Already in the second half of May, at the announcement of the reopening and the arrival of the white areas, a farewell to masks was assumed, at least outdoors, for the middle of summer. With the progress of the vaccination campaign and the arrival of summer, the date seems to be approaching. L’goodbye to the obligation to wear a mask even outdoors it could arrive on July 15th or in the following weeks, therefore in the month of August.
Anna Teresa Palamara, who heads the infectious diseases department of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, was a possibility a week ago. “It is being discussed and the conditions may exist,” he said in an interview with the newspaper The print“But, even when we remove it, it will be important to continue to behave appropriately, respecting the distance, intercepting respiratory symptoms as soon as they emerge, ready to identify any positive cases and trace contacts”.
Even last summer, with distance and outdoors, it was not mandatory to wear a mask. The data points in that direction. Also this week the national Rt index is low, steady as 7 days ago at 0.68. From Monday, thanks to the improvement of the data, they become white the Province of Trento, Lombardy, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Puglia. There will therefore be almost 40 million Italians who live in areas where only the obligation of masks and distancing remain, in addition to the closure of discos.
If the data continue with this trend (3 consecutive weeks with less than 50 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants), from 21 June Tuscany, Sicily, the Marches, the Province of Bolzano, Basilicata, Calabria and Campania will go blank. On the 28th the Aosta Valley will complete the peninsula.
A key figure will be that of vaccine. In Italy, nearly 27 million people received the first dose. To enlarge the meshes and have the mask removed, at least 50% of the population should have received at least the first dose of vaccine. Considering that the Italians are just over 60 million, the goal is near. The United States has chosen this route by allowing vaccinated people to remove their masks also as an incentive to vaccinate.
The obligation to wear the mask indoors will remain. It will probably also be there in the fall. For the school a return with the obligation has already been announced.
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