The Mediterranean country's toll reached 3,405 after 427 new deaths. FMTNews Covid19
Workers tend to patients in an emergency structure set up at a hospital in Brescia.
All of Italy’s fatalities came over a chaotic four-week span that began with only a smattering of cases around Milan and eventually led to the entire nation living through its deadliest disaster in generations.Spain had 767 deaths and France 264 when Italy’s toll was released.Army trucks delivered new freshly-made coffins Thursday to a cemetery in the northern Italian city of Bergamo that suddenly finds itself at the global heart of the pandemic.
A poll published in the daily La Repubblica found that 47% viewed the closure of most businesses and all schools and public institutions “positively”.Some of Conte’s strictest measures – such as the closure of all shops except for grocery stores and pharmacies – had been due to expire next Wednesday.“All the measures we have taken, both the ones that closed a lot of the country’s businesses and the ones that restricted people’s movement, can only be extended,” Conte said.
Police in Rome read periodic instructions out of megaphones for everyone to “stay home and maintain distance” from each other.The northern region of Emilia-Romagna took the extra step of banning jogging and walks – exercise that the national government in Rome had encouraged for health reasons.
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