions.
Since September
Distance lessons
end up in the attic:
everyone goes back to class
It is probably the greatest hope of all. In fact, the definitive return to the court would mark a very important symbolic step for the whole country.
To get there, however, it will be necessary not to live as a free all every conquest obtained until September 2021 and above all to undergo vaccinations which, “between the second and third trimesters”, according to the Commissioner for the Emergency Domenico Arcuri, could be almost all vaccinated.
Early autumn
Disco and parties last:
the mistakes of last summer
they must not be repeated
Discos and indoor events, after the chaos of last summer, will have to wait more than anyone. Better not risk it also because, as claimed by Massimo Galli, director of the infectious diseases department of the Sacco hospital in Milan, it is unlikely that “the game will be over within a year”.
Unless, and if everyone hopes it, the Rt index is not lower already at the beginning of autumn and there has been no resurgence of the virus, it will still be a long time before we can go back to dancing.
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