Cancellations and canceled holidays, Omicron hits Christmas and New Year

There are 8 million Italians who have decided to give up travel and holidays between Christmas and New Year according to the year-end holiday bag of Demoscopics. 24 million people have chosen not to leave. 12.4% still fear traveling. 16%, 8 million people, canceled their booking due to a change Omicron. The most pessimistic forecasts come to 11 million cancellations.

According to data from the Gimbe foundation, the number of new cases of Covid-19 in Italy grew by 42.3% in 7 days, with a net increase of 33% in deaths. Cases among children are also increasing. Undersecretary of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri explains: “For every 10 thousand children infected, 65 go to hospital and unfortunately one of them dies.”

There are therefore the increased cases behind the many cancellations that have arrived at hotels and restaurants. There are many quarantines of children with positive cases in the class that also block the rest of the families. There are more and more stringent rules and that change even at the last and even just from area to area. There are also many passages of regions in the yellow zone for which they tighten the shirts and in restaurants, for example, those who do not have the Super Green Pass cannot go.

A study ofImperial College London confirms a lower rate of hospitalizations with the Omicron variant, but a rate of spread of the virus twice that of previous variants and a lower response to the vaccine. However, the many cases block movements and tourism, as well as the limits of entry into Italy: negative buffer for vaccinated people, quarantine for those who are not.

The first to stop were the mayors and presidents of the regions they have canceled concerts and street parties especially for New Year’s Eve. Then it was the turn of the foreigners to cancel the reservations in the mountains and in the cities of art. The restaurants, mindful of last year’s experience, have also turned to proposals in delivery.