On 24 April 2021, the Ministry of Health published three new ordinances to update regional colors across Italy. Among the changes, FVG and Veneto will become YELLOW zones. These changes take effect on Monday, 26 April 2021.

Accordingly, beginning 26 April 2021, the regional color breakdown will be:

YELLOW zones: Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Autonomous Province of Trento, Tuscany, Umbria

ORANGE zones:  Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia, Sicily and Valle d'Aosta

RED zone: Sardinia

WHITE zone: (no region)

RULES FOR WHITE REGIONS

*Curfew from 2200 to 0500 remains in effect*

FACE COVERINGS

Across Italy, carry a face covering with you when outside your home.

You must wear a face covering at all times when you are outside your home (in both indoor and outdoor locations), unless you can guarantee continued isolation from non-cohabitants.

This includes the following:

- Wearing a face-covering at all times in public transportation 

- Wearing a face-covering in private transportation if not traveling alone or with cohabitants.

- Wearing a face covering in a restaurant anytime you are not sitting at a table 

- Wearing a face covering when sitting or standing at a bar anytime you are not consuming food or drink

Exceptions
A face covering is not required to be worn by the following persons or in the following circumstances:

- Children under 6 years of age

- During exercise or sport

- When in your home (you are encouraged to wear face coverings if a non-cohabitant is present)

- When in a private yard outside your home, 

- When alone in a private office 

- While eating or drinking in a place and at a time allowed

- When you are alone or exclusively with cohabitants

- If you have a medical condition incompatible with wearing a face covering

- Operators or people who, in order to assist a person exempt from the obligation to wear a face covering, cannot in turn wear a face covering (for example, work with the hearing impaired that utilizes speech reading (or lip reading)).

Examples
Example A: If you are walking down a street or through a park, you would need to wear a face-covering because you cannot guarantee that you will remain one (1) meter from a non-cohabitant.

Example B: If you are hiking in the woods or a remote part of the mountains alone or with a cohabitant, then you would not need to wear a face-covering because you can remain isolated from non-cohabitants. (But remember, you should still have a face-covering with you and available to wear.)

Example C:  If you have a desk in an open workspace, such as a front office, or work in a hangar or garage where others can freely enter or pass by, you must wear a face covering.

Example D:  If you are traveling in a train car alone, you must wear a face covering because you cannot guarantee a railway employee or other passenger will not be present or is present without your noticing.

Face Covering Design
Face coverings must meet the following requirements:
1. Face coverings may be disposable or washable and may be self-made.
2. Face coverings should be made of multilayer materials, providing an appropriate barrier, but they should also be comfortable and breathable.
3. Face coverings cover from the chin all the way to above the nose.
4. Single-layer gaiters used as face coverings should be folded over to create two layers and meet the above requirements.

Fines
Fines for not wearing a face-covering or not wearing a face-covering properly range from 400€ to 1000€.

DISTANCING 
You must maintain a physical distance of at least one (1) meter from non-cohabitants.

Maintain two meters of distance if engaging in a sport.

Physical distance should be measured from the mouth to the mouth of the individuals concerned.

Gatherings, Meetings, Events

Events that involve gatherings in closed or open spaces are suspended.

Events that take place in ballrooms and discos and similar venues, outdoors or indoors are suspended.

Public events are suspended.

Sports

Competitions are suspended

RULES FOR YELLOW (TYPE 2) REGIONS *

MOVEMENT:
Travel between white and yellow zones is permitted. This means that if your home region is a white or yellow zone, you can travel to any white or yellow zone and back.

Note: Individuals traveling from a yellow or white zone are able to travel through red and orange zones to reach a yellow or white destination.

No green certificate or testing is required for travel between white/yellow zones.
 

Travel from a Yellow to an Orange or Red Zone

You can travel to a destination that is in an orange or red zone for the following reasons: work needs, in-person education, situations of necessity, health reasons, and to return home. Travelers to orange or red zones should carry a self-certification form with them.

Exception: Individuals in yellow zones who have a green certificate are allowed to travel to orange or red zones for any reason. This means that individuals with green certificates can travel to/from any region regardless of color.

Examples
Example A: My home region is in a yellow zone. I can go to any yellow zone or any white zone and back, for any reason, without green certificate/COVID test.

Example B: I live in Veneto and I have a doctor’s appointment in an orange zone. Can I travel to my medical appointment? Yes. Complete a self-declaration form stating you are traveling for health.

