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The Italian government announces the entry into partial quarantine. Nighttime traffic will be banned, shopping centers will be closed on weekends, and high school students will learn online.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced this Monday in the Rome Chamber of Deputies that the government will ban night traffic to limit the spread of the coronavirus, reports dpa, cited by Agerpres.
Restrictions in force in Italy
Other measures with the same purpose are the closure of museums, the closure of shopping centers on weekends and the introduction of distance and secondary education. The number of passengers on public transport will be further reduced and, in many cases, travel between regions will be restricted. The prime minister added that local measures will also be applied in areas with a particularly high number of cases.
Conte did not specify the hours between which it will be prohibited to leave the house, but before the speech in parliament, Francesca Puglisi, secretary of state in the Ministry of Labor, declared for the SkyTH24 news channel that the ban will begin at 9:00 p.m.
More than 31,000 new cases of Covid in Italy in 24 hours
On Saturday, more than 31,000 new cases of coronavirus infection were reported in Italy in 24 hours and almost 300 deaths, in a population of around 60 million. On Sunday, the day when there are usually fewer cases due to reduced testing capacity, there were almost 30,000 cases and more than 200 deaths.
Europe is slowly returning to quarantine. The first European country to exceed one million cases, Spain, has already imposed drastic measures. France has also exceeded this psychological threshold, while in Germany the death toll has exceeded 10,000 deaths. And in Belgium, a total blockade has already been imposed and family visits have been banned. While the World Health Organization warns: we are in a dangerous moment.
Editing: Alexandra Andronie
