Italy to tighten curbs before Easter

Rome, March 13 : Italy has approved a fresh round of tight anti-Covid restrictions nationwide, which will be implemented between March 15-April 6, including Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s cabinet passed the decree on Friday, after discussing it on Thursday night with the scientific-technical committee (CTS) counselling Italian authorities during the pandemic emergency, reports Xinhua news agency.
The provision will bring Italy back into a sort of lockdown-light, with restrictions very similar to those imposed over the Christmas-New Year period, which had allowed keeping the pandemic curve under control in January.
The three-tiered system, which divides the country into yellow, orange, and red zones — for lower, medium, and high level of contagion risk, respectively — was confirmed.
The new decree provided the whole country will turn “red” during the Easter weekend (April 3-5), thus embracing the maximum level of restrictions on business and social life.
In these days, people will be required to remain at home as much as possible, but for one single visit allowed to another private home a day by maximum two adults plus under-14 children.