Italy to extend closure of schools, to protect strategic companies
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At the end of a Cabinet meeting at Palazzo Chigi, Giuseppe Conte, where all those present, including him, were wearing masks and gloves, said that the first priority remains avoiding the collapse of the system.
He added that the restrictive measures are working but that there is no option that both the closing of a lot of the country’s business and individual activities, and the schools, will be extended.
He added that now there are no other far-reaching restrictive measures, but if the prohibitions are not respected the authorities will have to act.
The Italian Prime Minister also added that “We are more than satisfied with all the steps taken so far, steps that have been inspired by at least four principles: transparency, because we do not hide anything from citizens, and those who do it in other countries risk regretting it bitterly; maximum rigor, because we have not underestimated anything and always taken the worst-case scenarios as indicators; adequacy of the measures and finally proportionality, without which the Italians, accustomed to great individualism and deep-rooted civil liberties, would not have been able to stand, given that we are not in China and we do not live in a centralized state”.
The meeting with ministers and some heads of delegation was made to implement in the shortest possible time the measures of the latest decree , those 25 billion euros that partly go to the health sector, partly to that of the workforce , to support both the hospital system which is productive and which apparently will be followed by at least one other economic decree in April. But the head of government also revealed that another decree , that of the internal economic policy and that will be the biggest measure of the last decades in terms of simplification of procedures and investments and which Italy has an almost desperate need among other things to protect what is important to the country.