Visiting Others
From 26 April through 15 June: Four people may travel once a day to the private home of non-cohabitants (who can also only receive four non-cohabitating guests per day).

Travel (including return home) must occur between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and can only take place within a yellow zone.

Note: Minors on whom visitors exercise parental responsibility, persons with disabilities, and persons who are not self-sufficient, do not count toward the four-person maximum.
 

Curfew 
Across Italy, a national curfew is in effect which prohibits movement between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. every day. Between these hours, you may only leave your home for proven work needs, situations of necessity, or for health reasons.
 

Self-Declaration
A self-declaration form should be used to demonstrate permitted travel between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. or if traveling to a destination in an orange or red zone. The self-declaration form can be presented to law enforcement if stopped during these hours, and an Italian and English version of the self-declaration form can be found here .

Note: The Italian version may be filled out in English. Complete the Italian version of the self-certification form (using the English version as a template) before traveling.  

No self-declaration is required outside of the hours between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. when traveling within yellow regions.

 

FACE COVERINGS
Across Italy, carry a face covering with you when outside your home.

You must wear a face covering at all times when you are outside your home (in both indoor and outdoor locations), unless you can guarantee continued isolation from non-cohabitants.

This includes the following:

• Wearing a face-covering at all times in public transportation 
• Wearing a face-covering in private transportation if not traveling alone or with cohabitants.
• Wearing a face covering in a restaurant anytime you are not sitting at a table 
• Wearing a face covering when sitting or standing at a bar anytime you are not consuming food or drink

Exceptions 
A face covering is not required to be worn by the following persons or in the following circumstances:

• Children under 6 years of age
• During exercise or sport
• When in your home (you are encouraged to wear face coverings if a non-cohabitant is present)
• When in a private yard outside your home, 
• When alone in a private office 
• While eating or drinking in a place and at a time allowed
• When you are alone or exclusively with cohabitants
• If you have a medical condition incompatible with wearing a face covering
• Operators or people who, in order to assist a person exempt from the obligation to wear a face covering, cannot in turn wear a face covering (for example, work with the hearing impaired that utilizes speech reading (or lip reading)).

Examples
Example A: If you are walking down a street or through a park, you would need to wear a face-covering because you cannot guarantee that you will remain one (1) meter from a non-cohabitant.

Example B: If you are hiking in the woods or a remote part of the mountains alone or with a cohabitant, then you would not need to wear a face-covering because you can remain isolated from non-cohabitants. (But remember, you should still have a face-covering with you and available to wear.)

Example C:  If you have a desk in an open workspace, such as a front office, or work in a hangar or garage where others can freely enter or pass by, you must wear a face covering.

Example D:  If you are traveling in a train car alone, you must wear a face covering because you cannot guarantee a railway employee or other passenger will not be present or is present without your noticing.

Face Covering Design
Face coverings must meet the following requirements:
1. Face coverings may be disposable or washable and may be self-made.
2. Face coverings should be made of multilayer materials, providing an appropriate barrier, but they should also be comfortable and breathable.
3. Face coverings cover from the chin all the way to above the nose.
4. Single-layer gaiters used as face coverings should be folded over to create two layers and meet the above requirements.

Fines
Fines for not wearing a face-covering or not wearing a face-covering properly range from 400€ to 1000€.

 

DISTANCING 
You must maintain a physical distance of at least one (1) meter from non-cohabitants.

Maintain two meters of distance if engaging in a sport.

Physical distance should be measured from the mouth to the mouth of the individuals concerned.

 

OTHER HEALTH MEASURES
Those with a respiratory infection and a fever of 37.5℃/99.5℉ must remain at their residence and contact their healthcare provider.

Persons accompanying patients must remain in the waiting room of emergency and admission departments unless otherwise specified by the healthcare personnel in charge.

 

DINING & NIGHTLIFE
Restaurants, Bars, and Similar Establishments
Any establishment (such as restaurants and bars) can offer outdoor table service from 5:00 a.m. to 22:00.

Beginning 1 June 2021, any establishment can offer indoor table service from 5:00 a.m. to 18:00,

Only four (4) non-cohabitants can sit at a table (more than four cohabitants, however, can sit together). Similarly, you cannot eat food or drink in public places (other than bars, restaurants, ice cream parlors) after 6:00 p.m.

Home delivery from restaurants, bars, and other eating/drinking establishments can take place 24 hours a day.

Bars, however, cannot offer takeaway after 1800.  

