ChronItaly3. Three Hundred Sixty Five days of Covid
Our Life has changed a lot during this year. Our habits, our passion, our personal goal, our jobs and our relationships with others have changed.
After the first quarantine, which started in March and ended in June, the situation in Italy got better and better. After June, the Covid cases decreased a lot and we had a “usual” summer, even if we were always with our new best friends the Personal protective equipment, PPE.
With the start of September, also the schools opened again, meaning millions of students using the public transport, the return at work for many people which also use the public transport every day, and that helped the increasing of the infection. At the end of October, the situation was back to be critical, with many deaths and infection every day. Schools in Italy have changed to face this situation, implementing the DAD (Didattica A Distanza), i.e. the distance learning. If the situation allows the possibility a percentual of students can go physically to school, while the rest of class stay at home.
From late October, there was a division of the regions of Italy in 3 colors:
-Yellow, where the contagion was low and the hospitals could support the burden of sick people.
-Orange, with a level of contagions higher and more pression on the hospital system
-Red region with a big number of contagions with a hospital system in possible crisis.
As today, February the 25, this method is still the one that Italy is using to face the COVID-19 epidemy, with some minor change like the theoretically White color for a region which have less than 50 cases every 100000 inhabitants, in which all the restriction are removed, except for the social distancing and the use of PPE, with locals, gyms, theatres are all open. In practice, no region in Italy is even close to reach this situation.
Today there are still many restrictions as in Italy as in other UE states, like curfew at 10 p.m, closing of areas of social interaction like pubs, bars, restaurants, discos, theatres and gyms. The restaurants and the bars can do takeaway and home delivery if they want. You can do outdoors sports always respecting the social distance and you have to be alone. Many gym and cinema could close if they don’t get a revenue soon, and they’re hoping to open even with strong and severe rules, but for our Italy government it is not the moment to reopen this kind of places, and the same for the world of entertainment.
We know that rules are for our wellness but also, we need the normality.
Today the key to success against the Virus it’s the vaccine. There are many organization problems for the distribution of that. There are many vaccines with different level of efficiency. The point is that no vaccine no party, so we are hoping that the UE and our government improve the production and give us the vaccine soon.
Sadly, the number of deaths is increasing every day and we are almost at 100000 deaths.
We hope to get out of this difficult situation soon.
Teniamo duro!
Davide
