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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Oh,my! That is scary for all seniors.
So glad I pit all my affairs in order two years ago.
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will...estate...funeral plans...POAs
“NO lingerie foosball?”
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Interesting.
Italy had their first case 11 days before we did.
Is that what we’ll see in two weeks?
China is lying.
Thanks for your sane and sensible analysis.
One of the first questions in my mind — how many of the victims, in whatever country, are expatriate Chinese?
It does appear that Asians are more susceptible than whites.
The Italians imported a lot of cheap, chinese immigrants to work the textile factories for the luxury brands in order to have that ‘Made in Italy’ label and keep gov’t subsidies...
they are reaping the fruits of this decision now
they just cancelled the calcio, so you know the China-virus is bad and out of control.
I guess when Everybody in Italy starts running out of food, the lights go out, and the water turns off they’ll have to lift the quarantine.
I expect that they’re going to have to let people do what they have to do and just take care of everyone who gets sick.
Thanks for the mention Pete. That was interesting.
What she may be referencing is the public’s reaction to it.
I can see that being true.
How deep did you dig this pit?
I guess the Pope won’t be visiting anywhere soon! LOL!
“ It almost sounds as if Italy is treating this disease with something
that is costing lives. ”
Maybe the Mafia is using this as an opportunity to settle some old scores.
Actually, you want them to be seriously ill or dying, because that way they aren't wandering around at liberty and infecting thousands of other people without knowing it.
I did the right thing and started panicking today, running around for about an hour like a chicken with its head cut off. At my age an hour is about all I can manage, but by this time next week I hope to be up to ninety minutes.
No doubt China has been lying all along. I wouldn’t assume that they increased their rate of lying a hundred fold over the last 10 days though. I’m just looking at the data you posted.
Everything you said: Yes.
6 feet...the usual. ;)
Well, I didn’t see it the first 2 times, and I suspect others didn’t. So perhaps you could give it a rest.
Another thought: if COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab as a failed vaccine experiment, is it possible more than one experimental strain was released, and Italy got the nastier version?
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