by In Trieste
Friuli Venezia Giulia, along with Veneto, Emilia Romagna and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano have been mapped by the European Union as “dark red areas”.
This was confirmed by the EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, after receiving the results of a simulation of the new contagion map in the EU created by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc).
For Friuli-Venezia Giulia this indication means, among other things, for the inhabitants to submit to the obligation of testing and quarantine in order to travel to the EU.
“The new risk category”, explains Reynders, “applies to areas where the 14-day infection notification rate is 500 or more.”
FVG’s president Massimiliano Fedriga responded with indignation saying that this “erroneous contagion mapping mechanism will cause damage to our region’s touristic sector among others”. He added that “we cannot accept a mapping which is not based on the shared scientific data. For this reason we will ask the Italian state to act immediately to protect other Italian regions.”
