Government: acts on Covid consequences are "current affairs"

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 26 - All "urgent acts - including legislative, regulatory and administrative documents - necessary to deal with the epidemiological emergency from Covid 19 and any related consequence" are also to be considered 'handling of current affairs'. This is the provision of the directive of the Presidency of the Council sent to the ministers, deputy ministers and undersecretaries of state in which the limits of the government's action are outlined. Thus, the text also seems to open up to the possibility that the government in dealing with the current affaricorrenti could enact the Ristori 5 decree to help the categories in economic difficulty due to the pandemic. (HANDLE).