Posted on 03/09/2020 4:16:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The Italian PM Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday that special measures will be imposed across the whole country including travel restrictions and a ban on gatherings in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus (Paywall Free).
The measures had initially been imposed on certain regions in the north like Lombardy which has seen the biggest outbreak of the virus.
But on Monday evening, after it was announced the death toll had risen by 97 to 463, the PM said the measures would be imposed nationwide.
Those measures include banning all public gatherings and stopping travel other than for work and emergencies.
Conte said the measures, which will affect 60 million people, were needed to protect the country's most vulnerable and people should now stay at home, Reuters news agency said. The decree would come into force on Tuesday morning.
All sporting events will be suspended including Italy's Serie A football league.
"I am going to sign a decree that can be summarised as follows: I stay at home," Conte announced in a dramatic evening television address.
"The whole of Italy will become a protected zone," he said.
Travel in and out of the country as well as movement between cities will be restricted.
But it was not immediately clear how all these measures will be imposed.
Trains and numerous flights continued to operate into and out of Milan on Monday despite the earlier set of restrictions for its Lombardy region.
The government had already moved to close schools and universities across the country as well as cinemas, theatres and gyms.
Another 1,897 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, Italy's Civil Protection Department announced on Monday evening, bringing the total number of people confirmed to have contracted the new virus since the outbreak began to 9,172.
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Posted for only the third time. Give it a rest.
Closing their borders? RACIST!!!
Thank you.
NO lingerie foosball?
Unless the race, ages and underlying medical conditions of those affected are released, the numbers alone mean little in trying to understand this pathogen. When the diagnostic kits are widely available it will be shown that the virus has infected many but relatively few are becoming seriously ill or dying. The CDC and WHO have this data but they are not releasing it. The data may be very politically incorrect and explosive.
We would have done ourselves a favor if we had treated air travel from Italy the same as from China.
It has 95.35% more fatalities than the second place nation, and 8.7358
times more deaths than the third place nation.
That third place nation, is South Korea.
At 11:13 PST Italy had declared 9,172 cases to South Korea's 7,478.
That's not enough to account for this massive fatality discrepancy.
It almost sounds as if Italy is treating this disease with something
that is costing lives.
Fake news, hoax
Lot of Chinese in Italy.
Would be interesting to learn the racial component of those lost lives.
Has anyone seen the ages of the victims? I am curious if the virus strikes mainly seniors.
Was in Italy last September, there were a lot of Chinese tourists in both Rome and Florence.
Italy has the 5th highest median age at 46.5 years (2018 estimate)
The US is 61st with a median age of 38.5 tears. (2018 estimate)
Our median age is 8 years younger than theirs.
That might impact the numbers - they are an older population.
I can't comment on the validly of her statement, but this is her claim.
[Has anyone seen the ages of the victims? I am curious if the virus strikes mainly seniors.]
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
If I was conspiracy-minded I would say that this virus was designed to save the social security system.
If you look at China’s data, things are improving rapidly. I haven’t heard much lately about China from media panic mongers.
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