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Health care is urging a national lockdown similar to that of spring, after the daily number of cases exceeded 19,000 on Friday and a night curfew has already been imposed in six regions, the MTI writes.
Giuseppe Conte The prime minister said further adjustments will be made if necessary, including on Monday. “We want to avoid the stagnation of the economy and education and the closure of the country at all costs,” Conte emphasized. Previously, the head of government set the number of cases at twenty thousand per day as the threshold at which a partial or national curfew restriction could be imposed twenty-four hours a day. According to press reports, the government will wait until the end to apply this.
Italy is considering an increase in the spread of the epidemic in Spain and France and wants to stop the further jump in the epidemic curve with precautionary measures. The tightening introduced as of October 13, including a night curfew, will remain in effect until November 13.
Who says the government is in a hurry?
The opposition Giorgia Meloni, the president of the Italian Brothers of the Right (FdI) said that the government “is in a hurry because it is not prepared for another wave in health, education or transport.” In the province of Lazio around Rome, the curfew will come into effect from midnight on Friday until five in the morning, but the most visited squares and streets of the capital will be closed from nine. Campania, Calabria, Piedmont and Sardinia have also introduced a night curfew. In Lombardy, a night curfew was introduced on Thursday.
Those who urge closure
Hundreds of Italian scientists, including doctors, have called for “drastic measures” in an open letter because they believe that otherwise the country will not prevent mass deaths.
Vincenzo De Luca the governor of Campania, who at the same time prohibited movement within the province at the same time as the night curfew, urged a national closure with an immediate stop of traffic between the provinces. But Luca has stated that if the government does not act, it will automatically close Campania.
We are one step away from tragedy, I don’t want a line of military trucks in Naples to transport the dead.
He said, referring to the city of Bergamo, where in the spring there was not enough space in crematoria and the armed forces had to transport the dead to other cities.
Top image: The first coronavirus-infected patient arrives at the reopened Fiera Milano shopping center installed in a temporary camp hospital in Milan on October 23, 2020. MTI / EPA / Matteo Corner
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