Establishments can make home delivery available 24 hours a day and can make take-away available from 5:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., but no eating or drinking on the spot or nearby. 

Restaurants in hotels and similar accommodation facilities can serve customers lodging at those facilities without time limits.

Food and beverage outlets located in the service and refueling areas along motorways, hospitals and airports can remain open.

While there are no time restrictions for home delivery of food and drink, you must ensure that you adhere to the appropriate physical distance (1 meter) during the delivery process.

As noted in the Face Covering section above, when at a restaurant, you do not need to wear a face covering while seated at a table to eat or drink, but you must wear a face covering every time you get up from the table. Similarly, when consuming food or drink at a bar, you do not have to wear a face covering while consuming food or drink, but you must wear a face covering when you are done consuming food or drink.

 

Dancing
Activities that take place in dancehalls, discos, and similar establishments remain suspended.

 

GATHERINGS, MEETINGS & EVENTS
It is strongly recommended not to have non-cohabitant visit your home, except for work needs or situations of necessity and urgency.

Parties are prohibited both indoors and outdoors, including those that follow civil and religious ceremonies.

Streets or squares may be closed at all times or for specific portions of the day or night; however, people can still access and exit open commercial establishments and private homes even if the street or square is closed.

Public events, including ceremonies, are allowed only in static form.  Physical distancing and other health measures and protocols must be followed.

Festivals and fairs of any kind, as well as other similar events, are prohibited until 15 June 2021.

Conferences, congresses, and other events are suspended, with the exception of those that take place remotely, until 1 July 2021.

Theme parks are closed, until 1 July 2021.

It is strongly recommended that you conduct all meetings (including private meetings) remotely unless the meeting's circumstances or nature require meeting face-to-face.

Gatherings are prohibited.

 

SHOPPING & SERVICES
Shopping centers, malls, and similar establishments will be closed on weekends and holidays.

Hairdressers, beauticians, and barbershops, food stores (grocery stores), pharmacies, parapharmacies, newsstands, laundries, dry cleaners, bookstores, and tobacconists can remain open on weekends and holidays.
 
Retail stores must stagger entry, and people cannot remain in the store longer than required to accomplish their business.

 

CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT
Museums and libraries may open Monday through Friday (excluding public holidays). Daily attendance will be limited and must in all cases ensure a distance of at least one (1) meter between patrons.

Museums and libraries may be open on weekends provided that visitors book their visit online or by telephone at least one day in advance.

Shows in theatrical halls, concert halls, cinemas, live-clubs, and other venues or spaces, are permitted.

Venues must pre-assign seats and ensure spectators who are not cohabiting maintain a meter distance from each other.

Venues are limited to 50% capacity.

• The number of indoor spectators in a room cannot exceed 500.
• Outdoor venues are limited to 1000 spectators.

The use of arcades, betting rooms, bingo halls and casinos is suspended, even if they are carried out in premises used for different activities.

 

SCHOOLS
In-person instruction is permitted for infants, kindergartens, elementary schools, and middle schools at 100% capacity.

In-person instruction is permitted for upper middle and high schools at 100% capacity.

Through 31 July, universities and art (music and dance) institutions can resume in person instruction.

 

SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Any sporting activity, including team and contact sports, is allowed outdoors. Indoor activity remains suspended.

The use of changing rooms remains prohibited.

Maintain two meters of distance if engaging in a sport or exercise and one meter of distance for any other activity.

Swimming pools remain closed until 15 May 2021.

Gyms remain closed until 1 June 2021.

Spas remain closed, until 1 July 2021.

Ski lifts are closed.   

 

LITURGICAL AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
Places of worship remain open; however, each organization must take measures to avoid gatherings and ensure that non-cohabitating individuals and groups can maintain a physical distance of one (1) meter.

Receptions or celebrations following a religious ceremony, including weddings, confirmations, and baptisms, are prohibited.

TRANSPORTATION
Public transportation in Italy will be limited to 50% capacity.

Individuals may have non-cohabitants in their car as long as the driver is the only person in the front part of the car, and there are no more than two passengers in each row of rear seats. Everyone in the car must wear a face covering. 

RULES APPLIED TO ORANGE (TYPE 3) REGIONS
Please note that although some key rules from the Yellow region rules above are reiterated here, all of the measures applicable to Yellow (Type 2) regions continue to apply in orange regions, unless a more restrictive rule is announced below:

 

MOVEMENT
Movement outside of your municipality of residence is prohibited unless for proven work, in-person education, necessity, health reasons, to carry out needed activities or use needed services that are not suspended and unavailable in your municipality or residence, or to return home.

