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The protesters threw objects at the police and set the trash cans on fire, while the police responded by using tear gas against the protesters.
The demonstrations are the first of their kind in Italy since the corona pandemic began 8 months ago and are a direct result of Campania’s decision to close the region to control the infection. All schools in Naples and the rest of Campania have already been closed and a curfew has been imposed after 11 pm.
The number of infections has multiplied by seven
The number of new cases of infection per day in Italy has increased sevenfold since the beginning of October and rose to just over 19,000 on Friday, raising fears that the situation is about to spiral out of control.
Deaths have also increased, although not at the same rate. On Friday, 91 new deaths were reported, 47 fewer than the day before and much less than when the infection was at its worst in March and April, when a maximum of just over 900 deaths per day were reported. In total, almost half a million people have been infected in Italy and 37,000 have died.
The president wants to avoid new closures to save the economy
Italian President Giuseppe Conte has said he wants to avoid shutting down the country once again so as not to jeopardize the already fragile Italian economy, but Italian law gives regional leaders the opportunity to impose their own closures and several regions are now taking the lead. matter in your own hands.
– Current information on infection means that all partial measures are ineffective. We have to shut down everything except those that produce and transport the necessary goods, Campania regional president Vincenzo De Luca said in a post on Facebook.
– We need to make one last effort to get things under control. We need to shut everything down for a month, 40 days, he continued.
Lombardy, which includes the Italian financial center of Milan, has also introduced its own restrictions in the form of a night curfew.
