Conte: In new dpcm we plan to close exhibitions and museums across Italy

As anticipated by MiBACT Minister Dario Franceschini last night in an interview on the program Che Tempo che fa on Rai3 hosted by Fabio Fazio, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also said in his speech in the House this morning that the new Dpcm will include new restrictive measures throughout the country: among them, the closure of exhibitions and museums.

The prime minister explained this morning in the House the measures contained in the new dpcm, which is expected to be signed tomorrow or Wednesday: there will be differentiated measures, on a regional basis, introduced because of the risk calculated for the individual region, and some national measures.

“In light of the latest report that was prepared last Friday and was also illustrated at a press conference, and the situation certified by it, which is diffusely serious on the national territory and particularly critical in some regions,” Conte said, “we are forced to intervene, with a view to prudence and maximum precaution, to implement additional measures to pursue a more stringent containment and mitigation strategy of the contagion. This strategy must necessarily be modulated according to the different criticalities detected in the territories, graduating the severity of the measures in view of the higher circulation of the virus and the higher risk of tightness of health services. We therefore consider it necessary to make a decision oriented to the principles of proportionality and adequacy, contemplating new restrictive interventions modulated and differentiated on the basis of the level of risk concretely detected in the territories.”

“On the basis of predefined, objective scientific criteria developed by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the Ministry of Health and the Conference of Regions and real university research centers,” the premier specified, “it will be necessary to introduce a differentiated regime based on the different regional scenarios. Consistent with the plan, the next dpcm will identify three areas corresponding to as many risk scenarios, for each of which gradually more restrictive measures are envisaged. The inclusion of a region within the three areas, with the consequent automatic application of the measures provided for that specific band will take place by order of the Minister of Health and will objectively depend on the risk coefficient reached by the region.”

As mentioned, some measures will affect the entire national territory (“for the entire national territory, where high risk levels are not reported,” Conte explained, “we intend to intervene only with some specific measures that will help strengthen that containment plan and the mitigation of the contagion that we are already pursuing with the three dpcms, in particular with the last one”): among these measures is also the closure of museums and exhibitions (“they will close, alas, also exhibitions and museums,” Conte said). The other measures: closure of shopping centers on public holidays (with the exception of pharmacies, parapharmacies, grocery stores, tobacconists, and newsstands inside shopping centers), “because of the greater attractiveness that these spaces arouse particularly on weekends,” closure of game and video game corners, reduction to 50 percent of local public transportation, limitation of travel to and from regions with high risk coefficients (except for reasons of necessity), limits on the movement of people in the later evening hours (again unless there is a proven need), full distance education for high schools (“hoping that this measure is well temporary”).

Conte: In new dpcm we plan to close exhibitions and museums across Italy

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