Italians debated Sunday their first cautious steps out of a coronavirus lockdown that has left an estimated half of the working population seeking ...
Italy is full of rumours and speculation about when people will finally be allowed to walk the streets freely for the first time since early March AFP/Alberto PIZZOLIROME, ITALY: Italians debated Sunday their first cautious steps out of a coronavirus lockdown that has left an estimated half of the working population seeking government support.
The growing sense that weeks of confinement were ending forced an unnamed source in Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's office to tell media that"nothing will change".But some officials seem to think that extending the strictest lockdown measures beyond their May 3 deadline might simply not work. Conte gave little of the game away in one of his characteristic late-night Facebook posts on Saturday.
The heads of Milan's Lombardy and Venice's Veneto regions have both warned that they might soon have to begin reopening businesses on their own. The Confindustria employers' federation said 97.2 per cent of companies have reported losses from the shutdown - and 47.3 per cent"very serious" ones. package have already been spent.
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