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Cecilia Fabiano / LaPresse via AP
Last night episodes broke out in central Rome, where dozens of far-right protesters protesting the curfew in Rome, Milan and Naples clashed with the police.
The approximately 200 protesters, belonging to the neo-fascist organization Forza Nuova, waited until one minute before midnight – when the curfew begins – to launch fireworks in the colors of the Italian flag, put on hoods, throw objects and flares. but also fire in garbage cans.
Seven protesters were arrested and two policemen were injured, according to the newspaper La Repubblica.
Similar incidents took place on Friday night in Naples.
Speech Conte with new measures
Today, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is expected to address the people through a sermon in order to announce new stricter measures to curb the spread of the virus.
According to the Italian press, the Prime Minister is expected to announce that from now on restaurants, bars, patisseries and ice cream parlors (ice cream parlors) will close at 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday, while restaurants will only be able to operate until 8 p.m. in the morning due to intense disagreements. they have been expressed by the regions.
The new measures are expected to include a suspension for gyms and swimming pools.
Also, citizens will not be able to go to cinemas and theaters even with a low occupancy rate.
Concerts and all performances, indoors and outdoors, are also suspended.
For schools, the continuation of courses with physical presence is preferred for primary and secondary education, while they consider distance education at a rate of 75% for higher education.
Piedmont and Sicily will also impose a traffic ban for a few hours starting tomorrow, which other regions can follow suit unless the government takes action at the national level.
Case record
Yesterday, the Italian health authorities announced a new registry of negative cases with about 20,000 new diagnoses of Sars-Cov2.
In total, the country has more than 500,000 infections and 37,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
In the areas with the highest incidence, 4,956 were recorded in Lombardy in the last 24 hours, 1,718 in Campania with the capital, 1,729 in Veneto, 1,548 in Piedmont with the capital Turin and 1,726 in the central region of Tuscany.
Hospitals are at their limits
Yesterday the Italian doctors who deal with emergencies sent an emergency signal, indicating that the respective hospital units are crowded, full of patients with coronavirus.
Italian scientists add that hospital wards are full and Covid-19 patients are even “parked” in emergency corridors for five days.
Other patients wait hours in first aid units, until a doctor can examine them, while at the same time, there is again a shortage of nurses and doctors, to adequately treat the entire condition.
“We can’t take it anymore,” said Salvatore Manca, president of the Italian emergency department.
