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The situation in Italy remains marginal. The spread of the pandemic is of great concern at a time when various social groups are mobilizing against “traffic bans and closures.”
The number of cases has exceeded 17,000 in the last 24 hours in Italy, while the death toll is 141. The number of intensive care units is 1,284 (76 more than yesterday). The regions with the highest number of cases are Lombardy (3,570), Tuscany (2,171) and Campania (1981).
And the social tension is increasing
Meanwhile, the restrictive measures have caused great unrest in society. The protests are organized in squares from Catania to Turin. Merchants, restaurants, athletes and businessmen, organizations and neo-fascist movements ready to demonstrate in many Italian cities.
Mayors
“In the coming weeks we are in danger of widening the gap in society, samples of which we have already seen. “The mayors are taking this into account and will do everything possible to maintain the cohesion of society and eliminate the sources of violent reactions,” said the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro.
Naples
After the first demonstrations of the weekend, people are organizing again for tonight in Naples, through Facebook. “You close us, you will pay us” is the central motto of the flyers that invite people to gather in a central square. The same slogan prevailed at Friday’s rally, before ending with incidents in which containers caught fire and clashes broke out with security forces.
Turin
Turin is also on high alert, where tonight a “popular protest” is organized in two squares against “the dictatorship, the prohibition of traffic and the confinement.” The information circulating in the media speaks of a dangerous mix of protesters and anarchists and the extreme right. Meanwhile, restaurant owners, who work in bars and cafes, hung their own protest on the walls of their shops: “They force us to close at 6, but we also have the right to a future.” In the morning, the taxi drivers also took to the streets because, according to their unions, “their work depends directly on whether the shops are open or not.”
