However, due to the economic damage, there will not be a complete shutdown for the time being in a country severely affected by the first wave of the coronavirus.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

In Italy, cinemas, swimming pools and gyms will be closed starting Monday and the measures are expected to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Cafes and restaurants must close at 6 pm, but shops can remain open. Most high school classes are held online.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said he does not want to repeat the March and April full closures due to economic damage.

In many cities, however, violent clashes have already broken out over access restrictions. Part of central Rome became a veritable street battlefield after far-right groups protested against the measures Sunday night.

A far-right movement called New Force protested in Piazza del Popolo against the “health dictatorship” and the curfew in Rome from midnight to five in the morning. The protesters, dressed from head to toe in black, covering their faces, fired green, white and red fireworks at exactly midnight and then attacked the police. Smoke and paper bombs were thrown, vehicles were damaged, street clashes lasted more than an hour and spread to various districts of the city, where youths attacked police officers who blocked the streets with restrictions or threw scooters at them.

Ten protesters were arrested and several policemen were injured.

A demonstration against restrictions due to the epidemic also ended in a clash with police officers in Naples on Friday.

The Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorgese, has recognized that a “difficult autumn” is promising. However, in his previous statements he highlighted that they were deliberately violent organized movements that “had nothing to do with the civil protest over the difficult economic situation, a legitimate expression of the concerns of employers and workers. Lamorgese said that no “normal people” took to the streets.

The curve of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy is currently twenty thousand newly identified infected people per day, with one hundred and fifty deaths a day. According to the authorities, a greater adjustment will prevent these figures from increasing to two or three times in the Christmas period. Medical care is urging an immediate and nationwide shutdown, expressing that patients left without ambulances are already being placed in ambulances at various hospitals.

(Cover image: Protesters and police clash in a demonstration against the imposed curfew in Naples, Italy, on October 23, 2020.)



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In Italy, the number of infected has increased considerably, but so has the number of tests.


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The second wave of the epidemic will not abate, according to epidemic data provided by Corriere.

In one day, 16,000 new infections were found in Italy


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