Italy extends coronavirus lockdown to entire country as new situations surge
11 March, 2020
The complete of Italy will be positioned under lockdown until the following month, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, within an unprecedented and sudden new try to beat coronavirus in Europe’s worst-affected country.
Conte told reporters that methods introduced just two times ago in much of the north were no more enough after a jump in deaths linked with the highly infectious disease, and said the complete nation had to create sacrifices to avoid its spread.
“The proper decision today is to remain at home. Our future and the continuing future of Italy is normally inside our hands. These hands need to be more sensible today than ever before,” Conte said, adding that the norms were to come into force on Tuesday.
Italy’s 60 million people would only have the ability to travel for work, medical reasons or emergencies until April 3. All academic institutions and universities, which were closed nationwide last week until March 15, wouldn't normally reopen before the following month.
Conte said all outdoor consumer gatherings will be forbidden and announced that all sports events, including leading flight Serie A sports matches, will be suspended, throwing the closely watched championship into disarray.
“We don’t have any time. The quantities are showing that there's been a significant growth in infections, persons in intensive health care and deaths,” he said in a somber address. “Our habits have to change right nowadays. We must give things up for Italy.”
7 prisoners dead on riots
ROME (Reuters) - Seven prisoners have died as riots pass on through crowded jails throughout Italy over measures imposed to contain the coronavirus.
Inmates, many angered by restrictions on family members visits, went on the rampage and began fires from Sunday into Monday, authorities explained. In one prison, inmates took guards hostage and in another some escaped.
By Monday afternoon, violence that started in the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy had spread south, hitting more than 25 penitentiaries nationwide.
The biggest rebellion began on Sunday in a prison in the northern town of Modena.
Three prisoners died there, and another four in prisons where these were moved after the violence began, a prison administration official at the justice ministry said.
Some died from overdoses of medicines that they had stolen from prison treatment centers, a justice ministry supply said, without giving details on what had caused the other fatalities.
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