With the new year comes yet another update of the anti-Covid measures to deal with the fourth wave of the pandemic and the spread of the Omicron variant. The Council of Ministers approved two decrees within a week, one on the 23rd and the other on December 30th.
Here is the calendar of news from January 1st to the end of March, when the state of emergency expires, which has been going on from extension to extension for two years now.
JANUARY 1, CHANGE THE QUARANTINE - Three categories for the quarantine of close contacts of positive people. No quarantine for asymptomatic patients who received the booster dose or completed the primary vaccination course (or recovered) in the previous 4 months. For them only a period of self-monitoring of five days, with communication of any symptoms that have arisen to their doctor. However, these subjects will be obliged to wear the Ffp2 mask for at least ten days.
Those who have been vaccinated for more than 4 months, if asymptomatic and come into close contact with a positive for the virus, will have to do a five-day quarantine. No changes for the unvaccinated, the ten-day quarantine remains for them.
JANUARY 3, OVER HALF ITALY IN YELLOW - Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio and Sicily are added to the list of regions in the yellow zone, namely Calabria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Marche, Veneto and the autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento. the yellow Regions thus become 11, a progressive increase that indicates how the increase in infections is starting to weigh on the number of hospitalizations and intensive care. The latest decrees have effectively canceled the old differences between the white and yellow areas. But the change in yellow is a prelude to the possible orange zone, which would entail further restrictions for the unvaccinated, such as being unable to leave their municipality of residence.
