Health Minister Roberto Speranza has
said the next 10 days will be crucial for the fight against
COVID-19 in Italy.
"The contagion curve is stabilizing," Speranza told daily
newspaper La Stampa.
"It is still too early to say but there are reasons to think
that the latest measures are giving some results.
"The next seven to 10 days will be decisive".
Earlier this month the government introduced a three-tier system
of restrictions based on a region's COVID risk: yellow, orange
and red.
At the weekend Campania and Tuscany went into lockdown after
being bumped up from being moderate risk COVID yellow zones to
high risk red zones, joining Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and
Val d'Aosta, plus the autonomous province of Bolzano.
Abruzzo, Umbria, Basilicata, Liguria, Puglia, Sicily, Emilia
Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Marche are orange zones and
face slight less stringent restrictions.
The rest of the country is moderate risk - yellow - although
Basilicata has closed its schools until December 2 and Abruzzo
looks set to go into lockdown.
Speranza also said that he does not expect mass COVID-19
vaccinations to take place until the second half of 2021.
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