Movements made for a permitted reason do not require a green certificate or testing. Carry a self-certification form when moving outside you municipality of residence.

Green Certificate Exception: individuals with green certificates are allowed to travel to/from orange zones to/from any other color zone. This means that individuals with green certificates will be able to travel to/from any region regardless of color.

“Small Town” Exception
If you live in a municipality with 5,000 inhabitants or less, then you can travel freely within a 30km radius of your municipal borders (excluding travel to the provincial capitals) between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. In other words, you may treat this 30km radius as though it is your municipality, and this includes travel to visit to a private home as described in the Visiting Others section below. You do not need to carry a self-declaration with you when traveling within the 30km radius, but you should provide one if requested by authorities (they may provide you with a self-declaration form to complete).

Additionally, while interregional travel is generally prohibited, if you live in a municipality with 5,000 inhabitants or less and the 30km radius from your municipal border crosses into another region, you may cross the regional border as long as you stay within the 30km radius.

Use of Services or Activities Outside Your Municipality
The use of unsuspended services or conduct of unsuspended activities not available in your municipality is limited to obtaining specific needs or requirements.

Shopping for a needed item is always a justification for travel. Therefore, where your municipality does not have a store that sells a needed item or provides a needed service, then you may travel outside your municipality to the nearest location that provides that good or service.

Additionally, you may always go to an adjacent municipality to buy a basic necessity simply if a store provides significant economic advantage (e.g., you will save tens of dollars). A list of adjacent municipalities is located here.

Also, remember if you fall into the “small town” exception above, you can always treat the 30km radius as your own municipality with regard to movement.

Examples
Example A: I live in Municipality A, and we don't have a hardware store. Can I travel to Municipality B to go to the hardware store?
Yes. A hardware store is an unsuspended service not available in your municipality that holds items needed to care for your home and continue daily life. Consequently, you can travel outside of your municipality to get the items you need from that store. Just use a self-declaration form when you travel.

Example B: Can I travel outside of my municipality to get to the base to get my mail?
Yes. Your APO mailbox and our mail service are an unsuspended service unavailable in your municipality, so you can travel to base to get your mail.

Example C: The grocery stores in my municipality do not carry tortilla chips. Can I travel outside of my municipality to get these chips?
No. While food is generally an item of necessity that would justify travel, obtaining a specific brand of food or style of non-essential item would not justify movement outside of your municipality.

Example D: My child has music lessons in a neighboring municipality, can I take my child to the lesson?
Yes. These services are not available with the child’s teacher in your municipality and are a part of childhood development and education. One parent can travel to a neighboring municipality to take the child to the lesson. The same would apply to attend lessons at a sports club at which the child is a member and the sport/individual lessons are currently permitted.

Visiting Others
From 26 April 2021 through 15 June 2021, four adults may travel once a day to the private home of non-cohabitants (who can also only receive four non-cohabitating guests per day). Travel must occur between 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. (including return home) and can only take place within your municipality of residence. Minors, disabled persons, and those who are not self-sufficient do not count toward the four-person maximum.

Curfew
Across Italy, a national curfew is in effect which prohibits movement between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. every day. Between these hours, you may only leave your home for proven work needs, situations of necessity, or for health reasons.

Self-Declaration
You only need to use a self-declaration form to demonstrate justified travel between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. or if traveling outside your municipality (or outside of the 30km radius for those that fit into the “small town” exception). 

The self-declaration form can be presented to law enforcement if stopped in one of the above circumstances, and an Italian and English version of the self-declaration form can be found here .

Note: The Italian version may be filled out in English. Complete the Italian version of the self-certification form (using the English version as a template) before traveling.  

 

FACE COVERINGS

No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above

 

DISTANCING

No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above

 

OTHER HEALTH MEASURES

No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above

 

DINING & NIGHTLIFE

Restaurants, Bars, and Similar Establishments
Table service at bars, pubs, restaurants, ice cream parlors and pastry shops are suspended.

Home delivery from restaurants, bars, and other eating/drinking establishments can take place 24 hours a day. 

Restaurants can make home delivery available 24 hours a day and can make take-away available from 5:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., but no eating or drinking on the spot or nearby.

Bars, pubs, and similar establishments can also make home delivery available 24 hours a day and can make take-away available from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., but no eating or drinking on the spot or nearby.

