ITALY - Bergamo
‘A generation has died’: Italian province struggles to bury its coronavirus dead
In Bergamo, a province of 1.2 million people in the Lombardy region, where 1,640 of the total deaths in the country have taken place, 3,993 people had contracted the virus by Tuesday. The death toll across the province is unclear, but CFB, the area’s largest funeral director, has carried out almost 600 burials or cremations since 1 March.
“In a normal month we would do about 120,” said Antonio Ricciardi, the president of CFB. “A generation has died in just over two weeks. We’ve never seen anything like this and it just makes you cry.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/generation-died-italian-province-struggles-050044364.html
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Italian army moves coronavirus dead from overwhelmed town
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy ordered the army to move bodies from a northern town at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak where funeral services have been overwhelmed as the government prepared to prolong emergency lockdown measures across the country.
Video shot by local people in Bergamo, northeast of Milan, and shown on the website of the local newspaper Eco di Bergamo, showed a long column of military trucks driving through the streets overnight and removing coffins from the town’s cemetery.
An army spokesman confirmed on Thursday that 15 trucks and 50 soldiers had been deployed to move bodies to neighbouring provinces. Earlier local authorities in Bergamo had appealed for help with cremations after they had overwhelmed its crematorium
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/italy-set-prolong-anti-coronavirus-084729553.html
AUSTRALIA - TRAVEL BAN
Australia will ban any non-citizens from entering the country from tomorrow night to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that from 9pm AEDT on Friday, March 20, anyone who is not an Australian citizen or resident will be barred from entering the country.