Updated 02/23/2021 @ 5 p.m.
For YELLOW+, follow all of the Yellow Region rules below. Additionally, travel between regions, regardless of color, is prohibited through 27 March 2021 (exceptions: work needs, in-person education, situations of necessity, health reasons, and to return home).
Current Regional Status Yellow+
Regional Travel Ban Update On 22 Feb 21, the Italian national government announced their intent to extend the travel ban between regions for another 30 days. This means that individuals will not be able to cross regional borders until after 27 Mar 21. All previous exceptions to the travel ban remain in effect: work needs, in-person education, situations of necessity, health reasons, and to return home. FVG and VENETO remain YELLOW+.
Curfew hours between 2200 and 0500 and all other yellow/orange/red region rules remain in effect until at least 5 March 21.
See a complete summary of Region rules below.
A new "white" region designation will be established. This will apply to regions with a "low" risk level and an incidence of infections lower than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants for three consecutive weeks. White regions will have the fewest restrictions. Note: no region is currently designated white.
RULES FOR YELLOW (TYPE 2) REGIONS * MOVEMENT:
Ban on Interregional Travel Travel between regions, regardless of color, is prohibited from 16 January through 27 March 2021.
Exceptions Between these dates, you can only travel outside of the region in which you reside for work needs, in-person education, situations of necessity, health reasons, and to return home.
Examples Example A: I live in Veneto, work at Aviano AB in FVG. Can I travel to work? Yes. Complete a self-declaration form stating you are traveling for work. You can also show your CAC card if stopped.
Example B: I live in FVG, but I would like to go over to Veneto to have dinner at a restaurant. Can I do that? No. Even if restaurants are open in the Veneto region, you can only leave the region where you live for work, necessity, in-person education, health needs, or to return home.
Visiting Others Two adults may travel once a day to the private home of non-cohabitants (who can also only receive two 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 your region of residence. Children under 14 and disabled persons needing assistance do not count toward the two-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 outside your region of residence. 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.
It is strongly recommended that you not travel by public or private transport during the day except for work, study, health reasons, necessity, or to use unsuspended services or conduct unsuspended activities. However, no self-declaration is required outside of the hours between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. when traveling within your region of residence.
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. In FVG, you must wear a face covering at all time you are outside your home. This includes the following:
Exceptions A face covering is not required to be worn by the following persons or in the following circumstances:
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 Restaurants, bars, and similar establishments can offer table service from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. In FVG, after 11:00 a.m. all on premises consumption of food/drinks must be at a table.
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 after 6:00 p.m. 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 after 6:00 p.m. 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.
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. Festivals and fairs of any kind, as well as other similar events, are prohibited. Public events, including ceremonies, are allowed only in static form. Physical distancing and other health measures and protocols must be followed. Conferences, congresses, and other events are suspended, with the exception of those that take place remotely. 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, 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.
Shows open to the public in theaters, concert halls, cinemas and other spaces, even outdoors, are suspended. 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 High schools will use 100% distance learning.
Exceptions High school students may continue to use laboratories in-person when necessary.
Additionally, high school students with special education needs can attend courses for in-person teaching.
NOTE: 31st Fighter Wing leadership is working closely with DoDEA schools. We will keep you informed as plans develop. Wearing a face covering is mandatory at all times (even while children are seated at their desks), except for children under six (6) years of age.
SPORTS AND EXERCISE Gyms, swimming pools, spas, and wellness centers remain closed. (Note: New rules may be issued after 5 Mar 21).
Contact sports are prohibited. 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 may continue only outdoors at public or private sports facilities as well, 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. Ski lifts are closed until at least 27 March 2021. Additional rules regarding ski lifts may be issued at that time.
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.
“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
Two adults may travel once a day to the private home of non-cohabitants (who can also only receive two 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. Children under 14 and disabled persons needing assistance do not count toward the two-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 region of residence (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 .
FACE COVERINGS
No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above
DISTANCING
OTHER HEALTH MEASURES
Restaurants, Bars, and Similar Establishments Table service at bars, pubs, restaurants, ice cream parlors and pastry shops is 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 after 6:00 p.m.
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
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
SPORTS & EXERCISE Gyms, swimming pools, spas, and wellness centers remain closed. (Note: New rules may be issued after 5 Mar 21).
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.
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.
You may go to public and private sports centers and clubs within your own municipality or, in the absence of such structures, to neighboring Municipalities, to carry out basic sports activities exclusively outdoors, in compliance with the rules of social distancing and without any gathering.
Maintain two meters of distance if engaging in a sport or exercise and one meter of distance for any other activity.
Ski lifts are closed until at least 27 March 2021. Additional rules regarding ski lifts may be issued at that time.
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), or return home.
Exceptions
Travel to private dwellings other than one's own are not allowed, unless they are due to work, necessity or health reasons.
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.
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.
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 truthfulness of the self-declarations is subject to subsequent checks, and false declaration constitutes a crime.
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,
Stores that sell food and basic necessities can remain open. This includes newsstands, tobacconists, pharmacies and para-pharmacies.
Personal services are suspended
Barbers, hairdressers, dry cleaners, and laundry facilities.
CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT Museums are closed, but libraries can be accessed by reservation.
SCHOOLS No change from Yellow. See rules for Yellow regions above
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).
Parents and caretakers may have a child with them when exercising individually, and may access parks with their 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.
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.