![]() ![]() Measures to preserve employment levels and income This allowed, among others, the timely acquisition of assisted ventilation equipment and protective face masks. The Government also streamlined the purchasing procedures for medical protection equipment. Rules allowed, if necessary, the requisition of private facilities and properties in order to enhance medical facilities and health care networks across the Country. More specifically, the Government proceeded immediately to hire medicals and nursing personnel to reinforce the units of military health care services and to involve private hospitals. The Government mobilised all needed resources to ensure staffing and tools for the Health Care System, the Civil Protection Department and law enforcement bodies in order to assist people affected by the disease and prevent, mitigate and contain the epidemic. Measures to strengthen the National Health Care system and the Civil Protection Department The legislation is under a constantly updating process. The measures explained below refer to the rules provided by the mentioned laws. Governmental rules provide for a series of measures, among others, to support National Health Care system, Civil Protection Department and other public bodies involved in the emergency, employment and workers to protect their work and income, companies, local authorities, Third Sector, schools and families. Such measures show the state of play of the outbreak: “Cure Italy” Decree-Law is facing with “Phase One” providing several strict measures against COVID-19, for instance, the lockdown and the quarantine, and “Relaunch” Decree-Law is facing with “Phase Two” providing mainly economic and financial measures and mitigating the stringent measures containing in “Cure Italy” decree. One of the first decrees is Decree-Law No 18 of 17th March 2020, so-called “Cure Italy”, followed by various other laws, like Decree-Law No 33 of the 16th May 2020, so-called “Relaunch”. Borders among regions were also reopened.įurthermore, the Government has temporarily accepted immigrants working in farm and houses, allowing them to access health care and other services as legal residents of Italy. Nevertheless, the softer lockdown of “Phase 2” keeps, anyway, high prevention and protection criteria for people and workers, like putting face masks and respecting 1-meter distance among people.Īfter the 3rd June, most businesses have reopened, like manufacturing and construction sectors, bars, hairdressers and barber shops, retail activities (apart from shops already authorised, like those selling food, personal hygiene products, pharmacies and tobacconists) like clothing stores, book stores and others, public transport. This led to a “Phase 2” softer lockdown, and the issuing of the “Relaunch” law decree. ![]() The gradual easing of Italy's lockdown started on 4th May 2020 with the reopening of manufacturing and other activities. In “Phase 1” a strong lockdown has been imposed to people requiring them to “stay home” municipalities borders, schools, universities, public and private offices have been closed in order to fight against Coronavirus. Measures issued by the Government have been gradually applied on the basis of the emergency status. MEASURES APPLIED BY THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT With the aim to combat such a virus, the Italian Government issued several decree-laws providing measures to tackle the crisis from a health and economic point of view. Therefore, the Italian Government, after the first precautionary measures, adopted immediately starting from January 2020, proclaimed the state of emergency and started to implement measures to effectively fight against the epidemic. The infection, first limited to in Northern Italy, spread to almost all other regions. Italy rapidly became one of the most affected countries in the world. A pandemic is a disease that is spreading in many countries around the world at the same time. So, just over two months the global scenario radically changed and we have had to adapt to the new reality in the virus emergency, also called COVID-19 emergency.Ĭoronavirus outbreak has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). We would never have thought at the time that this virus, apparently so far away, could have spread and caused many problems at individual and collective level, for health and economic systems also in Italy. When Italians were thinking about good intentions and proposals for the New Year, a new unexpected virus, highly contagious and completely unknown to our immune system, started circulating in certain parts of the world. ![]()
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