ROME, April 30 — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Thursday criticised regional chiefs for defying the government and lifting lockdown measures early, saying it risked undoing efforts to prevent a second coronavirus wave. He also rebutted opposition accusations that he was robbing Italians of...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Genoa, Italy, April 28, 2020. —Reuters pic
Regions south of Rome have suffered relatively few deaths from Covid-19 and local officials have been among the most vocal opponents of the two-month shutdown. “We cannot allow the efforts made to be in vain because of rashness at this delicate stage. Moving from the policy of ‘let’s close everything’ to ‘let’s reopen everything’, would risk irreversibly compromising these efforts,” Conte said.
Conte’s speech to the lower house was delayed after opposition members complained that the prime minister was not wearing a mask.
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