Italy heads for lockdown as coronavirus spreads
The Italian government is planning to place large parts of the country's north in lackdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 as the number of cases near 6,000, with more than 230 dead. – EPA pic, March 8, 2020.
ITALY’S government plans to place large parts of the north in coronavirus lockdown as Italian deaths soared past 200 yesterday and the Vatican announced Pope Francis’s Angelus prayer would be livestreamed. In an unprecedented move echoing China’s shutdown of its Hubei province at the start of global outbreak, a draft government plan obtained by an Italian newspaper said Italy intends to quarantine the entire Lombardy region around Milan, as well as tourist magnet Venice, Parma and Rimini, in northern Italy.
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