Schools are reopening in Ravenna, although not the high schools. It's a small sign of returning to normalcy for one of the cities hardest hit by the terrible flooding in Emilia-Romagna. More generally, yesterday at 12 noon the number of people who had to leave their homes because of the flooding was down by more than 3,200: their number was 23,081 (less than 13,000 in two days), most of them, 16,445, in the Ravenna area, then 4,462 in the province of Forlì-Cesena and 2,174 in the Bologna area. There remain 43 municipalities affected by flooding and, on the hydrogeological instability side, at least a thousand landslides are occurring, of which about 305 are more significant concentrated in 54 municipalities. The government's first measures will arrive today: "Tomorrow (today, ed.) we will be in Rome to meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi, together with Emilia-Romagna's economic and social representatives, to illustrate the proposals of the entire regional system. In fact, we have defined a document shared with business associations and trade unions, professions and banking institutions, the Third Sector and the organizations that signed with us the Pact for Work and Climate," Governor Stefano Bonaccini wrote on social media yesterday. Among the shared proposals are those to support affected individuals, businesses and facilities and the appointment of an extraordinary Commissioner for reconstruction, based on the experience gained following the 2012 earthquake.
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