Restaurants in hotels and similar accommodation facilities can serve customers lodging at those facilities without time limits.

Food and beverage outlets located in the service and refueling areas along motorways, hospitals and airports can remain open.

While there are no time restrictions for home delivery of food and drink, you must ensure that you adhere to the appropriate physical distance (1 meter) during the delivery process.

As noted in the Face Covering section above, when at a restaurant, you do not need to wear a face covering while seated at a table to eat or drink, but you must wear a face covering every time you get up from the table.  Similarly, when consuming food or drink at a bar, you do not have to wear a face covering while consuming food or drink, but you must wear a face covering when you are done consuming food or drink.
 

Dancing

Activities that take place in dancehalls, discos, and similar establishments remain suspended.

 

GATHERINGS, MEETINGS & EVENTS

No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above

 

SHOPPING & SERVICES

Shopping centers, malls, and similar establishments can remain open during weekdays, but will be closed on holidays and weekends.

Hairdressers, beauticians, and barbershops, food stores (grocery stores), pharmacies, parapharmacies, newsstands, and tobacconists can remain open on holidays and weekends.

 

CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT

Museums are closed, but libraries can be accessed by reservation.

 

SCHOOLS
From 26 April through the end of the school year, in person teaching for students up to 6th grade is permitted at 100% capacity.

From 26 April through the end of the school year, in person teaching for upper middle and high schools is permitted at 100% capacity

From 26 April through 31 July, universities and art (music and dance) institutions can resume in person instruction.

 

SPORTS & EXERCISE

You may go to public and private sports centers and clubs within your own municipality or, in the absence of such structures, to the closest neighboring municipality, to carry out basic sports activities exclusively outdoors, in compliance with the rules of social distancing and without any gathering. This means that people wishing to engage in a sport that is not available in their municipality of residence can travel from their municipality of residence to the closest available location where they can do that sport.

Example A: if there are no tennis courts in your municipality, you can go to the closest location where there are tennis courts, as long as it is in the same region or autonomous province.

It is also possible, in carrying out a sporting activity that involves a movement (for example running or cycling), to enter another Municipality, provided that this movement remains functional only to the sporting activity itself and the final destination coincides with the Municipality of departure.

Remember: for municipalities with a population of 5,000 or fewer inhabitants, you can travel freely within a 30km radius of your municipal borders (excluding travel to the provincial capitals).

Gyms, swimming pools, spas, and wellness centers remain closed.

Contact sports are prohibited.

Exception

Professionals and non-professionals, who must participate in competitions and events of national importance recognized by CONI or CIP (Olympic or a national sports federation).

Training for contact sports at clubs, schools, or other sports and training facilities is prohibited, and sporting events and competitions of individual and team sports are prohibited.

Exception

It is allowed to carry out the related training sessions and activities, including training for team sports, which can take place individually, outdoors and on an individual level, always respecting the appropriate physical distance.

Outdoor exercise, jogging, and running is permitted, and these activities can continue only outdoors at public or private sports facilities, including the base track. You may also carry out other basic exercise activities exclusively outdoors. In all cases these activities must be in compliance with the rules of social distancing and conducted without any gathering. 

Maintain two meters of distance if engaging in a sport or exercise and one meter of distance for any other activity.

LITURGICAL & RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
Places of worship remain open; however, each organization must take measures to avoid gatherings and ensure that non-cohabitating individuals and groups can maintain a physical distance of one (1) meter.

You may travel outside of your municipality, if needed, to reach the place of worship for your faith that is nearest your home (this would also include reaching an English speaking place of worship for your faith). Additionally, places of worship can also be reached when moving for proven work needs or necessities, and which are along the route already planned. Travel can be justified by the work need or necessity. 

Receptions or celebrations following a religious ceremony, including weddings, confirmations, and baptisms, are prohibited.

 

TRANSPORTATION
No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above.

RULES APPLIED TO RED (TYPE 4) REGIONS***
Territories with the highest COVID-19 risk will be designated as Red (Type 4).  Please note that although some key rules from the Yellow (Type 2)  and Orange (Type 3) region rules above are reiterated here, all of the measures applicable to Yellow and Orange regions continue to apply in red regions, unless a more restrictive rule is announced below:
 

MOVEMENT.
Movement outside of your private home and yard is prohibited except for work, in-person education, health reasons, necessity (for example, to purchase necessary goods/services, pickup USPS mail), or return home.

