Franceschini anticipates upcoming measures: 'museums will also close'

With the upcoming restrictions to limit the spread of the Covid-19 infection, museums will also be closed. This was anticipated a few minutes ago by the minister of cultural heritage, Dario Franceschini, in an interview with the program Che tempo che fa on Rai Tre. Responding to host Fabio Fazio’s question as to why theaters were closed but not museums, Franceschini responded in these terms, “In the museum you enter one at a time with spacing and in very limited numbers, but now with the steps forward we will take museums will also close.” It is therefore to be expected that as early as tomorrow there could be initiatives in this regard.

It remains to be seen, however, whether the closure will be for all of Italy or for individual situations. In fact, to the next question, on the direction that will be given tomorrow by the new dpcm, Franceschini, while not unbalancing himself (“it would not be correct to anticipate the measures at the moment when we are discussing them: there is a game in the media that confuses people and instills a sense of uncertainty”), he said that “the philosophy we are thinking about imagines strengthening measures throughout the country, but in particular stronger measures for regions that have a contagion index above 1.5, which is the parameter studied in the past months and indicated in a document approved by the regions and the government that provides that when you exceed a certain threshold in those regions you have to reason with stronger measures, so we are reasoning about this differentiated mechanism, with measures that are related to the risks of contagion and the risks of saturation of the hospital system, which is the greatest urgency that we have before us.”

However, the minister’s line is very clear: health risk management takes priority over everything.

Franceschini anticipates upcoming measures: 'museums will also close'

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