This means that non-essential shops can reopen until 10:00 pm, and restaurants and bars can reopen until 6:00 pm.
People are also free to move around as long as they remain within their region of origin – this limitation is the “reinforced” part.
A nationwide night curfew, running from 10:00 pm until 5:00 am, remains in force.
Italy will be an “orange zone” over the weekend, meaning non-essential shops can be open but restaurants and bars must close, except for takeaway services.
Then next week, the nation will go back to its three-tiered lockdown system that was in force before the Christmas holidays, in which restrictions will be imposed at a regional level on the basis of whether the area’s contagion is high (red), medium-high (orange) or moderate (yellow).
The regions will be classified on the basis of data in the weekly monitoring report of the health ministry and the Higher Health Institute (ISS), which is set to be released on Friday.