Green Certificate Exception: individuals with green certificates are allowed to travel to/from red zones to/from any other color zone. This means that individuals with green certificates will be able to travel to/from any region regardless of color.

Exceptions

Shopping for needed items is always a justification for travel. Therefore, where your Municipality does not have a store that sells a needed item or provides a needed service, then you may travel outside your municipality to the nearest location that provides that good or service.

Additionally, you may always go to an adjacent municipality to buy a basic necessity simply if a store provides significant economic advantage (e.g., you will save tens of dollars).  A list of adjacent municipalities is located here.
 

Examples
Example A: My municipality does not have an automobile repair shop and I need to get my brakes fixed.  Can I travel to the nearest automobile repair shop?  Yes, required automobile repairs would be a necessity that could justify movement beyond your municipality.

Example B:  I would really like a candy bar can I run to the corner store to get one?  If you do not have a particular health need for the candy bar, then no; that would not qualify as a need that would justify movement within the municipality. 

 

Curfew
Across Italy, a national curfew is in effect which prohibits movement between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. every day. Between these hours, you may only leave your home for proven work needs, situations of necessity, or for health reasons.
 

Self-Declaration
You will need to carry a self-declaration form when traveling within your municipality during curfew and non-curfew hours (Curfew is from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.) as well as for any permitted travel outside of your region.

The self-declaration form can be presented to law enforcement if stopped in one of the above circumstances, and an Italian and English version of the self-declaration form can be found here .

The truthfulness of the self-declarations is subject to subsequent checks, and false declaration constitutes a crime.

Note: The Italian version may be filled out in English. Complete the Italian version of the self-certification form (using the English version as a template) before traveling.

 

VISITS
Travel to private dwellings other than one's own are not allowed, unless they are due to work, necessity or health reasons.

 

FACE COVERINGS
See rules for Yellow regions above

 

DISTANCING
No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above

 

OTHER HEALTH MEASURES
No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above

 

DINING & NIGHTLIFE
No change from Orange. See rules for Orange regions above

Note: You can leave your home/private yard to pick up takeaway, as getting food qualifies as a necessity.

 

SHOPPING & SERVICES
All retail stores (small and large), shopping centers, and markets will be closed.

Markets are closed, except for those vendors that sell foodstuffs, agricultural, and horticultural products

 

Exceptions
Stores that sell food and basic necessities can remain open.  This includes newsstands, tobacconists, pharmacies and para-pharmacies. A complete list of permitted commercial activities is available on Annex 23.

Dry cleaners and laundry facilities can remain open.

Personal services (including barbers and hairdressers) are suspended.

 

CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
Museums are closed, but libraries can be accessed by reservation.

 

SCHOOLS
In-person instruction can resume for infants, kindergartens, elementary schools, and sixth grade.

Through the end of the school year, in person teaching for upper middle and high schools can resume at up to 75% capacity in red zones.

In person teaching is permitted for courses requiring laboratory work as well as for students with disabilities or special needs.

From 26 April through 31 July, universities can continue in person teaching for first year courses.

 

SPORTS & EXERCISE
Indoor and outdoor sports facilities (including the base track and outdoor exercise equipment) will be closed.

You are allowed to exercise (e.g., run, jog, etc.) and carry out sport activities individually outdoors in the vicinity of your home.

Individuals engaged in permitted exercise activities must maintain at least a one-meter distance from other persons and are recommended to carry a self-declaration form stating the reason for their movement (i.e., exercise).

A parent or caretaker may have a child with them when exercising individually and may access parks with children.

You do not need to wear a face covering while exercising.

You are also allowed to go on a walk outdoors in the vicinity of your home, but must wear a proper face covering, maintain a one meter distance from non-cohabitants, and should carry a self-declaration stating the reason for movement.

You may take your pet outside to relieve itself.

 

LITURGICAL & RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
Places of worship remain open; however, each organization must take measures to avoid gatherings and ensure that non-cohabitating individuals and groups can maintain a physical distance of one (1) meter.

You may travel to reach the place of worship for your faith that is nearest your home (this would also include reaching an English speaking place of worship for your faith). Additionally, places of worship can also be reached when also moving for proven work needs or necessities, and which are along the route already planned. Travel can be justified by the work need or necessity. 

Receptions or celebrations following a religious ceremony, including weddings, confirmations, and baptisms, are prohibited.

 

TRANSPORTATION
No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above