The Sauze d’Oulx station, near Turin, at the stop on 20 last December (illustration) – Norberto Maccagno / Pacific Press /
The Italy has postponed this Saturday the opening of its ski resorts at 18 January, the regional authorities having requested more time. “The conditions are not met for an opening of the installations on January 7”, estimated the regional authorities, quoted in the decree signed this Saturday by the Italian Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, pushing back the date of opening of the stations.
The start of the vaccination against Covid – 18 in Italy intervened last Sunday after the country reconfigured itself, just before Christmas , to avoid an explosion of contaminations during the holidays and repel the specter of a third wave of coronavirus , feared by caregivers. The country, which recorded this Saturday 9. 112 new cases and 310 dead, hopes to continue the vaccination campaign in January with 470. injections planned every week.
France had, like the Italy, considered a possible opening of the ski lifts in the stations from January 7, but the government spokesman Gabriel Attal showered the hopes of the sector on Wednesday, indicating that an opening on that date was “unlikely” because of the level contamination still high. The Savoie Mont Blanc Agency , representative 24 ski resorts of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, “demanded” Thursday from the government a date for the opening of the winter sports season .